NRA’s ex-President, An Elephant, and a Trash Can (Dude?!)

 

Dude, really...?



So this is an old story that I’ve been meaning to write about for some time, but somehow I just didn’t get around to it. Maybe because I just couldn’t quite believe it…


Anyway, according to several news reports dating from this summer, the former president of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre and his wife, Susan LaPierre, went hunting in Africa in 2013. In particular, they shot an elephant or two, and apparently made a mess of it. No clean kill, in other words, but rather the animal dying in some pain.


But the other problem is what happened afterwards. Apparently, the couple sent the dead animal’s feet home and had them made into stools, an umbrella stand, and a trash can.


A trash can?


Dude…Mr. LaPierre…hunt, don’t hunt, whatever. That’s your choice.


But this is the best you do with the trophies? You made a piece of the one of the most magnificent creatures on the planet into a trash can?


You need to do one of two things. Either acquire the rudiments of good taste, or…or…get another hobby.


Maybe Stamps.


Or knitting. 



~mjt




Source: “NRA head Wayne LaPierre and his wife secretly turned elephants they shot in Botswana into home decor: report” Lauren Frias Jul 29, 2021, 8:30 PM, Business Insider, https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-nra-head-wife-secretly-turned-elephant-home-furniture-report-2021-7



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