I generally don’t have problems with hunting, people do it for food, and most hunters I know are responsible people, who because they are hunting wild animals on their own territory, also are likely not to be able to get that much. I never understood game ranches, like the place Dick Cheney made famous a couple of years ago, where they basically shoot captive animals, sounds about as much as taking a small pond and stocking it with a lot of fish, not much fun in that.
As far as bow and arrow hunting goes, that takes a lot more skill than using a gun, and those who do it tend to take even less game, and are appreciative of what they get. I find trophy hunting to be pretty despicable, of any species, killing deer to get the head and leaving the carcass to rot is disrespecting the animal that gave up its life, and all that is is usually drunken idiots from the cities and suburbs showing off.
As far as this jerk goes, I like what someone else said, he is a small man trying to make himself look big, not to mention he is just practicing the old dodge of conspicuous consumption, because to get the licenses to kill big game iike that is very expensive, so it is quite flashy, I am sure he bragged to his friends about going to Africa and hunting and spending 55k on a hunting license and such. Yeah, I have heard the arguments, that the money these licenses bring in is used for conservation, but maybe a tiny willie owner like this guy could brag about donating 55k to save lions, rather than getting a license to kill them with it, but then again, considering the kind of people that likely would be friends with a jerk like this, they probably get off on him killing magnificent animals like this, too. I also wonder about this clown as a dentist, he might be like the dentist in “Little Shop of Horrors”, a sadist, from the accounts I read he shot the poor lion with arrows, the animal dragged itself off, and it took like 40 hours for the animal to weaken enough that our intrepid hero could bravely put some bullets in him and finish it. I generally have respect for the hunters I know, because one of the things they strive to do is make a clean kill and not have the animal suffer, and they hate the drunken buffoons who are a lower class version of this cretin, who don’t know how to hunt, and often leave the animal to die in agony because they are klutzes, and probably drunk.
I hope the people in the area he lives in stay away in droves, and that they shame people who try to use this clown’s services, someone who could do something like this is a weak stupid person IMO. It is funny, I was reading an account the other day how Randy Johnson (the retired pitcher) has taken up photography, and he was talking with pride about the pictures he caught of lions in the wild , true wildlife pictures, to me that is a lot more of a feat (though that does raise a question, if a lion saw Sandy Johnson, all 6’ 10 of him, who would be more scared, him or the lion? lol)