There's good management, and there's vandalism. This is vandalism.
Yes, it is. And it results in bad management, because the horse-crazed women stampede the legislators into enacting laws that codify really bad management.
This is exactly how the BLM's "Wild Horse and Burro" management situation came about. Some horses were shot. Women got their panties in a wad, they lobbied DC, and kept lobbying every time one of these stupid animals so much as stubbed their hoof on anything and the result is what you have today.
The way to nip this in the bud is go get the person who shot the horse, smack 'em for animal cruelty, and leave it at that. Quickly. Before this becomes some nation-wide campaign of ignorant, emotional women in cities.