Saturday, January 11, 2014

Kill a Black Rhino ... for the Fun of It

The Dallas Safari Club is raffling off the opportunity to go to Africa to kill a black rhino.  In a time that's awash in cynical, disingenuous crap from public speakers, the Dallas Safari Club may have set a new standard by saying the members do this for the sake of conservation.  (CNN:  Debate over Dallas Safari Club auctioning black rhino hunting permit)

The Club says they will collect between $250,000 and $1,000,000 and they will send all of this money to the Namibian government to be used for conservation.  Here's a hot tip from the Necromancer:  collect the money and send it without killing the rhino thus guaranteeing at least one animal is saved.

Objection to this doesn't just come from tree huggers but rather from anyone with even the slightest modicum of human decency.  What the Dallas Safari Club proposes isn't hunting.  Whomever 'wins' the raffle will go to wherever they know the black rhinoceros to be, shoot it, and then take the trophy. That anyone could consider this an accomplishment as a hunter or a human is mystifying.

Apparently the Dallas Safari Club has received a number of death threats as a result of their little 'game' and that's a bitch, isn't it.  What do you know that it really sucks to be hunted.  Who knew.

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