Remember this: It doesn't take a psychic to predict the occurance of a bad event, if every decision with cause and effect is driving a narrative to a tragic end....for someone. It will eventually happen.
I was watching Jim Shockey's Uncharted a couple of nights ago on the Sportsman's Channel. There was this little umble dude about to fall off a log and the natives caught him. He put his face in the camera and spoke. He reminded me of Gru with hair. I heard someone call him Corey then I thought...wait a minute. I think that is the guy from the Black Rhino debacle. I finished watching the show and wanted to update myself by reading up on Corey Knowlton's endeavors to see what end it came to.
Most of the articles were stating his family's lives were in danger, the FBI got involved, he had security detail, animal activists where threatening his life and Anonymous got involved; or at least someone claimed to be Anonymous.
I looked at Knowlton and couldn't make my mind up over the fact that he looked sickly or stressed to death.
I then see this 19 year old cheerleader that has been in the news for lion hunting imagery circa Bachman. Some of the things being said here is the fact this person is excited over all the attention she is getting; good or bad. Of course, my first thoughts were that this had FBI written all over it. She truly is nothing more than bait.
No one really is looking at her accomplishments. This should have been relegated to her peers. She is now hashtagged the Happy Huntress, murderess, and a slew of other words. Her narrative right now is not an ambassador for hunting or conservation. Just a twat with a gun killing exotic animals; regardless of her age. Of course that is not my opinion because its futile with this subject matter but the people at large in the world.
The only reason I am writing this is a marker for myself. I want to see how much time will pass before the hunting and anti-hunting machine ends the life of a person. This could be through murder, suicide, happenstance, or whatever. This is not what I lay awake at night thinking about but somewhere it does bother me that it doesn't seem to bother anyone else. I guess if you play in traffic expect to get hit by the bus. I do go about my life and forget these thoughts until I see articles and disputes posted to the net.
The concern I have is this:
How do parents or the individual prostrate themselves or their children out publically to a world that has already exhibited an underlining murderous contempt for hunters? Simultaneously hunters have thrown gas on the fire of internet conversations, to invite something so negative into OUR world, in the name of hunting or conservation, which doesn't seem so positive anymore based on participants behavior.
I have no idea which way this situation will go. All I see is a group of people or an individual egged on by a group of people in hunting, while putting a target on themselves.
One bright day, an extremist person who is against the idea of hunting is going to decide to make a clear statement. This statement will be: one or more persons' losing life, limb, or being scarred for the rest of their life. Conditions over this topic are revolving. Its an escalating situation with lows and very big highs. Anything with this tendency will eventually peak or spill over.
Disturbed people kill for non-sensical reasons all the time en masse such as James Holmes, Elliot Rodgers, and the Columbine shootings. In the case of hunting, its pretty square the possible reasons an extremist will flip his or her lid. There doesn't seem to be any kind of damage control to hinder the progression of this kind of fall-out by death. If they are far enough away a gun will not help you.
Also the narrative of this young girl's life will be altered. The possibility the narrative will go in a negative direction to come back to bite her later in life is there. All this attention seems great right now but the downside comes quickly. When you can't even go out in broad daylight of your own freewill because you never really truly know if the people stalking you have gone away, is a lot for a young person to deal with.
The narrative I see is hunters re-enforcing liberty, freedom, and the right to hunt yet these online personalities are damning themselves to a form of self-incarceration. I have been confused for sometimes on the true reason for this. Hunting, conservation or celebrity? Now because of the pointless conversations in hunting, conservation is under fire.
Hunting participants as a whole are being chucked in with the bad behavior of online personalities that make way more money than the average man. I can not grasp the concept that in order to push conservation and hunting the best we can do as sportsmen and sportswomen is to use the most negative platform and podium to speak from. The other problem is it is not the voice of a hunting collective but a hypish frontperson that is stumbling over his words like Barney Phife whilst shooting us all in the foot, behind and the face for good measure. If you really want to do yourself a favor as a person who hunts, stop kissing Gluteus maximus just to be in the hunting cliche. (No, that is not a Roman Emperor).
I feel like there are established groups in the hunting echelon that think they are driving the narratives to protect and improve hunting when it is damaging hunting left and right. These groups that we can't see could not give two shits about the rest of the hunters because they want their agenda pushed. Their agenda is going to be the undoing of hunting and chokehold conservation, if it goes unchecked. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see this is a fear driven machine.
I feel truly empathetic towards this young girl because she is a tool in a game. She is just being used for some end that is temporary but the effects will loom over her for a lifetime. I hope she is at least getting a fat paycheck. If she is going to sell her soul young, she might as well be able to pay for a bodyguard.
Mark my words. Eventually someone, somewhere will lose their life or wish they had. Everybody involved will be asking themselves for what end or purpose did it ever serve.
Finally the only conclusion I can come to is an empty pointlessness. Someone is using a young female to anchor a dispute when there are better ways to argue the concept. This is nothing more than kindergarten school yard fighting, where kids hit each other in the back then run away; rinse and repeat. There is always that kid held as a shield to block the onslaught of blows. Kendall Jones just hasn't felt the full brunt of it yet. Ergo we could ask ourselves, why do grown adults act like children? For rhyme or reason, humans do things all the time that don't make sense.
Hunting is there for everyone; not just for a group with a political agenda.
I think I shall go vomit now.
Written by: W Harley Bloodworth
