Okay, I am going to preface this by saying I am not fond of the idea of paying thousands of dollars to go hunting for “trophies,” personally. However, I am not against hunting in general. That being said, I have been watching the “Cecil the Lion” story play out on social media and on the news over the past week.<\/p>\n

It’s a story that seems to have gotten more airtime on mainstream media\u00a0outlets than\u00a0the Planned Parenthood videos that were\u00a0released at\u00a0the same time, which show\u00a0dead baby body parts being sold in a manner that would make most people’s\u00a0stomachs turn.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about a society that gets frantic over\u00a0the story, sad as it is, of a dead lion halfway across the world, but chooses to ignore\u00a0babies killed on a daily basis here in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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Cecil, a 13-year-old lion in Zimbabwe was killed in an organized high-dollar game hunt by Dr. Walter Palmer, 55, a Minnesota dentist. Palmer has now gone into hiding, after the outrage surrounding his story and death threats from anti-hunting and animal rights activists.<\/p>\n

Palmer left a note for his patients that read, “I understand and respect that not everyone shares the same views on hunting.” He also added that he would “resume normal operations as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

Hundreds of protesters gathered Wednesday outside of his dental office with signs that said things like, “Let the hunter be hunted!”<\/p>\n

Twitter was also bursting with people wanting to do violent things to the hunter.<\/p>\n

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I want to shoot a particular American dentist with a crossbow #CecilTheLion<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Lewis (@MarkLewisLawyer) July 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n