Palmer isn't a "hunter". Please stop calling him that. He's a POS scumbag thrill-killing POACHER. [View all]

[cherokeeprogressive]

"Hunters" kill animals for food. Hunting is an activity humans have been involving themselves in for tens of thousands of years. Hunting animals for food is one of the first things humans glorified on cave walls.

Walter Palmer isn't a hunter. He employs "guides" to find his animals. It took "guides" to lure Cecil the Lion into Palmer's presence, and I'm betting a "guide" had to point out the lion before Palmer drew a bead on it. That's NOT "hunting".

I'm going to give Palmer's wife a pass. Who's to say she was a willing accomplice? Dickheads like that might say to their wives "You're going with me, and to satisfy the law you'll have to have a license so I might be able to kill TWO animals". The part about the fishing license is a yawner. Lots of people fish.

I haven't hunted for decades, but I have hunted. I was 14 when I killed the first of three deer, and YES; I cried when I walked up to where it lay. I didn't cry when we had deer for dinner instead of the "hamburger meal of the day" though... THAT was a treat. I grew up in So. Cal. and my Dad and Grandpa saved up their money all fucking year so they could go deer hunting in a place called Kennedy Meadows in the southern part of the Sierras. So it's NOT people from the south, or the Appalachians or the midwest or the "flyover states" who kill animals for food as some of you hope to believe, and I'm not even going to get into the fishing part.

Walter Palmer IS NOT a "hunter". He's a fucking POACHING thrill-killer... and his bullshit has NOTHING TO DO with any kind of "gun culture", seeing as how he killed all his animals with bows and arrows.

Walter Palmer is a thrill-killing SCUM OF THE EARTH Poacher and nothing more. Please stop equating what he did with "hunting". Stop calling him a "hunter". A "hunter", he ain't.