A National Rifle Association (NRA) lobbyist this week lashed out at critics who called on NBC Sports to cancel his hunting program after it aired an episode where he shot an elephant in the face.
By Friday, almost 50,000 people had reacted to this week's episode of Under Wild Skies -- which features gun lobbyist Tony Makris shooting an elephant in the face and then drinking champagne -- by asking NBC Sports to cancel the NRA-sponsored show.
Just so we're straight -- The Gadfly, once again for the record, is not anti-gun. He is anti-stupidity with a gun and anti-asshole with a gun. There is no ambiguity in that declaration.
The Gadfly just finds it fascination in observing how some of these NRA goons simply are incapable of realizing how fucking soulless and prick-faced they come off to normal people when they are attempting to defend their indefensible words and actions.
And while Mr. NRA Prickface guy was correct in stating that some indigenous peoples in certain countries do eat elephant meat - it is a rarefied event. What he didn't say was that fact, along with poaching and illegal hunting in the elephant's natural habitats, has decimated the elephant populations in many countries to the point of near extinction.
All of that aside though, what kind of monster shoots a beautiful creature like that - in the face - and then gleefully celebrates by drinking champagne?
The Gadfly thinks Mr. NRA Prickface guy ought to go on a hunting expedition with a drunken Dick Cheney - - so that he himself might discover exactly what it feels like to get a load of lead buckshot to the face.
Oh -- and it goes without saying that when you are reduced to painting your detractors as sympathizers of Hitler's Nazi ideology for their criticism of you, just admit that you already have completely and miserably lost the debate.
Assholes.
----TFG
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