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Oh yeah, Im no veganist or vegetarian, but there is a difference between killing animals for eating and killing them just for 'fun' and I dont think the kid will have a plate of grilled gator meat for his dinner tonight.
No.
To you as well.
Oh yeah, Im no veganist or vegetarian, but there is a difference between killing animals for eating and killing them just for 'fun' and I dont think the kid will have a plate of grilled gator meat for his dinner tonight.
They will be, also says that the gator was on their property.. so good thing the kid knew how to handle a gun:
Texas-born Simon Hughes, 5, doesn’t look intimidating. But put a gun in his hands and pit him against an 800-pound alligator and it’s a different story.
Simon's been training to handle a gun since he was just 4, his dad told MyFOXHouston — and it's a good thing, too, or else he could've gotten hurt by the mega-gator that wound up on the Hughes family ranch.
The huge alligator bit into a baited hook in a marsh on the property, coming face-to-face with Simon. The boy reacted with lightning speed, grabbing his gun and shooting the reptile in the head.
"It come out, the biggest alligator I've ever seen," Simon told MyFOXHouston. "He did his death roll."
The reptile was nearly 20 times the 3-foot, 44-pound boy’s size. It didn't survive the shooting.
His dad Scott Hughes said there's a reason he started training his son, who is in kindergarten, to shoot guns at such an early age.
"Everything on the ranch will either bite you or stick you," he told MyFOXHouston.
The little boy has now earned the nickname "Gator Bait."
"Simon was a champ, couldn't ask for any better. He was just fearless," said Chuck Cotton, a family friend who witnessed the shooting.
The family plans to cook up the meat to celebrate.
So does the child carry a gun all the time?The huge alligator bit into a baited hook in a marsh on the property, coming face-to-face with Simon. The boy reacted with lightning speed, grabbing his gun and shooting the reptile in the head.
And aren't you supposed to be liscensed in order to carry a weapon?
BULL
the gator was hooked and helpless. daddy handed little boy the gun. little boy shoots gatr in the face. cnn headline news!
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I have never shot any kind of real gun in my life. When my cousins and I would go over my uncle's house, he had a bunch of guns on display in his basement. We weren't wowed by the guns and never played with them and shot each other because we were uninformed about guns.
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the gator was hooked and helpless. daddy handed little boy the gun. little boy shoots gatr in the face. cnn headline news!
We should give five year old handguns and put them into a pit with a ferocious animal gladiator style. It could be a show on e TV. I'd watch it.
Not if your on your own ranch. Its private property. Granted it has to be large enough to be hunted on to be legal to fire weapons.
Fair, but youre the exception and I am not talking about 5yr olds, per say. I had friends who had never handled a gun until they were 16+. The only thing they knew about them was what they learned from movies and rap videos. They were dangerous because they had absolutely no frickin clue about them at all, if they were loaded, how to check...nothing.
Mother. er.
I am a hunter and a big hunting advocate and I found the parents and this whole video/report extremely embarrassing.
Not going to watch the video... Don't know the point of putting that kid out there on TV other than to get the parents some publicity and free flights to morning talk shows...
The gun/hunting opposition really doesn't suprised me. Makes me feel more like a dinosaur... People that hunt like me will be gone in a few generations as soon as the wild places go away and probably before "society" completely breaks down after the failure of pipe dream alternative energies. Wish I could be there when future urbanite of 2150 tries to re-learn the principal of the snare to catch feral cats for food.
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