http://onlineathens.com/around-here/2013-11-01/outdoors-group-gives-disabled-chance-go-hunting-madison-county
[Nothing against persons of disability, of course, but how natural or sustainable is it to help each and every member of a grossly overpopulated species effectively predate on any other species they wish to kill?]
At least 75 disabled people will join the second annual Northeast
Georgia Ultimate Adventure Deer Hunt next weekend in Madison County.
The hunt is sponsored by Outdoors Without Limits with support from Comer Mayor Jody Blackmon, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp and local landowners. The base camp for the two-day event will be at the Comer Fairgrounds.
“We’re totally inclusive. Anybody with any type disability — it doesn’t matter — they can participate,” said Kirk Thomas, executive director of Outdoors Without Limits. “We have no age limit.”
The hunters will gather Friday morning for registration, orientations, an afternoon hunt, and evening meal. The next day begins at 5 a.m. with breakfast followed by hunting teams again heading into the woods.
“Everyone on the hunt will have a guide with them,” said Thomas, who lives in the Winterville area. The two-day hunt benefits more than those who are challenged by disabilities.
“We’re asking the hunter and fishermen who love the outdoors to give a day and half of their time to make it happen for someone who otherwise would not have an opportunity,” he said. “It’s life changing and life saving.”
Thomas, who was paralyzed while hunting in November 1992 in Snow Hill, Ala., founded the nonprofit organization in 2008.
“This is the greatest blessing of my life to see these people have this opportunity,” he said. “I feel like the Lord has used me in what I have done.”
Thomas, who grew up in Meridan, Miss., said he was hunting when a tree fell on him, shattering two vertebra. Thomas, who was 6-foot-5 and 320 pounds, ended up in a hospital where his weight dropped to 225 pounds.
Doctors said he’d be hospitalized for six months, but he was released in 52 days and went back to selling heavy construction equipment. He left Mississippi in 1988 and went to work in Alabama for the Boy Scouts of America.
“I’m an Eagle Scout and both of my brothers are Eagle Scouts. The only thing Daddy wanted us to do was make Eagle. So we all made Eagle to honor him,” Thomas said.
Thomas and his family later moved to South Carolina where he worked for the Wild Turkey Federation for seven years before moving to the Athens area, where he directs Outdoors Without Limits, dedicated to creating opportunities for disabled people in outdoor related activities.
“The only way I know how to run this organization is like a big ol’ happy family and that’s everybody helping everybody,” he said.
Exposing the Big Game 
It’s “lifesaving”??? Give me a fucking break. I love how they make this seem like some charitable activity, but it’s only a push for more guns and more hunting, the sadist’s dream come true: psychopathy loves friendship.
Exactly.
Psychopaths are unable to actually have meaningful relationships long-term. Jobs either. The ones who tend to avoid the criminal justice system usually move around a lot. Thus no stats for them, except the usual ones for drifters, mostly moving violations, trespassing etc. Until they actually enter the system, not much can be done unless they prove to be a real danger to others. Unfortunatly, a houseful of deadly weapons won’t get them in trouble if they have all their paperwork in order. Unless they have convictions. So basically, they have to kill or seriously harm somebody first. Even that depends on circumstances.
But back to friends… they have clubs and organizations. But psychopaths really don’t have friendships in the normal way. I think they respect and fear others and join forces based on their warped ideas. Certainly dragging gimps out to kill is pretty warped. I can understand taking grampa out fishing, if that’s how he wants to spend his birthday. Not sport fishing but just sitting and talking by a brook and maybe he gets a bite, or not, it really doesn’t matter. But wheeling gimps out to kill animals? That’s just a freak show! Probably fun to watch for the crazies, who will probably post it online? After taking blind people hunting, really, is there anything more crazy they can dream up? They are more like a different species than a personality disorder! And I am a ‘gimp’, the last thing on Earth I would want to do is harm an innocent animal and cause it pain. Anyone who has suffered chronic pain most of their life should be more sensitive to animals and fellow human’s pain. If they are not, well, the shrinks would be taking notes, for sure!
I wonder how many disable folks are great shots but then again i guess the opportunity to kill outweighs the suffering of an animal wounded by someone with disabilities. Why cant’ they take the disabled out to celebrate life with a camera instead of destroying life with a weapon
Yep, just like some of these Make a Wish Foundation scenarios where they take a kid out to kill a magnificent bear. Why does anyone feel they have to kill to make themselves feel better?
Louise, I totally agree. I think someone should start a charity to recycle good used digital cameras for free to give to handicapped folks. And maybe one that the cops can supervise like a gun buy back program except they get a camera instead of cash?
Psychos recruiting and mentoring damaged psychos. “All inclusive.” So those with mental disabilities are good candidates for possessing and mastering weaponry? FANTASTIC idea! I actually found this so absurd that it’s borderline funny. Substitute “devil” for “Lord” in the the organization founder’s words — “I feel like the Lord has used me in what I have done,” and you get the real picture.
It is deeply disappointing to me that those unfortunate enough to suffer a disability not only don’t learn the gift of empathy toward others due to their disability but rouse themselves to spread the ugliness and exercise their brutal diminished power over other beings. A cynical “bravo” to those diminished hearts and minds.
There are similar “opportunities” for ill children, too. The Make a Wish Foundation comes to mind. They sound like a good charity to support, but I suggest you query your local chapter before donating. It was a deal breaker for me.
Great post!
That tree didn’t hit him hard enough.
As a person with disabilities from birth, who was forced to fight for his life for the first two years of it and stared death in face many times during those fragile years, I spit in disgust at this vile ungrateful dishonourable [human being]! Some people don’t deserve second chances.
Right, talk about squandering it.
Reblogged this on Wolf Is My Soul.
If these people want to get into sports, how about marathon wheelchair or handcycle racing?