A trophy hunt recorded on video by the top US gun lobbyist Wayne LaPierre in Botswana caused horror – and malice.
The 2013 video published by The New Yorker magazine and the Trace organization shows how the head of the powerful gun lobby NRA unsuccessfully tries to put a coup de grace on a wounded elephant.
The video first shows how LaPierre injures the animal with a first shot. He then takes aim at the elephant three more times from close range – but the shots all fail. The fatal shot at the animal is finally fired by one of LaPierre’s hunting companions.
Tail tip cut off: „Victory!“
The video also shows LaPierre’s wife Susan killing an elephant and then cutting off the tip of its tail. She calls out: „Victory!“
The founder of the organization Moms Demand Action, Shannon Watts, wrote on Twitter that the NRA chief had managed to turn both hunters and gun owners against him, „because it is not only inhuman, but also because he is a terrible shooter“ .
The NRA is already under pressure against its leadership over allegations of embezzlement by the New York prosecutor. In January, the lobby organization filed for bankruptcy and filed for bankruptcy protection in a bankruptcy court in Dallas, Texas. With the maneuver, the organization wanted to escape further legal prosecution in New York.
