The New Yorker has a story on gun ghoul Wayne LaPierre’s botched hunting trip in which he murdered an elephant, but did so in the most incompetent manner possible, having to shoot it multiple times because he literally can not hit a fucking elephant at 15 yards with a rifle. The link is here, and there is video, but fortunately it does not autoplay.
I don’t care how good of a person you have been the rest of your life, if you kill an animal like this, for sport, for fun, to compensate for your small dick, you will be running in the evil section of the good to evil continuum for the rest of your life. Nothing can make up for this act of barbarism, and LaPierre was already well to the evil end to begin with.
He should be rolled up in a carpet and trampled by a herd of elephants.
Cheryl Rofer
I’m gonna add a warning about the article itself. I found the description of his wife’s activities quite upsetting.
craigie
No argument there.
Sister Golden Bear
They ended up having to have the guide finally put the elephant out of misery.
And yes, his wife’s behavior was equally horrendous in different ways.
Fuckers.
Another Scott
Disgusting is a good word for it.
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Emma from Miami
Elephant footie!!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@craigie: Yeah, I’m good with that.
NotMax
Why ruin a perfectly good carpet when we’ve got zip ties?
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dmsilev
Remember me, Mr. Schneider? Kenya. 1947. If you’re going to shoot at an elephant, Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.
Mary G
A band of elephants killed a rhino poacher the other day, and I heartily endorse your suggestion for this asshole. I wish
I believed in hell, where he could be mauled over and over to infinity by every species he’s murdered.
I cannot watch the video, but I gave an extra bit to the Sheldrick Trust Orphans’ Project, where they rescue baby elephants who’ve gotten lost from their families through poaching, climate change, and encroaching humans who want to farm, hand raise them, eventually take them out in the wild every day and rejoice when they stay there to make a new life on their own.
They say that elephants never forget and 38 of their success stories have brought new babies back to show off to their humans! All their videos are comfort content for me and I watched a lot of them during TFG’s administration
ETA: And when is NY State going to prosecute these assholes for fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering?
JoyceH
Not AN elephant. Two elephants. His wife bagged one too. Ugh.
M. Bouffant
Two minds, 1.5 thoughts , or, how I headlined it:
Who Most Deserves To Be Stomped By An Elephant? Wayne LaPierre
Justin Wilson
@Cheryl Rofer: agreed. How does one become as gross as these people? Truly staggering the depths of depravity amongst the “family values” wingnuts
Timb116
@Sister Golden Bear: they did not. The dude who killed the elephant was the equally disgusting con man, Makris from Ackerman-McQueen
Sister Golden Bear
I’d love to see them reach St. Peter’s Gate, only to discover that Ganesh asked St. Peter to substitute for him that day.
Sister Golden Bear
In happier news, in today’s edition of fucked around and found out: CEO fired for harassing gay teens.
Le Nettoyeur
Some of the comments assume that LaPierre has somehow lost his way and gone evil. I think rather that this is the way he is wired, period,, it is fundamental. I met a corporate VP in business class on a flight one time. PhD, biomed. Hobby was sport shooting, high calibre, long distance. He was studying his target spreads. Wealthy, lots of tech toys, cars, tractors, acreage. Told me he was on a hunting trip in Africa once, didn’t like the look of some people on the other side of a river at a border. So he took a pot shot and chuckled at how they ran away. Zero empathy.
jnfr
I can’t speak to how horrifying I find this. And as people note, it’s of a piece with all kinds of horrible human behavior.
On the other side, here is an excellent organization that works to keep elephants alive, and also focuses on the ecosystems that sustain them all.
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/
Ruckus
Cole
Those elephants should get the full pleasure of stomping the shit out of Wayne, be able to see and hear him scream, in all his flattened, bloody glory, not rolled up in a carpet. He needs to be staked out over an aunt hill, the elephants stomp him into little bitty pieces so the fire ants can drag off all the bits and pieces for dinner.
jnfr
@Mary G:
Yes, exactly this. Thank you.
Comrade Colette
@Ruckus:
As someone blessed with an improbable number of fierce aunts, I heartily endorse this. Elephants got nuthin’ on them.
Poe Larity
He’s the weird guy who went to your school and people whispered he tortured animals but hasn’t been convicted as a serial killer yet.
mrmoshpotato
Just for his NRA activities alone. Follow it by a herd of hippos. And then, a herd of Gallimimus being chased by a pack of Tyrannosaurus. Good eatin’ for scavengers.
cckids
That article is a disturbing account. What soulless people.
Arclite
Vegetarian here. Maybe we should not kill any animal.
JustRuss
@Comrade Colette:
Let me be the first to welcome Bertie Wooster to the jackaltariat.
NotoriousJRT
@NotMax:
Right on.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
@Sister Golden Bear: LOL!
Ruckus
@Comrade Colette:
Sometimes the mis use of a word just makes things better.
Ten Bears
No, it should suffer as its victim did – shoot it, wound it, leave it lay for a little while; shoot it again, four times, further wounding it. Let it lay a bit longer before having a flunkie put it out of its misery.
tokyokie
I wish somebody would put the LaPierres out of OUR misery.
Mary G
Saw a bit on Twitter that Mrs. Horror cut the tail off her dead elephant, and there is a photo of TFG, Jr. holding one up too. WTF is that about?
cain
@Ten Bears:
Shoot him, and then drag him to an ant hill and let nature take care of the rest.
Of all animals.. why, in Gods name would you shoot and kill an elephant? One of the most empathetic animals in the world. It is no wonder that it is nearly worshiped in India.
Although, I have to say that there is definitely abuse of elephants there too. My mother saw a documentary on Trichur Pooram which is a festival that showcases a rivalry between two temples by showing off the grandeur of their elephants. But those elephants do not like having their feet on concrete and they are forced there – chained. My parents swore never to attend or watch the pooram again. I’m with them.
cain
I think all big game hunters are soulless assholes. Who couldn’t survive in the wild by themselves – they have to have a retinue. Fucking cowards.
Amir Khalid
@cain:
Sport hunting — stalking and killing wild animals for the thrillz, not because of any need — is immoral. It shouldn’t be legal anywhere.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Wayne sounds a lot like Bungalow Bill.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
So when I went to the Okavango, I only took a camera. Shot beautiful photos, hundreds, of elephants, elephant babies, etc.
The Contessa refuses to book hunt travel – doesn’t like it at all, says it is a niche item that she’s not comfortable with, but knows the mechanics. Says it is super expensive, and that what is SUPPOSED to be happening is that rangers and guides are to work together to cull animals near the end of life, although it doesn’t always happen like that.
The natural end of the elephant is generally a slow wasting as their teeth grind down, and they get less and less nutritious food.
JoyceH
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
In the case of the LaPierres, and I suspect for most ‘hunters’ like them, the term ‘hunt’ is pretty misleading. ‘Shoot’ is more accurate, they’re going on a shoot. They don’t have to actually find the animal they’re going to shoot at, their tour guides take them right up to it. And in old Wayne’s case, the guide POINTED THE GUN for him, and the jackass still missed!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I eagerly await Glenn Greenwald’s inspiring defense of Wayne Lapierre….
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So the head of the NRA never used a gun before. My experience that’s a common with the hardcore 2nd Amendment Botherors. My person theory is guns are like Katanas to the Weebro; in their minds these weapons are magical items that the ghost of some dead warrior uses at their command.
Glory b
Don’t forget, they also had to arrange for the clandestine transportation of the elephant’s feet to the US so they could be turned into end tables…
biff murphy
“The large elephant head of Lord Ganesha symbolizes wisdom, understanding, and a discriminating intellect that one must possess to attain perfection in life…
The right tusk represents wisdom and the left tusk represents emotion”
Something these soulless assholes lack. Awful people.
Bex
Is there a metaphor here for the final grisly end of the Republican party?
marklar
@Amir Khalid:
Just imagine if we had ‘hunters’ trade in their guns for cameras (without image stabilization). You’d need the same skills as hunters…tracking, targeting, shooting…and would leave your quarry unscathed so that others could do the same. Heck, you could even mount your trophies on your wall as posters!
SFAW
@M. Bouffant:
One of the things in that link was an NRA description of members includes “steelworkers,” “cowboys,” “hard-rock miners,” “swamp folks in Cajun country who can wrestle a full-grown gator out of the water,” “the mountain men who live off the land,” and “the brave cops who fight the good fight in the urban war zones.”
Fucking racist assholes. I think whoever wrote that copy should end up inside the rolled-up blanket with LaPierre and his wife.
These people are sick.
Taken4Granite
Gen. John Sedgwick’s last words were, “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” A Confederate sharpshooter promptly proved him wrong. But he would have been right about the LaPierres.
J R in WV
Pretty despicable.
I enjoy target shooting, and have killed innumerable tin cans as a youth, before I mostly started using paper targets. Plastic pop bottles are also good targets, as they hop around.
I don’t hunt for sport. Killing elephants is murder, no more, no less.
leeleeFL
@craigie: Don’t waste the carpet, just stake him out. always knew he was a piece of shit.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@Bex: From your keyboard to the FSM’s ears.
vigilhorn
Looks like Wayne married his trophy.