I believe the dentist that shot Cecil the lion is an asshole and I am not a liberal. Just thought I should clear that up before I progress. I keep seeing posts on facebook from right arms that assume just because people care about animals and detest people that don't, that one must surely be a liberal; if we care about protecting and caring for anything that cannot vote, earn money, play sports or just needs to be offered their own space without feeding us or amusing us, we must be liberals? I get it that some people only like the animals they refer to as their pets and I get it that most Americans will always look the other way and not want to know when animals are tortured and slaughtered for everyone's dining pleasure, but I resent being called a liberal, period. I am as liberal as Mother Teresa was an ultra right wing conservative; I am as liberal as Hilary Clinton is known for being an honest woman that only cares for making America strong again. I am as liberal as Henry Ford was a Chevy man.
I am also not a leftie by any description of what the left is after but I could never live in a angry far-right extremism society either. I carry a gun everywhere think I need to and if a lion or a giraffe, or even a groundhog approaches me on the sidewalk or in my backyard in a life threatenting manner I will draw my weapon and defend myself if need be. I will also draw it and hope my aim is sure if a man or a woman threatens me in a deadly manner; I hope I wouldn't hesitate to shoot them, and if I believe I need to their life won't matter to me whether they are white, black, Latino, Oriental, or even if I can't see their face to know one way or the other for a towel wrapped around their face hiding it. Some human life just isn't that precious to me.
I am not a "gunny" but I believe I have a right to carry mine anywhere I go and use it when it is clear to me that I need to. But just becase I like animals more than I probably like 1/2 of the people in the world, it has zero to do with my politics. Those that believe we shouldn't care about a lion that was ambushed and killed the way Cecil was have taken to calling us that do care, liberals. I have uglier names than that to call them. We would be more likely to agree if it had been guilty of running amuck and killing people in some village and needed to be put down to end the carnage. However, Cecil was killed because a dentist that could afford thousands of dollars to pleasure himself wanted his head for a trophy.
If a bad man or a bad woman who was guilty of murder or rape were tracked down by me or anyone else and then killed as Cecil was we would be charged with premeditated murder. We would probably spend years in prison or maybe even be put to death if we did that and paid someone else thousands of dollars to help us. But I am a liberal for thinking like this? Because I think the dentist should be called out for what he is? I hope he finds himself in a precarious situation with no way out during a hunting expedition in the jungle someday.
I envision him out there alone; out of ammunition and running for his life from a pack of angry and hungry lions, toward a cliff and then tumbling over it into a pit of hungry Cobras. It isn't that I am a heartless son-of-a-bitch, it is that my heart is big enough to also care about more beings than just some of us two-legged sons-of-bitches. Animals usually kill to survive or they are taught to kill for sport. The dentist had no civilized excuse for doing what he did, only arrogance. I would love to be his guide and his equipment manager the next time he wants to kill something that is only minding its own business that shouldn't be killed. I would take him there for no more money than to pay my expenses and a generous donation to a humane society.
I would steal his rifle, all of his provisions, his clothing (including his shoes) and his car-keys and then I would drive off, leaving him out there by himself to have fun. If he made it back home I would praise him as one hell of a sportsmen. So please, stop calling me a liberal. I have very little in common with most of them. One needn't be a liberal to care about God's best work, the animal kingdom. If it brings you peace, pray for me that I will someday think like you.
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