See how you just equated shooting a monkey with shooting humans as moraly equivalent? Its not.
But....She did not really even need to justify it as a potential threat if she could see it from her porch. It existed as a threat to her and her children.
The Police were shooting the Monkeys that escaped the crates on the spot something widely reported. It was widely described as an aggressive animal, i.e., dangerous. A lot of people shoot coyotes and prairie dogs that “might become a threat” to people, flocks, or even just their lawns or pasture land. Cows often break their legs in badger or prairie dog holes somewhere in the back pasture, never right up by the barn where its easy to get to them.
That said, she was a good shot. Give her an Annie Oakley award!
“See how you just equated shooting a monkey with shooting humans as moraly equivalent? Its not.”
I didn’t write or even imply moral equivalency of the lives of humans and monkeys. But short of equivalency there remains plenty of room to respect animals lives and avoid harming them out of ignorance, whim, and malevolence. Some people actually view God’s creation as worthy of respect rather than callous exploitation.
Because they are genetically close to humans, Rhesus monkeys are particularly valuable for testing vaccines and treatments that save millions of human lives. Killing them, rather than capturing them, is particularly idiotic, though the idiocy in this case began with the misreporting of the original story, wherein the monkeys were said to be twice their real size, infected with multiple dangerous diseases, and aggressive to humans. I don’t know if these were aggressive, but the size and infection part was false.