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In reply to the discussion: The A***oles didn't fall far from the tree: Trumps sons pose with their dead animals [View all]MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)33. Killing a leopard for no reason at all.
I hate these guys. What scum.
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The A***oles didn't fall far from the tree: Trumps sons pose with their dead animals [View all]
n2doc
Mar 2012
OP
agreed. my brother has stupid dead dear heads in his living room - something i never understood
arely staircase
Mar 2012
#20
That's disgusting. How proud they must be...cowardly gunning a defenseless animal down.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#8
Well, I haven't seen him in a looooong time, but I expect he still hunts. He's that kind.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#38
My husband used to be a duck hunter and attended many camping trips with his friends.
Auntie Bush
Mar 2012
#182
That's what I always think when trophy hunters give their bullshit line about "sport"
Withywindle
Mar 2012
#59
So do these 30-something clowns have jobs or do they just sponge off The Daddy-Donald?
Gidney N Cloyd
Mar 2012
#12
From the context of the outraged posters on this thread, I don't think it *is* being used
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#82
I'm sure you infer it in such a way as to better validate your own outrage...
LanternWaste
Mar 2012
#96
Of course we rationalize our own emotional responses at a thing while minimizing the same in others.
LanternWaste
Mar 2012
#102
Maybe a bunch of emails with this link should be sent to them as a better way to spend their $
tabatha
Mar 2012
#37
The conservation status of the leopard is "near threatened", which is actually
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#47
Leopards are protected in many countries in Africa, if this was within one of those countries...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2012
#34
Shrug. There are a lot of things more worthy of getting upset about than the legal hunting
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#51
I disagree with most of the posts on this thread. *That* is what makes it interesting to me.
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#149
I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of posters on this thread who are
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#87
Remember the thread about the big game commissioner who hunted a mountain lion in Idaho?
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#148
Does your empathy and sympathy for my visceral response have an upper limit?
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#104
I'm not "pro-kill" in the sense that I'm not advocating that people run out and kill leopards.
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#81
They could indeed do all the things you listed. Perhaps they already have.
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#150
Oh no! I'm being ignored after someone went to the trouble of telling me I'm be ignored!
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#157
The same amount of money spent to hunt the animals could have been spent for ecotourism
csziggy
Mar 2012
#79
Most of them would probably condescendingly say that it's different when local tribes
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#90
I've read that locals will eat leopard, lion, etc., when the meat is donated.
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#121
Given that information, it sounds as if limited hunting of the species is fine.
Johnny Rico
Mar 2012
#113
"Limited hunting", i.e., "limited" to the ultra-wealthy who have absolute scads
bullwinkle428
Mar 2012
#124
like anyone would cite "the circle of life" if there was even the remotest chance that they'd be on
MisterP
Mar 2012
#138
Daddy Trump: I am not a believer in hunting and I'm surprised they like it."
Liberal_in_LA
Mar 2012
#133
Typical Trump - throwing his kids under the bus so his precious image won't be tainted
bullwinkle428
Mar 2012
#193
Kinda wish Lazarus Kitty would come back to life and administer some instant karma
Blue Owl
Mar 2012
#135
What about big game tours, photography tours vs killing animal tours? They would bring in a lot of
uppityperson
Mar 2012
#183
that leopard can be hunted many times over - for photography- those sacks of shit need shaming
certainot
Mar 2012
#168
those guys aren't there to help starving africans but i see what you're saying, to some degree.
certainot
Mar 2012
#180
their wound rate would be higher with arrows etc. and it would actually take balls as opposed to
certainot
Mar 2012
#186
i was thinking more of a leopard- this guy is still an asshole, with a young buffalo wondering what
certainot
Mar 2012
#196
i'd rather see these 'tough' guys have to do these hunts with bows and arrows and spears
certainot
Mar 2012
#178