did they hunt the animal for food?

They're just desperately trying to forget how insignificant they know they really are. Stuff that hole in your soul with an endangered species -- that makes you special!

I just commented on that

Why is it OK to shoot a deer and not an elephant?

@@fatbachelors3922 or they just like the thrill and they are willing to pay to do it.

@@warthunder9155 deer are abundant for starters

Before you "donate your salary" you have to understand why this elephant was shot.

you would be happy if she no scoped??? 😳💀 you are worse than her

no, don’t apologize when it’s the truth.

Game hunting. A sport where the ecosystem gets destroyed in a century. I wonder when people will wake up until it’s too late.

I guess all hunters have a serious illness then.

@@linoleluminum2017 yea, they want to ban high capacity magazines

Don't be sorry, you are just stating fact.

They pretend guns don't increase gun violence... I can believe anything.

Study the way they manage the elephant population and it's actually more humane than the way your food is harvested.

THEY ARE HEARTLESS AND THEY WILL ANSWER TO GOD FOR THIS.

@@LRRPFco52 Incredibly dubious logic aside... If someone was killing my steak because they were psychos who enjoyed it, rather than just a guy doing his job, I would have a problem with that. You can't see the difference?

Bro god gave us strength to do this and provide for ourselves

its called hunting

@@hayden6119 You can call it whatever you like, anyone who shoots an elephant for sport is sick

They aren't defenseless dumbass, they have a large tusk for a reason

@@ammeltman1674 @ammeltman: I haven't heard "dumbass' since I was in third grade. Is that your level of intelligent commentary? Yeah a tusk vs an elephant gun, seems like a fair fight. Now go crawl back to your parents basement where you live.

@@Moodyblues99 ok groomer

If they didn't hunt them they'd be extinct. It's on a property where they carefully maintain the population. Educate yourself before making ignorant comments

@@hayden6119 ignoramus, you must be one of them.

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Humans have hunted for tens of thousands of years. You sit at a meat meal in a nice restaurant and call it beautiful. So try to not play dumb and sensitive.

@@johnsmith1474 . How can you make that comparisson? Did they took the meat with them?! An elephant takes almost two years pregnancies, and many more years to be in breeding age. It is cruel, and so many more things... I guess is useless to point them to you.

Oh I can. This is what gun nuts like this guy do

you know what’s funny? I own guns. I like guns. There’s a sport to good marksmanship. Murdering an animal purely for sport nowadays is a sickness, regardless of your weapon.

It's LaPierre season!

Uh no that's a psychotic thing to think. Even if the humans were doing something wrong (which they weren't) they still have intrinsic value just for being human. Thus saying that they should have died is a despicable thing to say

@@Dave-ih5lr Well defending the slaughter of animals is a little psychotic isn’t it?

@@Dave-ih5lr LaPierre's inherent value as a human being is measured in how much nutritional value he would provide as fertilizer.

@@mangozzz4487 absolutely not. God gave man dominion over the earth and authority over all animals

I know imagine being a full grown adult and walking to a clinic to have someone else cut off the arms and legs, suck the brain out of, then finally crush the skull of the baby that person who walked in created. Just because it’s inconvenient. Imagine people being so offended that this animal had the chance to live, and was killed legally and it’s meat went to the local village to feed people. Imagine being so offended by that but perfectly okay with the baby who never gets a say being murdered. I hope you don’t fall into that category. If you hate both than I can absolutely appreciate your point.

@@phillippropst3825 I don't get it. Does that mean you disapprove of Lapierre torturing an elephant by repeatedly and ineptly shooting it in the head? Not sure if I'm following your argument...

@@phillippropst3825 a fetus you mean. A fetus... not a living being not intelligent life. You're pathetic.

Did you just describe President Burden? I think so.

@@anenemystand5582 Ah the wonderful art of telling yourself you're not killing a human being.

And by expense account Wayne means his members paying dues, which I’m sure they anticipated would be spent on private jets and 3k Italian suits

@@Danielle-gs4uf That's the kind of fella Wayne is.

Just keeping up with BLM leaders I guess.

@@clickclack8081 whataboutism, even if completely made up, still makes you look like an inbred.

@@spike339 Yes pointing out your hypocrisy makes me look inbred. Anymore stupid comments?

No, NRA Members paid millions of dollars for him to take that elephant. And I know 12 year old kids how show better gun handling (both safety and efficiency that this jackwagon. What an embarassment.

because they rationalize , and literally make themselves believe that their "gOd" told the elephant to stand there..

@Tony Euphoria If you aren't vegan then you are exactly like them. You demonstrate the same exact dismissal of basic rights for living sentient beings and outright support their torture and murder.

For no reason? You obviously didn't get the full story. Poor thing you.

By being a gun-nut.

The fact is that God put animals on this earth for the benefit of man. Hunting is a sport that is for man's enjoyment and it also helps by not allowing animals to overpopulate any given area.

The cruelty is due to the poor aim

@@MM98126 Wow elephants can earn that much money? Do they keep it in their trunk?

@Nathan Anderson because this guy is less intelligent than the elephant.

@@MM98126 no

He should take an NRA marksmanship and hunter safety course. They'll probably pay for it.

Sadly everyone seems to be totally against hunting or totally for. I’m on your side on this one. A clean shot is always number one priority for me when hunting and this was video had me cringing

@@rex8958 also a difference between killing a relatively dumb prey animal like a deer with a single shot and filling an extremely intelligent, endangered animal with lead and leaving it to die… elephants can experience intense emotional and mental suffering like humans, deer cannot

I'm sure it's him being "nervous" handling a gun and has nothing to do with the fact that he's in the Sahara, hunting a giant animal, with other giant predators around...

@@lenwe4205 I'd hardly call that a hunt

@@lenwe4205 ahahaha he flew in a private plane, took a caravan of jeeps, was led by guides who literally drew the elephant up and told him where to shoot and someone still had to tell him not to flag the others there.

@@lenwe4205 Sahara?! 😂😂 You do know elephants don't live in the desert, and that there is a difference between the Sahara and a savannah? If not, Google is free.

@indiapale Yeah, but you can get there if you take the trans-Atlantic railroad.

Was thinking the same thing.. Being a steward of the earth..

@Commando Ace if I was extremely rich I would build a reservate with lodges for my other rich friends. Have safaris and try to bound with animals instead of killing. My father lived in Ethiopia 10 years. He also hunted wild boars who came to close to the villages/crops. But the animal was killed fast and was dinner. And yes he also had some close encounters to death when hey got surrounded by hyenas, covered in blood and ran out of ammo. He teached me to shoot but also to respect nature. I never kill an animal when I don’t have to.

GOD PUT MAN IN CHARGE OF TAKING CARE OF THE ANIMALS. GOD LOVES HIS CREATURES AND PEOPLE LIKE THESE WILL BE SORRY🤬

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Well said FL

They're poachers, what did you expect?

@@apergji7104 lol, bunch of uneducated morons chiming in on something they don't understand.

Cows, chickens, and pigs are pretty beautiful too. PIgs have even been shown to have the intelligence of 3 year old human children. But you pay for those animals to suffer and die, don't you? How are you any different that this POS?

@@apergji7104 You obviously don't know what a poacher is idiot

@@whocares110 Excatly i don think they know how conservation works like the fact they need money to conserve and take one animal to pay for 10 more

comic there's a reason for this animals getting shot.

He would miss

I eat chicken and beef for lunch !! yum yum !!

After the dolphin episode this POS stomps on the heads of 4 week old kittens....

What channel? 🍿

The guide had to literally raise the rifle up because there were people in the line of fire.SMDH

@@danapaul3216 He really did look lost. Thought training and experience in hunting elsewhere may have prepared him better to not let the animal suffer and not look so lost wearing that hat. Hope the money spent and meat went to good use in that area.

@@SurfSG999 ...so all of a sudden indigenous people that lived off the land for literally generations need the help of rich white hunters to help feed them? That’s both condescending *and* colonialist...

@@kaikaifilu4873 an insult for suggesting if this majestic animal did have to be hunted that hopefully the meat is used in entirety and money spent is helping the area?

as CEO of the NRA ? weird...

Better use of my money than taxes, at least it’s voluntary.

@@strechinpick Great for you

to relieve their boring, banal lives, and to have a self-fellating narrative to share.

So this isn’t about harvesting meat? Nor about culling sick animals? This was just for bragging rights to boast that they killed an elephant? That’s more than just sick. That’s absolutely disgusting.

@@dericksmith2137 I was a vegetarian for seven years and I really do support hunting. If you're a capable hunter, unlike this shitbucket, it's usually the least cruel and most environmentally friendly way of obtaining meat... But if you're not going to eat the poor creature, why? Just...why? It's pointless.

@@willowmcbee1501 Vegetarians are cowards that don't hold any sort of ethical stance against the unnessary killing of others. Especially those that cannot even so much as speak up for or physically defend themselves. The mental gymnastics people like you go through to say "this barbaric behavior over here is bad but this barbaric behavior over there is okay" is asinine to put it lightly.

Yeah you should have to kill at least 5 animals with a gun before you're allowed to have an opinion on if it's good or bad

What are they going to do with these amazing elephants? They are thrilled to have killed these animals - why?

hunting?

Killing this elephant, is allowing other elephants herds to survive. It’s thinning out the herd. The Botswana government has CERTAIN, OLD elephants to be hunted to do so. You CANT just go out and shoot an elephant, you can’t just pay to shoot an elephant unless their are elderly elephants to do so with. I suggest you look up why trophy hunting is done. I don’t condone it myself but their is a good reason for it.

Surely you mean ‘Go hunting Cheney.’ He’s got a devil with a red hot poker waiting just for him in the next dimension!

@@mikematthews2750 I think what Scott Johnson was getting at was that Cheney shot his hunting partner, so LaPierre should go hunting with Cheney and maybe? ...

@@prependedprepended6606 correct

A psychopath

The Botswana government uses IUCN reports to guide its conservation efforts. But it has pointed out that the increase of its elephant population justifies the decision to allow legal hunting. The sale of the licenses benefit local communities who are affected by the increased range of elephants looking for water, as drought conditions push them into contact with humans, destroying crops and sometimes trampling people, resulting in human casualties. In 2019 the Botswana government lifted a ban on trophy hunting put in place by president Ian Khama in 2014. Botswana has also sold licenses to kill leopards, zebras and buffaloes. Legal hunting is the way to manage animal populations and also provides food for many.

@@sly5999 sadly not many will read your comment

@@jnegrete86 I have to admit that I've left this comment onto a few threads of this chat. Let's hope that the irrationals will get to realise the logic regarding the actual reality of animals populations management.

@@sly5999 I respect you trying to use calm logic here. But have you asked yourself 'Why do humans need to manage nature?' Was it not doing a perfectly good job before we showed up?

That guy was the Head of the NRA.

...that you had to be "guided to" by an expert, because there is no natural reason for you to be here. The whole thing is pathetic.

I wouldn't call a huge animal to be harmless - ever been charged by anything that big or even close to being that big? That elephant didn't perceive a threat it doesn't recognize a firearm.

@@1911GreaterThanALL it was minding its own business I can see shooting one if it's threating a village or something.

It is in botswana. These men must be charged with crimes

Remember, they are VERY SICK PEOPLE.

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Please look up the cost, and the benefits of hunting in Africa.

Some people pay thousands just to get close enough to watch and photograph such a creature, and it's a memory that they cherish and share with many others who get to view the same animal.

The Botswana government uses IUCN reports to guide its conservation efforts. But it has pointed out that the increase of its elephant population justifies the decision to allow legal hunting. The sale of the licenses benefit local communities who are affected by the increased range of elephants looking for water, as drought conditions push them into contact with humans, destroying crops and sometimes trampling people, resulting in human casualties. In 2019 the Botswana government lifted a ban on trophy hunting put in place by president Ian Khama in 2014. Botswana has also sold licenses to kill leopards, zebras and buffaloes. Legal hunting is the way to manage animal populations and also provides food for many.

Now this I agree with

Nailed it

Hemingway was a trash person too.

@@tpjpower Hemingway was a skilled sportsman and a gifted writer.....but you would know nothing of that.

@@crunchfootjim4936 No doubt he was a great writer. But he was also a horrible person.

Easily, you point, then you shoot. Bang. Animal dead.

@@whocares110 when they do the same to you we gonna interview you mom and see if she is proud of your comments and stupidity

@@AngelDavid506 so wait, what you're telling me is that you are going to take me to Africa, turn me in to an elephant, wait until I'm old and shoot me to help protect my elephant brethren? Then you plan to dig up my dead mother and interview her? Sounds good to me, I would rather be shot and dead within minutes than slowly starve to death when I have no more teeth. All jokes aside, maybe you should learn about what's happening before you get all offended over it.

@@whocares110 don't be obtuse, you know exactly what they meant. elephants are intelligent animals and probably hold more braincells than you to be honest. it's clear you have zero respect for the planet, so why should anyone have respect for you.

@@afraidsari all animals are intelligent. Also, thanks for the insult, it's obvious you have no arguement if all you have is insults. Maybe educate yourself on the subject at hand and you will look less foolish when you speak.

yes, yes they are. but somehow they're still rich and powerful. how come ?

Yes, they rumble low because it can be heard by other elephants and animals for miles around. They can even sense the vibrations through their sensitive feet. Every elephant there heard and felt the suffering of this amazing creature.

well stated, kudos

That sound made me sick to my stomach...

Thats the same sound elephants make when the horrible, awful lions (who have no respect for beauty or themselves) kill an elephant.

@@JW-hj8gl Lions don't hunt elephants with guns for sport and trophies - hunting for food is called the cycle of life and is inherently beautiful and full of respect on all fronts. I own several hunting and homesteading equipment for that purpose. Meanwhile, you can keep feeding at the social trough with the rest of the mindless pigs..

the elephant she shot was facing the hunting party because he was guarding the other elephant(s). he was saying "stay there and we have no problem". if he had been confrontational, he would have waved his ears and mock-charged. and the hunters only dare to kill elephants out of a herd because they know they're peaceful and the others will run away rather than fight.

What's even worse is the killing of the defenseless babies in the womb :(

All animals hunters shoot are fairly defenseless. I’ve shot so many deer and not one of them stood up to defend themselves. So boo hoo. Poor you

Do you want the poor African villagers who eat the elephant after us terrible murderers kill it to starve? You need to look at the broader picture. You and the rest of you snow flakes.

Next time I go hunting I’ll be sure to toss the deer a gun so it’s not defenseless

I don’t know man, I was a pretty good cook when I was 3.

@@kencur9690 probably a better shot too

Yeah, the guide did a good job of making his client look good

Elephants are anything but defenseless......

good analogy buddy

Welcome to earth

You're obviously a liar, you are not a hunter at all. This is like when people lie about being native American to try to put more weight behind what they're saying. Stop it.

@@whocares110 You are reacting because you are wrong - very wrong. You know nothing about this hunter you are calling a liar - nothing.

@@wonderingaboutyou6700 no, I'm reacting because a liar is claiming to be something they are not. Actual hunters are aware of how conservation is accomplished. This liar is not.

@Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE! I'm not sure what your getting at here, I never mentioned the capabilities of the guy in the video.

@@jonhall2211 what does that have to do with anything?

Might as well have been shooting elephants in a zoo.

Yk his wife was in it too, don’t stereotype plz. It makes them feel like the empowered assf*cks they are. Gives them something to look down to, shooting poor creatures for fun. “Haha elephant is dead”

Your projection is showing

They are no different than those mass murderers that shoot up schools....

@@GQ2593 yes, such a great hunter to hit a massive target that isting even moving after the guides had to hand over hand her to aim. Such an achievement. That is the right wing in america for you. Not only senselessly cruel, but himuliatingly bad at it.

"because it's obviously wrong".. so perfectly put!

@@GQ2593 wow, so powerful and IMPRESSIVE to kill an endangered animal that poses no absolutely threat to you. much superb very empowered. not cowardly and monstrous at all.

@@GQ2593 russian bot

@@GQ2593 if you are a troll then 😒 not funny.. If you are serious, f**you!! That by no means is an achivement, that is actually a pisplay of a degraded women, women are better than that, sensitive smart and caring, that piece of sh*t should not be considered a human being

He deserves it too. Anyone who has no sympathy for animals are psycho.

I bet you two have no problem with doctors killing unborn babies, or do you? If you do, I could at least have respect for your position on the Animals. I find too many times that many of the anti NRA, and anti hunting people, support the killing of unborn human babies. That stance is ludicrous to me. Just like the comment above, about the hunting of NRA executives. There is a little difference between a human life, and an animal life!

Mine to, I can't believe they feel like this is okay!

All people are vile monsters, even those who claim otherwise.

And you, Michael, are an idiot.

@@normanbraslow7902 he they strike a nerve of yours?

Abaiser A nerve? Explain yourself.

I wonder what an unborn baby sounds like when it's being aborted

@@jasonno4074 Found the republican scumbag!

@@davidparker527 found the little gender confused idiot that doesn't know which bathroom to use

@@davidparker527 oh and am is scumbag for caring about the lives of unborn babies or are you the liberal POS for not caring. Gtfoh

@@jasonno4074 embryo*

Not to forget: The bravery of that woman. Incredible! 😭

@@MJBertolty Yes.... and how that super brave killer was able to locate the elephants inside the fenced in area... it's as if he has built in body sonar to find animals to slaughter for his own sick idea of "fun". And his sparkling clean killer COSPLAY "safari" outfit didn't even have the slightest crease or sign of dirt on it... I'm sure within 10 minutes of the slaughter, he was back at his 5 star $3,000 a night luxury air conditioned COSPLAY tent, with wifi... and lots of bodyguards. He's like a modern day Stanley and Livingston, but without the exploring part. And such a lovely current "starter" wife. Actually, he is a worthless POS. And the NRA members don't seem bothered he apparently stole their money for decades.

@@MJBertolty One really can only say: They deserve each other. What a pair...

i hope they all get cancer soon ,

*It's not about bravery. He was just trying to feed his family.*

How brave, a real challenge. To bad they didn’t attack.

They probably went to some Eastern European country and did that next. Like on Hostel.

it is, he could become a police officer

No, they not getting that dirty. They would want someone to line up a person for them to kill. No hunting involved. Just like in this video. Here you are shoot it.

And wouldn’t take many guesses to know which humans they would pick.

...talking their pathetic hunt up, flattering the guy with money... Already revising the story so it seems interesting.

They weren't laughing at killing an animal, they were enjoying an experience that nearly no one gets, you know, because hunters like to hunt? Don't let your emotions cloud your judgment, Anakin.

where´s a Lion, a Cobra or a Croc when you need one....

I hope you feel that way about the killing of unborn babies. At least the elephant got a chance at life.

The Botswana government uses IUCN reports to guide its conservation efforts. But it has pointed out that the increase of its elephant population justifies the decision to allow legal hunting. The sale of the licenses benefit local communities who are affected by the increased range of elephants looking for water, as drought conditions push them into contact with humans, destroying crops and sometimes trampling people, resulting in human casualties. In 2019 the Botswana government lifted a ban on trophy hunting put in place by president Ian Khama in 2014. Botswana has also sold licenses to kill leopards, zebras and buffaloes. Legal hunting is the way to manage animal populations and also provides food for many.

@@sly5999 Ok, fine. Sure. So, we let incompetent rich folk “hunt” elephants, shoot them, and then, they die a horrible, inhumane death. If thinning the herd is truly necessary, have pro’s do it, not these pampered rich fools.

@@phillippropst3825 seriously?

@@stuffnuns I hear you! Wayne Lapierre is totally incompetent! He certainly can't qualify as a pro hunter. The pros who were accompanying him should have taken things into their own hands when Lapierre missed the second time. But there's also the money that rich pro hunters bring to Botswana to take into account. Rich people are the only one who can afford this type of hunting. But there should be rules. When Lapierre missed, he could have had a second chance but that's it. One of the pros should have taken care of it when he missed the second time. I hate to see an animal suffer like this. I totally agree with you on that.

What is wrong with "them"? There is nothing wrong with your heart.

Don't live in a bubble.

They're charged thousands of $$$ for this elephant. This money is the only source they get to maintain the park and all its animals. Besides animals that are killed it's because their numbers have gotten too big and the park cant sustain them.

Cuz they are losers

@@sheila6479 Inform yourself before you make a dumb , ignorant comment.

I'll take the last option: you.

@@NCflyfishingguides It's not endangered... This is a legal hunt that helps take care of the land and crops in this country. SOME elephants are endangered, but this isn't one of them.

@@NCflyfishingguides Paying that money is the only income these parks have. If it wasn't for this money , these parks wouldn't even exist and all the animals within would be at the mercy of illegal hunters and poachers which kill them indiscriminately. Do some research on your own instead of making an ignorant and emotional opinion.

@@NCflyfishingguides I Concur

@@alfredosenalle9284 Why do these parks exist, why do humans exist they bring destruction and they prevent their own creation of destruction with more destruction

Neither do i

It's called hunting

@@noahf6363 It's called murder - of an innocent, magnificent animal!

@@noahf6363 *When you can’t even find the right spot to kill it with one shot?*

@@kaikaifilu4873 He was unable to make a clean final shot because his scope was sited in at a further range, so he lost precision accuracy at close range; that's why his guide told him to aim lower than what his reticle was focused on. Obviously Wayne wasn't prepared to make such an intuitive adjustment on-the-fly, and should have let his guide finish off the elephant, however he still wasn't acting maliciously as many seem to think.

Given the size of the tusks, it's not even an old elephant, but a rather young one.

Yeah, that's justification, or would you rather they hunt the young ones?

@@prependedprepended6606 ProTip: you can't judge an elephants age by its tusks.

@@whocares110 that’s like saying it’s better to murder an old person than a middle aged person. On a certain level it’s “better”, but realistically it’s still disgustingly immoral

@@whocares110 also, you can judge an elephants age by its tusk most of the time