Mob rule - ain’t it great?
Beat mt to it.
So did they target Robert Mugabe who dined on baby elephant for his 91st birthday?
More outrage over this than babies being harvested.
With a bow and arrow - nicely done.
I wish these same people who are against the killing of this lion felt the same way about the unborn. Kill a lion, death threats are made against you, murder innocent babies in the womb, rip out their body parts for profit, not a peep
This one isn’t a hunter, like the pp “doctors” he is just a killer.
Trump’s sons have gone big game hunting in Africa. Wait for the subject to pop up again now that this is in the news.
At least is wasn’t Clarence, the cross-eyed lion, whom everybody loved!
Never seen a picture of an elephant slaughtered for nothing more than a couple pieces of tooth that is revered by rich Chinese?
Have they never seen the pic of human fetus parts, displayed in a petri dish, with the voice-over bidding for the parts?
Damn fools!
If you're going to vent righteous indignation, find a REAL cause!
I've visited national parks in both Kenya and Tanzania.I've also been aware for years of the serious problem with poachers...elephants,lions and rhinos,particularly...that these countries have and *have * had.Just last fall visiting several parks in Kenya we saw armed soldiers everywhere.I would take that as a strong hint if I was a poacher...or even a hunter.
If this dentist *truly* believed that he was within the laws of Zimbabwe to do what he did then one could argue that he's blameless...legally *and* morally.Perhaps he was duped by con artists...even con artists working for the government.It's not as if Zimbabwe is widely recognized to be a stable,civilized nation populated solely by (and governed by) righteous folks!
Humans are not an endangered species.
Personally, I don’t care that leftists abort their babies. On their conscience, not mine. Financially, we can’t support everyone on welfare.
I think that I and many others here can be upset at both this sad episode in Africa and with Planned Parenthood (and certainly the overall culture of medically unnecessary abortions as well). However, I would also like to see the silent partner in what took place with this dentist exposed as well, ie the most likely very corrupt culture involving the local authorities and poaching in Africa. It does not take much imagination to visualize this sort of thing taking place with park officials and others being bribed with piles of money so that lions, rhinos, elephants, and other such species be taken for their ivory or skins, etc. Exposing and suffocating this sort of thing could be the important good that comes out of Cecil’s senseless killing.
While I wish the man had gone hunting with a camera instead of a crossbow, and largely blame his guides and the gamekeeper (how was the dentist to know it was “Clarence”?), I am appalled by the widespread calls for his murder. What makes this OK (regardless of other contemporary comparisons)?
I’m guessing the free market will take care of his practice (patients who abhor hunting will leave, those who don’t will stay).
Once you cross the line and start threatening death because somebody did something you don’t approve of, that was perfectly legal, you have forfeited your gravitas and credibility. This is the same mentality that Earth First exhibits, while they blow up office buildings of scientists who use vivisection.
Yep people get more outraged at killing an animal than for dead babies and people killed by ISIS.
They're out there.
But this dentist could have just used that $50K for penile enlargement.
So fine, what I think about all this (in no particular order:
Safari hunting brings a lot of money to local African economies and it is racist, yes I said it, racist to think that African countries cannot manage their game species themselves WITHOUT YOUR INPUT.
Zimbabwe is a very, very poor country, mostly because they are communists. They are ranked 175 in economic freedom. Botswana is ranked 36. If I had the money to safari hunt (which I don’t) I would hunt in Botswana.
Did you read the part about the lion having to be killed with a rifle 40 hours after initially being shot? This is, I’m sure, not typical, but several hours does seem to be typical for bow hunting. This leads me to question how ethical bow hunting is. Is it ethical to wound an animal and track him for hours when you have the technology to kill him instantly, entirely for the challenge of it? I know lots of bow hunters. they seem to be nice enough guys. I’m certainly not saying it should be illegal or anything. But, for myself, I would rather use appropriate technologies that are available to me. I would prefer to hunt with a black colored semi automatic rifle, of an appropriate caliber, with pistol a grip, scope and a silencer the day after using an RPV to spot the game. But that’s just me.
I find the “cowardly” comments very amusing. Some keyboard commando who is afraid to eat non organic bananas because of the pesticides is concerned whether hunting lions WITH A BOW is sufficiently dangerous to be morally acceptable. I think that’s funny.