From the article: Under the rules, a hunter who pays a $25 entry fee and shoots the “most tails” wins a Smith and Wesson M&P 15-22 rifle. The shop is giving participants T-shirts with images of the animal and the words, “You’re killing me smalls.”
The latest contest has angered various animal rights groups who say New Mexico is earning a bad reputation for bizarre hunting events.
“New Mexico deserves so much better than for our state to be known as the capital of killing contests,” said Laura Bonar, Animal Protection of New Mexico’s program director.
Hi Jim and everyone, I missed you all while the system was down ( somebody put a tracking trojan into my facebook account) All fixed now. As for these gun shop owners promoting such vile activities as bounty hunting for weapons, I have come to believe these are as my aunt Phyllis says when she kills a fly… “a fly with no soul”. I guess it is an old Polish saying? These hunters who kill defenseless creatures are like that fly without a soul. I don’t know if they were born that way or they had their innocence beaten out of them but the end result is this lack of spiritual nature, which translates to respect and love for all of Earth Mother and her creatures is missing from bounty/trophey hunters and poachers. I suppose some raised in that hell do not know the difference? Some do, and spitefully do it anyway as an ego thing, then you got your serial killers of animals having a literal field day. I fear for all the creatures in New Mexico. Most seriously concerned for those few Mexican Gray Wolves. If W.S. can’t tell them from coyotes, I am sure these rednecks without a soul can’t either.
For most of them it’s an ego thing, like you mentioned. Either they are trying to boost they pride, or compensate for a low self esteem, the same kind of thing that motivates serial killer of human victims.
Yes, socio-economic based low self esteem plays a big roll in this for sure. I have wondered if there is some transference going on? Like certain creatures have, in the mind of the hunter, become “evil” just for being alive…as if they are an ex-wife or boss and are killed over and over again? Maybe I am diving too deep into the merky depths, but I have seen men kick a pregnant or lactating dog as if she was somehow causing him undo stress and that violence was his coping skill? Causing another creature to suffer pain says a lot more about the abuser than the creature, that just took a beating or a bullet or both and is left there dying to ponder whatever did I do to deserve this abuse?
Their low self-esteem isn’t necessarily related to their social-economic status. Some people have a high opinion of themselves and react violently when anything challenges it.
Yes, I have run into many of them over the years. That’s definately part of a different serial killer profile. Those are the “time bombs”.
Business people who do very well at their jobs profile the same as serial killers, it is just a matter of how they use their skill-sets.
I have had the misfortune of knowing several psychopaths in this lifetime. Aunt Phyllis was right, they are the flies without a soul. To have a soul, one must have a conscience. Serial killers lack both. That said… how do you profile a guy that runs a gun shop and baits his customers with a new gun by going out and bringing back tails? Is this guy reminding you of Robert Rogers ( 7 years war- Native perspective)? I’m wondering just how sick in the head he has to be to do what he does in public?
Yep, serial killers’ “trophies” are often body parts too.
Exposing the Big Game 
Here’s an article on the promoter of these evil “contest hunts,” the devout sales manager of Gunhawk Firearms, Josh Waters http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/nm-gun-shop-known-for-coyote-hunting-contest-holding-new-competition-targeting-prairie-dogs/2013/08/02/864c0d52-fb89-11e2-89f7-8599e3f77a67_story.html
From the article: Under the rules, a hunter who pays a $25 entry fee and shoots the “most tails” wins a Smith and Wesson M&P 15-22 rifle. The shop is giving participants T-shirts with images of the animal and the words, “You’re killing me smalls.”
The latest contest has angered various animal rights groups who say New Mexico is earning a bad reputation for bizarre hunting events.
“New Mexico deserves so much better than for our state to be known as the capital of killing contests,” said Laura Bonar, Animal Protection of New Mexico’s program director.
Hi Jim and everyone, I missed you all while the system was down ( somebody put a tracking trojan into my facebook account) All fixed now. As for these gun shop owners promoting such vile activities as bounty hunting for weapons, I have come to believe these are as my aunt Phyllis says when she kills a fly… “a fly with no soul”. I guess it is an old Polish saying? These hunters who kill defenseless creatures are like that fly without a soul. I don’t know if they were born that way or they had their innocence beaten out of them but the end result is this lack of spiritual nature, which translates to respect and love for all of Earth Mother and her creatures is missing from bounty/trophey hunters and poachers. I suppose some raised in that hell do not know the difference? Some do, and spitefully do it anyway as an ego thing, then you got your serial killers of animals having a literal field day. I fear for all the creatures in New Mexico. Most seriously concerned for those few Mexican Gray Wolves. If W.S. can’t tell them from coyotes, I am sure these rednecks without a soul can’t either.
For most of them it’s an ego thing, like you mentioned. Either they are trying to boost they pride, or compensate for a low self esteem, the same kind of thing that motivates serial killer of human victims.
Yes, socio-economic based low self esteem plays a big roll in this for sure. I have wondered if there is some transference going on? Like certain creatures have, in the mind of the hunter, become “evil” just for being alive…as if they are an ex-wife or boss and are killed over and over again? Maybe I am diving too deep into the merky depths, but I have seen men kick a pregnant or lactating dog as if she was somehow causing him undo stress and that violence was his coping skill? Causing another creature to suffer pain says a lot more about the abuser than the creature, that just took a beating or a bullet or both and is left there dying to ponder whatever did I do to deserve this abuse?
Their low self-esteem isn’t necessarily related to their social-economic status. Some people have a high opinion of themselves and react violently when anything challenges it.
Yes, I have run into many of them over the years. That’s definately part of a different serial killer profile. Those are the “time bombs”.
Business people who do very well at their jobs profile the same as serial killers, it is just a matter of how they use their skill-sets.
I have had the misfortune of knowing several psychopaths in this lifetime. Aunt Phyllis was right, they are the flies without a soul. To have a soul, one must have a conscience. Serial killers lack both. That said… how do you profile a guy that runs a gun shop and baits his customers with a new gun by going out and bringing back tails? Is this guy reminding you of Robert Rogers ( 7 years war- Native perspective)? I’m wondering just how sick in the head he has to be to do what he does in public?
Yep, serial killers’ “trophies” are often body parts too.