Susan and Wayne LaPierre killed two elephants to use their feet for stools.

[Demovictory9]

i didn't watch the video. no pics pasted here


Video Emerges of 'Inept' Elephant Hunt by NRA's Chief
One critics calls his shooting by Wayne LaPierre 'inept' and 'clumsy'

https://www.newser.com/story/305468/video-emerges-of-inept-elephant-hunt-by-nras-chief.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

A video shot for an NRA-sponsored TV series was hidden from the world for nearly eight years—until now. The footage, obtained by the New Yorker and the Trace, shows CEO Wayne LaPierre and his wife, Susan, shooting two savanna elephants in Botswana in September 2013. (The elephants have since been declared endangered.)

The video was originally meant to be shown on Under Wild Skies to help promote the NRA to hunters. LaPierre, under the direction of a guide, wounds his elephant from a distance with his first shot, but can't complete the kill, firing three times at point-blank range but at the wrong part of the elephant. The show's host finally fires the ultimately fatal shot. Susan LaPierre, however, didn't have as much trouble, killing an elephant by shooting it between its eyes. "That was awesome." she says, before cutting off its tail. "Victory!" she says."

The footage never aired, due to fears it would turn into a PR disaster for the NRA, and now that it's seen the light of day, those fears appear justified. "These intelligent beings certainly shouldn't be used as paper targets by an inept marksman," Tanya Sanerib of the Center for Biological Diversity tells USA Today, adding that she found the video "sickening," and that it was a "brutal, clumsy slaughter."

But an NRA spokesman tells the New York Times that the hunt followed all regulations and had the proper permits, and that such activity in Botswana is "celebrated" for its economic and cultural benefits. The Trace and New Yorker note that body parts from the elephants were shipped back to the US for souvenirs. Among those body parts: the elephants' feet, which were turned into stools for the LaPierres' home. More on the hunt here, including the video.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. These two assholes are disgusting human beings

This is truly sick and disgusting

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Wayne ThePeter should suffer the same fate

So should she. Let's see how awesome she'd find it then.

I don't know how people can be so evil and disgusting.

[Hoyt]

3. Deplorable people.

[central scrutinizer]

6. But dressed to the nines

Spanking new LL Bean safari wear.

[BlueNProud]

7. these people deserve to be the ones lying there lifeless

[PortTack]

14. Totally..how disgusting. To kill a living being just for the pleasure, and a trophy

[spanone]

4. hate these mf'ers

[RockRaven]

5. Imagine what kind of dumb bad-taste sicko you have to be to *want* dead elephant leg furniture

That's so fucking tacky it makes the former guy's obsession with gold-plated everything look classy.

Even if they were ethically sourced (from elephants who died of old age or whatever), it would still scream "I'm an oblivious no-taste fuckwit!"

[VGNonly]

11. Aristotle Onassis

had bar stools made from the foreskins of whales.

[Bucky]

21. I think it's a species we've grown up a bit since the 1970s

There's been a lot of science and a lot of growing awareness of the science of how alert and sensitive animals are since the Ari Onassis era.

[UpInArms]

8. Someone should "cut off her tail"

and shout “Victory!”

[Me.]

9. This Is So Despicable

2 majestic and innocent creatures slaughtered for fun and a 'high'. Even worse the kill on the first one was botched causing the poor creature to suffer before his life was taken.The turned into stools. There is a group of people walking the earth and this country who have no humanity and empathy and until recently they were in charge of this country. Even now they have two much power to destroy.

[blm]

10. I hate these people.

[DSandra]

12. I can't even bring myself to shoot any animal, and these fucks kill innocent elephants

Needlessly just for furniture to make themselves revel more in being one of the most deplorable and despicable Americans in U.S. history. They are a fucking menace!

[7wo7rees]

13. Dear god, I viewed the video.

I am at a loss. I can't write what is in my heart.
These cretins live and walk amongst us.

I hope this goes viral and brings them down. They are soulless creatures and I believe there is a special place reserved for them in their afterlife.

Ms.7wo7rees

[Demovictory9]

17. It has gone viral

[7wo7rees]

18. Thanks for update. They should be reviled the world over!!

Hell is too nice for these two.

[ironflange]

15. Susan, not Wayne, LaPierre killed two elephants to use their feet for stools.

Fixt it fer ya.

[Demovictory9]

16. Wayne "tried"

[ironflange]

19. And tried and tried and tried. . .

[Bucky]

20. I tried to watch it, but LaPierre shooting the elephant over and over while it screamed

I just couldn't finish. Wayne LaPierre looked pathetic. You could see the hunter guides were eager to put the beast out of its misery.

[GulfCoast66]

22. As a life long ethical hunter this is sickening.