Actual Zimbabwean to Anti-Hunting Types: FOAD

By Johannes Paulsen

Zimbabwe, nee Southern Rhodesia, has always been a hard place to live. Goodwell Nzou would know. The doctoral student at Wake Forest University hails from that country, and is well aware of the dangers the wilds of his native land present. At age 11, he lost his right leg to a snakebite . . .

When the recent kerfuffle over an American hunter killing a wild animal started boiling over, his initial reaction was quite different from that of the pampered, privileged folks in the West. He recounts the tale in an op-ed published Tuesday in the New York Times.

When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered: One lion fewer to menace families like mine.

My excitement was doused when I realized that the lion killer was being painted as the villain. I faced the starkest cultural contradiction I’d experienced during my five years studying in the United States.

Did all those Americans signing petitions understand that lions actually kill people? That all the talk about Cecil being “beloved” or a “local favorite” was media hype? Did Jimmy Kimmel choke up …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns