Posted on 09/29/2013 9:03:46 AM PDT by Amagi
No LA Times excerpt. Just a link. --- I proudly hold NRA membership. I am not familiar with this NBC television show ("Under Wild Skies") nor its host, Tony Makris, who on the surface of it appears to have wantonly killed an elephant. Makris is said to be an NRA lobbyist and to have been instrumental in Charlton Heston's ascendancy in the NRA.
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Can anyone confirm or deny Makris' NRA credentials and the credibility of this report?
One of my liberal facebook friends, knowing that I am NRA and have also posted several articles in condemnation of elephant poaching, sent me a facedook "cause" to sign condemning Makris. Awkward, eh?
Anyone, even those seeking to discredit the NRA, can join the NRA, and even if he is an NRA member, he pulled the trigger not the NRA
This story has been posted a couple of times on Democratic Underground...with the vast majority of the posters there wishing for the death of hunter for the “crime” of killing an elephant.
So the guy says he is NRA, went to Africa to kill an elephant illegally and them back to the US and bragged about it......on the face of it sounds bogus.
And in any case, shooting the elephant was perfectly legal.
What's the beef?
Are you equating the Makris “shooting incident” with poaching?
You mean “where’s the pachyderm bush meat?”
I wonder if he drives a 1925 Rolls Royce.
Apparently he is (or at the very least, was) involved with the NRA:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-05-25/news/9705250353_1_celebrity-political-pancake-breakfast
went to Africa to kill an elephant illegally
No crime was committed, the hunt was perfectly legal.
and them back to the US and bragged about it......on the face of it sounds bogus.
He's a host on the NBC sports show, "Under Wild Skies", and he did an episode showing the hunt (which concluded with the popping of champagne). Some might characterize that as "bragging", I suppose. In any case...not bogus.
ONLY SPECULATING HERE as I know nothing of Makris or of the incident you refer to. Could Makris indeed be a long time member, but only as a plant so as to discredit the NRA in a crucial moment?
Could the details in whatever report of the story be accurate? Is there more to the story that Makris “wantonly” killed an elephant? Was a human life threatened by the elephant? Are there more than one person in the NRA with the same name?
But yes, your situation is for the moment awkward until you can indeed find the truth of it. I hope you find the truth. I hope the details will absolve any wrong doing on the part of a high profile NRA member. I hope another FReeper can help you find those answers!
Ha!
Um...what "wrong doing"? He legally hunted a game animal.
So the guy says he is NRA, went to Africa to kill an elephant illegally and them back to the US and bragged about it......on the face of it sounds bogus.
He’s damn lucky the incident reported didn’t involve any wood or the feds would be up his arse before he could say boo!
With the exception of a couple of comments by the same person after the article, anyone who hunts (regardless of the reason) will burn in hell. Call us after that deer or elk or moose or bear comes through your windshield. (Hopefully not through the windsheild of the ‘25 Rolls.:>)
Wasn’t there a city councilman or mayor in California that was run out of office for a perfectly legal cougar hunt/kill in Colorado?
Sounds like the same thing being attempted here
Amagi seems to post these kinds of things
Having spent a fair amount of time in the African bush, I gotta say that hunting an elephant would be about as challenging as hunting a house. What’s the point?
Hunting for meat would be one thing. Culling an overpopulated herd is a job that needs to be done. But hunting an elephant for sport is like hailing a taxi in Manhattan. Expensive, but not very difficult.
What a he-man.
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