Video of NRA executive Wayne LaPierre hunting elephants sparks outrage

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The video shows guides tracking down an African savanna elephant for LaPierre, who then shoots and wounds it.

A general view of elephants grazing at Kimana Sanctuary in Kimana, Kenya, March 2, 2021."It’s sickening to see LaPierre’s brutal, clumsy slaughter of this beautiful creature. No animal should suffer like this," Tanya Sanerib, international legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.

"It was sickening to watch LaPierre’s elephant slaughter and the suffering he caused by his sloppy and cruel attack on this beautiful animal," Block said."This hunt occurred during the height of the elephant poaching crisis and makes horribly clear how evil this industry is: so much suffering and death for the sake of bragging rights and a trophy -- pieces and parts of these magnificent creatures.

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk urged"every member of Congress to watch this video" and"have the courage to reject NRA money." "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," Newkirk said.

 

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Horrible people. Should be ashamed!

I hate this fucking prick.

He is the very worst sort of person. Elephants? They have intellect, form relationships and have feelings. More so than LaPierre.

He couldn't hit an elephant with an AK 47?

What a POS 🤦‍♂️🙄

LaPierre. What a disgusting human specimen.

That is the way these hunters operate. They stay in luxury hotels, move in air-conditioned SUV and have guides arrange the killing for them without taking the slightest risk. They are cowards to the core.

Hmmmm white people more outraged from an animal being killed than when a black person gets killed, how shocking

It was difficult to watch...

You're not a big man if shoot and kill a slow moving animal.......and on top of it if you miss and only wound the animal you're a nobody (being polite)..........

Abusers should be in jail. And you’re looking at one. His wife too.

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