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Shooting Elephants in the Face: Well-Done, A Lot of “Fun” on NBC

September 29, 2013 by Source

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by Abby Zimet / Common Dreams

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Just when you thought you couldn’t hate the NRA any more comes this video from Under Wild Skies, an NRA-sponsored, so-called sports show being inexplicably aired by NBC, in which tough guy, Indiana Jones-wannabee and NRA lobbyist Tony Makris bravely goes forth into Botswana to massacre an elephant – an act about to be but not quite yet illegal – finally downing it on the third shot by shooting it in the face and then gleefully gloating, after the suffering animal charged him, that “somebody got a little cheeky there.”

Here are two well-deserved petitions to cancel the show.

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  1. Kathleen Bolger says

    September 29, 2013 at 5:10 pm

    Pls do not support this show!

  2. Daniel Castro says

    October 2, 2013 at 1:18 pm

    I can not believe that a man with a big gun can feel proud to kill such a magnificient animal and gloat. Is it a sport? Is it a challege? Is it a right?

    Maybe in his next life he will be tracked down and hunted, just like an animal. Except, an animal has a soul and this man does not and never will; past, present or future.

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