I really don't get it ...

[Cigar]

:rollseyes: 6 Guys with Hi-Powered Riffles against a grazing Rhino; George Zimmerman would be Proud :rollseyes:

How Truly American :tongue:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1012221_495836803829953_1796613586_n.jpg

[keymanjim]

http://thepoliticalforums.com/images/icons/icon13.png I really don't get it ...
Apparently, that's the story of your life.

[Chris]

Read Hemingway.

[zelmo1234]

He can read?

[nic34]

Some guys just need to feel "secure"........

[Chloe]

How old is that picture? Why were they allowed to kill such a hugely endangered species? That's horrible.

[Cigar]

Some guys just need to feel "secure"........

Real Men :rollseyes:

[Chris]

Some guys just need to feel "secure"........

Are you saying cigar is insecure. Interesting.

[Chris]

How old is that picture? Why were they allowed to kill such a hugely endangered species? That's horrible.

Looks old.

"The IUCN Red List identifies three of the species as critically endangered." @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros Difficult to identify. Perhaps if cigar provided a link.

[Cigar]

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4841885234891103&pid=1.7

[nic34]

Are you saying cigar is insecure. Interesting.

Is this where I insert <laughing> pic?

[Chloe]

Looks old.

"The IUCN Red List identifies three of the species as critically endangered." @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros Difficult to identify. Perhaps if cigar provided a link.

Well you know my opinion on hunting but I hate how people go around killing animals that may not survive past my generation for sport like that and then pose behind its dead body. It's just disturbing and macabre to me.

[Chris]

Why are you diverting?

[zelmo1234]

How old is that picture? Why were they allowed to kill such a hugely endangered species? That's horrible.

I actually don't think that they did! For the past decades the Rhino has been protected, but the sell hunts (with a dart gun) at very high prices. then they dart the animal, vets check it over they take these pictures they score the animal! And it is on it's way!

If you look at the would I suspect that this is what happened! As a bullet would have blood running out of it!

this cost thousands and thousands of dollars and much of the money goes to support and protect the rhino!

[Mister D]

How old is that picture? Why were they allowed to kill such a hugely endangered species? That's horrible.

African poachers are the real threat. And, no, they don't need to feel "secure". They are desperately poor.

[Cigar]

Yea ... as you can plainly see ... they're Africa Poachers :dang:

http://pioneerminister.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/diversion.jpg

[Chris]

Is this where I insert <laughing> pic?

Yes. Here...

http://i.snag.gy/0FpWy.jpg

[Chris]

Well you know my opinion on hunting but I hate how people go around killing animals that may not survive past my generation for sport like that and then pose behind its dead body. It's just disturbing and macabre to me.

Understood, and agree to an extent. But we know next to nothing about the pic. It could have been not only perfectly legal but to the benefit of the rhino population there. Think about it, you've got a small habitat that can sustain only a certain number of rhinos. It could be the authorities allow a certain number of kills per season, and collect huge fees to fund protection of the herd. --Of course, I'm just speculating, but something to consider.

[Chloe]

African poachers are the real threat. And, no, they don't need to feel "secure". They are desperately poor.

Poachers are more dangerous than American sport hunters I know that, but there are other ways to support a family besides depleting a natural resource. It's hard to shut down the black market on this stuff but more effort could be done from a lot of people in my opinion.

[Chris]

Chloe, my argument is not far-fetched:

Hunters Paying $150,000 to Kill an Endangered Rhino May Save the Species (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/hunters-paying-150-000-to-kill-an-endangered-rhino-may-save-the-species.html)

Rhino Hunts (http://gothunts.com/hunt-details/international-big-game/african-big-five/rhino-hunts/)

TROPHY HUNTING WHITE RHINO (http://www.africanskyhunting.co.za/trophies/white-rhiino-hunting.html)

That, to point out there is a debate on this.

[Mister D]

Poachers are more dangerous than American sport hunters I know that, but there are other ways to support a family besides depleting a natural resource. It's hard to shut down the black market on this stuff but more effort could be done from a lot of people in my opinion.

Hides, ivory etc. are worth so much it's hard to resist even with 20 year prison sentences for poaching. I agree that the people willing to buy it are just as bad if not worse.

[Mister D]

Understood, and agree to an extent. But we know next to nothing about the pic. It could have been not only perfectly legal but to the benefit of the rhino population there. Think about it, you've got a small habitat that can sustain only a certain number of rhinos. It could be the authorities allow a certain number of kills per season, and collect huge fees to fund protection of the herd. --Of course, I'm just speculating, but something to consider.

It doesn't look like it has been killed to be honest.

[Chris]

It doesn't look like it has been killed to be honest.

True, we don't even know that. But, damnitall, it pulls at the heart strings!