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December 30, 2012, 01:04 PM | #1 |
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Use guns to save the elephants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/wo...e-up-arms.html
The basic story is how Kenyan civilians, some on their own and some with government help, are forming militias to protect wildlife and the associated tourism business. There are local groups that do this with private arms. I can't understand the Times or some reports are being perverse. The Times has continually denounced gun ownership and made fun of self-defense concerns. They recently had an OP-ed saying that if you had an AR it was your man card (the old Freud story). But here's a story that might be applied to the US in some of our circumstances (the border, after Katrina). Every once in awhile a progun story gets through. Weird.
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December 30, 2012, 02:57 PM | #2 |
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isn't Kenya one of the countries that banned most if not all hunting a few years ago?
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December 30, 2012, 03:16 PM | #3 | |
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December 31, 2012, 01:35 AM | #4 |
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Wow, saving elephants in Africa with arms. Did that ever jog a memory and with the help of IMDB I nailed it down.
There was a 1958 movie: The Roots of Heaven starring Trevor Howard where Howard's character was trying to save the elephants in Africa and eventually formed an armed group to do it. Errol Flynn and Orson Welles were in it too. |
December 31, 2012, 10:46 AM | #5 |
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When I was helping run The Frugal Outdoorsman, we had a guy, Tink Nathan send in a hunting story about some game wardens in the Selous chasing poachers. Great read.
And, yeah, that's the same Tink Nathan of Tink's #69 Doe-in-Rut Buck Lure. |
December 31, 2012, 11:22 AM | #6 | |
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Want to really blow your mind?
Check out this article in the rabidly anti-gun UK Guardian glorifying real life violence backing Al Queda militia killing with a machine gun: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...bi?INTCMP=SRCH From the lengthy article: Quote:
Or this one calling murderous looting "distractions of the spoils of war" and completely over looking the rape gangs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ar?INTCMP=SRCH Gun banners have absolutely no problem promoting guns and violence when it meets with their goals. In fact, in some cases I would say they find it somewhat necessary to disarm the population to meet with their goals depending upon whom the person proposing the ban is. In the final analysis all RKBA people have a libertarian streak and all gun banners are a bit statist. This is not really a right left thing.
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December 31, 2012, 01:12 PM | #7 |
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I'm afraid I have to call a big fraud on this story Alabama Shooter.
Everybody knows any kind of 'militia' cannot possibly stand up against any kind of government forces. And the portrayal of the militia joking and laughing and singing songs? Pure fantasy when everybody knows every member of a 'militia' is a sad, pathetic, frightened loner-loser-degenerate that just cowers in his bunker surrounded by all the anti-social killing machines he has been able to accumulate. |
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One would think with all the conflicting portrayals that some people would engage their frontal lobes instead of trying to channel emotionalism but sadly no.
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