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Reporters were able to find footage
from back in 2013 that
shows Wayne LaPierre.
The NRA is chief executive,
attempting and failing to kill
an elephant multiple times.
Now, this footage was originally
supposed to be released by an NRA
sponsored program.
As I describe it,
you will quickly realize why
they didn't end up using it.
I understand that the footage is
available and I briefly
considered playing it on the show.
And then as I watched, I realized
there's no way that I'm doing that
because this is terrible.
It reflects poorly on
Wayne LaPierre has pretty much
anything he's ever said or done.
So here's what happened.
The footage of Wayne LaPierre in
Botswana first shows him walking
through the bush dressed in
loose-fitting safari attire.
And you really should see at least
that part of it.
because man, these people think
that cosplay is ridiculous and
they can't wait
to cosplay certain characters.
He has an NRA Sports baseball
cap on.
Accompanied by several professional
guides and as longtime adviser
the host of Under Wild Skies.
What they were going to
be releasing us on.
After guide spots an elephant
standing behind a tree LaPierre
takes aim with a rifle.
As he peers to the weapon's scope,
the guide repeatedly tells him to
wait before firing.
LaPierre who's wearing earplugs
doesn't hear the instructions and
pulls the trigger.
The elephant drops.
He says, did we get him, kind of?
They shot him. It just didn't kill
him.
So now they
need to kill the elephant.
The guide points at point blank
range mind you.
Where LaPierre needs to fire
another round to kill the elephant.
LaPierre fires apparently missing.
But hitting the elephant three
more times before the host
finally finishes off the elephant.
That has now been shot four times
already and is dying slowly in
seemingly great agony.
After that, the guide says
of LaPierre marksmanship,
you dropped him like no tomorrow.
It's one of those.
We've got more on the rest
of the LaPierre family.
But this is Wayne LaPierre,
the ultimate gun guy.
The ultimate alpha hunting in
the wild, in the Safari Jr.
and it's where they didn't want to
release the footage afterward.
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>> I wonder why actually it was
talk about the bad PR.
Isn't that or is it the bad PR?
The bad PR is his overall their
conclusion.
Is the bad PR because
of the brutality of the way
that they mowed down the elephant.
And kept shooting them in
the wrong place.
Or is it the embarrassment of
the head of the NRA?
Talking about how awesome he is,
and yeah,
talking practice guides downs and
he can't even shoot an elephant.
A good guy with a gun
is better than is what we need when
there's a bad guy with a gun is
what Wayne LaPierre likes to say.
Apparently, if the bad guy with
the gun is the size of an elephant,
the good guy with a gun
can't do anything about it anyway.
Because the elephant still can't
get shot in the correct spot.
So this guy is taken on a tour of
a hunt.
He's not hunting.
He's taken on a tour of a hunt with
cameras for the sole purpose of
selling this to more people who
want to talk their gun and
hunting culture.
But this is not hunting.
If you want to sell football
to Americans that love football
because America's pastime is
football.
But then if you saw some amateurs
that are stumbling over themselves
and can't snap the ball or hand
the ball off to the running back.
Football fans are going to go,
why am I watching this garbage?
They suck.
So why would good old gun nuts be
impressed by you loser who can't
shoot an elephant.
Shooting it 17 times before you can
before someone else has to kill
it for you?
Again, shooting elephants because
first of all,
that idea sounds really good.
And that's really [CROSSTALK] men.
>> They liked the idea of it that
they're Safari hunters.
I don't,
I literally do not understand what
part of hunting is in this.
Did he stock it for the safari?
Did he?
No, he walked up and
he executed him.
These are elephants that
are trained to be totally cool with
humans being near them.
This is no more hunting.
Then it would be hunting If they
painted an elephant on a wall and
he shot that correlate
>> [CROSSTALK] And shot the wall
most times first >> And then later
on his wife kills an elephant.
She actually apparently did it.
She comments on how old it is.
How wrinkled it wasn't and
says victory.
You don't like the thing
you say after some big struggle or
challenges overcome.
She executed an old elephant and
then decided she needed a trophy.
So she cut its tail off and said,
that's my elephant tail.
Way cool.
There's never been anything less
cool than what I just read for you.
The entire thing is absolutely
appalling.
And look, again, this isn't even
about hunting because this isn't
hunting.
My father was a hunter.
He was a bow hunter.
The hunted deer growing up, okay?
That was at least in
theory hunting.
This is animal execution.
This is walking up to an amazing on
spiring animal and wanting to be
the thing that blows his head off.
That's all this is.
And I understand some
people respond.
Well no, John, what you don't
understand is that they do this.
They sell this for conservation.
No, I get that.
The reason they do that is
because there's a market for
murdering elephants.
In theory, these rich
could just donate the money.
If what they really care about is
the conservation, not the murder,
then take out that
part of the equation.
Pay 70,000 to pose for
a picture with the elephant rather
than blowing its face open.
You could do that,
they choose not to.
It's not about the conservation.
It's about murdering something big
and feeling like a big guy because
you executed something,
that felt no fear.
That felt perfectly comfortable
standing in front of you.
A complex emotional animal.
In response to the story people
have been telling all this
information about the broad range
of emotional
experiences of elephants.
Elephants mourn their dead.
When their children are in danger
or injured, they freak out.
They swayed them music.
These are complex creatures.
And Wayne La Pierre just wants
to shoot it.
He wants to be the guy that
slowly killed this thing.
Is that different than wanting to
film us do a self film?
Like to walk up to someone sit in
a chair and blow their head away?
Maybe in some fashion.
I'm not a philosopher feels very
similar to me though.
>> Well I mean people throughout
history have been murdering other
people that they feel are that
their superior to.
Anyway for sport as well.
So they would like to do it with
humans as well.
But they always did before and
not only do it in covert
ways until they get caught.
So other part about this is,
his wife decides to cut off
the tail of the elephant and
it's cool, it's mine.
So what do you do with it then?
What do you do with the severed
elephant's tail because it's flesh.
It's going to shrivel up and
turn into some black lime sitting.
There going to put in a capsule,
you can put on your mantle.
Is going to be on your
bedside table.
What's the use of the trophy of
the tail?
Now for that very second,
you maybe feel good,
cutting it off and
feel like real human.
But then what do you do with it?
What's the point?
>> I can answer.
They cut its feet off.
The front feet,
they turn them into stools.
So they could sit on its foot.
>> And then the tail doesn't have
much of a use as far as I don't
know anything else afterwards.
So maybe just use the swap to your
rich friends.
Hey, so we went on this elephant.
Not hot but this elephant tracking.
And we just follow this elephant
shot it in his head several times
and he cut off its tail.
Isn't that cool?
If my friend [CROSSTALK] no,
you kind of suck at this.
Actually where's the skill in that?
Why should I be impressed with you?
What did you do that I couldn't do?
That gives you the option to have
this elephant's tail in your house
and try to show it off to me.
What's so awesome.
>> It would be like if you had tied
someone to a chair, and I walked up
and shot them in the head.
And said, I'm John Wick.
I'm an assassin.
So you killed something that's
literally all that you did.
You killed a thing.
And then you had weird mementos
of it.
>> All shows as you're good at not
giving a damn about creatures.
And actually not even
having any skill.
And when you take one out,
whatever kind of.
Even the people were impressed by
you being able to take it out,
they shouldn't be
impressed by this anyway.
>> God
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