I am shocked--shocked!--that somebody went trophy hunting in Africa! What an outrage!
Piers Morgan is running a Twitter feed on the issue that might interest some of the posters here.
Hunting big game in Africa is one thing, killing a lion is completely unnecessary and stupid. Kill some Antelope or something if you must kill something for your ego.
He was a protected lion, hence the collar. This wasn’t a legitimate safari. It was a crime by any standard.
I don’t think what this guy did can legitimately be called hunting.
Exactly, some issues bring the liberals out in droves on this site.
3000 babies MURDERED in cold blood every day, and no one bats an eyelash- Yet let a hunter bag a trophy and everyone goes mental- natives used to run whole herds of buffalo off of cliffs, there would be so many dead animals that they would rot before the tribes could ‘harvest’ them all. Animals are ‘led to their death ‘ DAILY as they go through a slaughterhouse so that we can go to the supermarket and pick up out juicy porterhouse steak all neatly wrapped up in cellophane and cleaned of all the blood and guts cover it during butchering-
There wasn’t this much outrage when Dr Death- Kermit gosnell was aborting live babies- the left was defending him for crying out loud-
Noone cares to see the truth about supplying food for this country, and how much ‘waste’ and ‘collateral damage’ there is as millions of animals inevitably die of disease and heat, and cramped conditions etc- as ranchers try to keep up with the DEMAND for Yummy beef, lamb, pork etc- Noone says a word because, well, they like a good juicy steak- Yet let a hunter kill a lion and by golly he’s scum and according to some posters here and on twitter, he deserves the same fate- these same people condemning the dentist would themselves bash a squirrel over the head if it got into their house, or a bat, or a rat- they would set traps for mice (or hire orkin to do the dirty work for them), and think nothing of spraying for cockroaches, ants, spiders, fleas or whatever, and think nothing of it, but because a lion ‘looks cuter’ they go into convulsions because someone killed it
Hunter kills a lion after his guide lured it out- oh my, the horror- 3000 CHILDREN are murdered in cold blood every single day- and the outraged animal lovers yawn. Animals in research facilities endure pain for the sake of mankind, butt that’s ok- no one talks about it because by golly we love our mary kay, our underarm deoderants etc- (Note I’m not railing against test animal practices, just noting the hypocrisy of those ‘outraged’ that a lion was killed- outraged to the point of hoping the dentist dies)
Unbelievable- We have drug dealers killing and murdering our kids in the 1000’s., we have ILLEGAL ALIENS murdering our citizens In the 1000’s, we have ILLEGAL ALIENS sucking $500 BILLION dollars away from OUR legal citizens- literally taking food out of the mouths of starving poor kid’s mouths, and we have a president trampling our constitutional rights, We have terrorists sawing off the heads of Christians all around the world, and nobody says a freakin word- yet let a lion get killed by a trophy hunter and the world goes berserk- Psssst, folks, baiting has always been used in lion hunting in Africa- The bait is often dragged around a large area before taking it to a spot to hang it in a tree and a blind is set up for the hunter to shoot from- dragging it around aN area first ensures that the smell of dead bait is spread over large are to draw lions in- And many on this forum thread want this fella to die for doing what is allowed? Wow!
“Helpful hints and tips when hunting the African lion – Hunting the African lion is traditionally done in one of two ways:
One – by baiting. Bait is set up in much the similar fashion to that of lion, excepting that the bait is not all the way up in a tree to make it accessible to the lion. Drags are created and a blind / hide is built soon as the lion starts feeding.”
http://www.huntinginafrica.co.za/more-info/hunting-the-african-big-5/hunting-lion/