After recent social media backlash against the sport hunting industry, do you think sport hunting will continue, but hunters will no longer post and brag about it?

I don’t think anything will change. The only reason why this got such publicity is because it was a famous and frequently photographed lion. If it hadn’t been a famous lion – but instead just some average animal – this wouldn’t have even been mentioned.

This is the outrage-of-the-week – it is the middle of the dog days of summer, not much news going on, so the media blew this up in order to increase their ratings. But it will fade away from the public consciousness in days. As soon as there is something to attract the fickle public – like the color of Kim Kardashian’s nail polish, or the next politician to announce that he/she is having an affair.

The whole Cecil episode will be forgotten – by everyone – within a month. Passing fad. No serious changes will happen.

These people have no shame, so it isn’t as if social media will change their behavior other than to be discreet about it.

But the tide against sport game hunting has been shifting for a while; there has been negative coverage of others including Olivia Opre and Mindy Arthurs.

Kind of off the subject (glad it’s it social) a friend of my husbands is a “hunter,” if you can call sitting up in a tree, hiding, until a deer unsuspectingly comes within shooting range, “hunting.”
A long time ago he was talking about this “great shot” he made, where he shot a deer right through the lungs and it took a long time to die.
I said, “So, basically the deer just slowly suffocated to death?”
He threw me an impatient looks and said, “I suppose!”
Totally uncaring.
They don’t care but they do like to brag. So, no. It won’t change.

I’m glad my husband hates hunting.

Doubtfully but at least there is enough out rage to shame the pants off these neanderthal sport/trophy hunters fir the moment. I really, really hope that sport hunting, especially of exotic big game animals and the big cats will go the way of smoking in the next decade or two.
It’s one thing to hunt deer or other game for survival needs but there is no good reason, ever, to kill and mutilate an animal just so you can pose with it’s dead body and lop off its head to decorate your man cave. Pffft!

I don’t think it will change much. Parents still slap their kids in public, and that gets plastered on the news now and then.

Maybe making people more cognizant of it will make them want to push a law restricting hunting or something.

I heard some airlines now won’t carry hunting “trophies.”

This week, Zimbabwe has stopped trophy hunting. And Delta, American, and United (airlines) have all banned animal hunting trophies.

So, that looks like just American (country) airlines so far? Or, I wonder if it is other countries too, but that hasn’t been reported in our news?

@zenvelo: I heard about the trophy hunting ban the other day. Knowing what I know about politics, I am thinking it’s just for “show” that they put the ban in place. As we all know, unless it’s enforced, it’s worthless.

Awesome about the airlines! Setting a precedent maybe.
I guess if you want to bring back an animal head it will have to be on a slow boat from Zimbabwe.

@Coloma From what I understand at least one Canadian airline isn’t banning it. I’m not sure about Latin American and European airlines, but it seems like there are still options to get back to America. You just might have to drive a little once you enter back into the US.