An Interview with Kendall Jones

firstforhunters.wordpress.com ^ | 7/22/2014 | Unknown

[rktman]

If you’ve turned on the TV, radio, looked at a newspaper, or used the internet in these past few weeks, you have heard of Kendall Jones.

Kendall Jones is a 19 year old cheerleader studying at Texas Tech who has stirred up some recent controversy. She is a seasoned hunter that has been lucky enough to travel to Africa to hunt the big five; work alongside organizations to provide meat to local communities and help treat wounded animals. Recently, she has been targeted on social media sites and attacked by news agencies for having pictures of her hunts published on Facebook. There has been much misinformation spreading around about what she has hunted and the specific role hunting plays in conservation. Bill McGrath, SCI’s Legislative Counsel was fortunate enough to sit down with Kendall to discuss the media backlash and correctly set the narrative.

[rktman]

You know. The Texas cheerleader who hunts down and kills defenseless lions and other big game. Yeah, the one that rec'd death threats because of the pics she posted on facebook.

[Pearls Before Swine]

She’s so not guilty... of anything.

[Uncle Chip]

Did she actually shoot any of that wildlife or just get her picture taken with it afterwards???

She said that the first thing she ever shot was a rhinoceros — not a squirrel or rabbit or deer or duck or elk or impala or ... but a rhino.

How many hunters start off with a rhinoceros????

And then after the brouhaha erupted she said that the rhinoceros she is depicted with was actually just sleeping — having been shot by a veterinarian with a tranquilizer gun.

[Sergio]

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