Interesting you don’t care about the 50 antelope that were saved from being chased down and killed to be eaten by the said lion?

Well said...You can’t claim conservation when you are taking away the strongest and the healthiest for a goddamn picture or your ugly wall.

And the whole “they pay a lot of money and that supports conservation” thing is hugely exaggerated by the industry. Nature preserves and safari parks in African countries, where people photograph the animals instead of killing them, make more money for conservation. And only a tiny fraction (2-4%, from what I last…

To me it’s the difference between a doctor who performs euthanasia for the purposes of alleviating suffering vs. a bunch of rich people who answer a craigslist add to smother grandma cuz she’s gonna die anyway.

Yeah. There’s nothing to even brag about here. It’s not like this guy can say, “ I went out with nothing but my canteen and a spear and I tracked the lion over several days and engaged in a fierce battle from which I emerged victorious.”

Seriously. If you’re so concerned about overpopulation, come to the Mid-Atlantic region and go deer hunting. Deer aren’t fancy enough, though, I guess.

Yes the controlling population garbage is just people making shit up. These aren’t white-tail deer we’re talking about.

It’s sadly simple: for some people, they just like looking at something that is now dead and saying, “Look! I made that thing dead!”

More like “we keep making the habitat smaller, so we need to kill the ones that wander out of the postage stamp”. Because honestly, a lot of the animals have hugely ranging territories. Just because your conservation area crowds them in, doesn’t mean they are overcrowded.

And you know the animal isn’t going to stuffed and mounted in some weird room full of other dead animals for the trophy hunters to masturbate to.

Yep - the old and sick - NOT a breeder. Jesus.

I wish someone could explain to me what is so fun about killing animals. If you have to kill for food or resources, I get that. But what is so fun about just going out and killing an animal for no reason at all?

And even if they were, the people who should be doing the culling are trained professionals who know exactly which animals need to be culled.

Holy shit, when there was a reddit thread last week about Don Jr.’s hunting of elephants, there were so many people willing to jump to the defense of trophy hunters with the “Yeah but they pay a lot of money and that supports conversation” argument, along with the “It’s necessary to control populations” argument.

It’s not even just ricochets. As someone who did a lot of dumb shit as a kid including playing “see what happens when we shoot it” at my uncle’s property* I can way with confidence that shooting solid object like say, a truck, can produce shrapnel with enough energy to embed itself in wood.

are you joking? I worked for Verizon marking the utility for lines, buried underground or on poles. and we were trained that if the homeowner didnt want us on the property we were to say ok and leave. but it will get marked because in most states, not sure about Florida, anything on sidewalk to curb is called right of…

If you are going to vandalize a truck, I would prefer you do it without firing 18 fucking rounds near me. So yeah, that he used a gun is a major problem for me. Also, the act of damaging the trucks is also but at least is just standard no danger to anyone else asshat. And dumb as hell. I think anyone even moderately…

Those guys are there to do a job. If some dude’s driveway has to be blocked so that I can get back to my tentacle porn, I say fuck ‘em.

They were not blocking his driveway

Never. Seriously.