Posted on Apr 29, 2021
NRA's Wayne LaPierre elephant hunt video sparks outrage
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Footage has emerged of the head of the US National Rifle Association (NRA) repeatedly shooting an elephant in Botswana, sparking outrage.
First published by the New Yorker and The Trace on Tuesday, the 2013 video shows Wayne LaPierre firing at the animal from point-blank range.
After Mr LaPierre struggles to kill it, another hunter takes the fatal shot.
It has led to an outcry from animal rights groups and questions about Mr LaPierre's bungled efforts.
At the time it was not illegal to hunt elephants in Botswana, though it has since been restricted. In November last year the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Endangered Species listed the species of elephant killed as endangered.
Ingrid Newkirk, president of animal rights group Peta condemned the footage and called for Congress to cut ties with the NRA.
"Behind the NRA's macho posturing are scared little men who pay tens of thousands of dollars for someone else to track elephants so that they can shoot them ineptly at close range," she said in a statement.
But the NRA has defended the footage. Spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said it was "fully permitted and conducted in accordance with all rules and regulations" and said such hunts benefit "the local community and habitat".
First published by the New Yorker and The Trace on Tuesday, the 2013 video shows Wayne LaPierre firing at the animal from point-blank range.
After Mr LaPierre struggles to kill it, another hunter takes the fatal shot.
It has led to an outcry from animal rights groups and questions about Mr LaPierre's bungled efforts.
At the time it was not illegal to hunt elephants in Botswana, though it has since been restricted. In November last year the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Endangered Species listed the species of elephant killed as endangered.
Ingrid Newkirk, president of animal rights group Peta condemned the footage and called for Congress to cut ties with the NRA.
"Behind the NRA's macho posturing are scared little men who pay tens of thousands of dollars for someone else to track elephants so that they can shoot them ineptly at close range," she said in a statement.
But the NRA has defended the footage. Spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said it was "fully permitted and conducted in accordance with all rules and regulations" and said such hunts benefit "the local community and habitat".
NRA's Wayne LaPierre elephant hunt video sparks outrage
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Over populations of elephants will devastate an environment in fairly short order. You can pay game control people to shoot the excess beasts, or sell safaris at about $50,000 a pop. Most of that money goes to the game service to help pay for anti poaching efforts, or into the local communities through the pay received by all the safari workers. Further, the villages for miles around share several tons of meat from the kill. If poachers get the animal, it usually is rotten before found.
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Sgt Jim Belanus
I'm with you on this, not just anyone can get one , just like deer hunting, no license don't shot
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He needs to spend more time @ the range and less time politicking --- then again, a clean kill would still spark "outrage"
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1SG Steven Imerman
Herbivores tend to go into shock when badly injured. That looked ugly, and indeed was not what anyone wanted, but the elephant probably felt little or no pain after the first hit. After all, he was being shot with a real elephant gun.
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Anti Hunters will always complain about Hunting, That Elephant will FEED Hundreds of Local People in the Local Village Since He Cannot Bring any Meat Back to the U.S. but the LIBS are Mad Because They Didn’t have to Spend any of OUR Taxpayers MONEY to Feed The Village.
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