Keep and Bear Arms
Home Members Login/Join About Us News/Editorials Archives Take Action Your Voice Web Services Free Email
You are 1 of 1843 active visitors Thursday, March 28, 2024
EMAIL NEWS
Main Email List:
Subscribe
Unsubscribe

State Email Lists:
Click Here
SUPPORT KABA
» Join/Renew Online
» Join/Renew by Mail
» Make a Donation
» Magazine Subscriptions
» KABA Memorial Fund
» Advertise Here
» Use KABA Free Email

» JOIN/Renew NOW! «
 
SUPPORT OUR SUPPORTERS

 

YOUR VOTE COUNTS

Keep and Bear Arms - Vote In Our Polls
Do you oppose Biden's anti-gun executive orders?
Yes
No
Undecided

Current results
Earlier poll results
4725 people voted

 

SPONSORED LINKS

 
» U.S. Gun Laws
» AmeriPAC
» NoInternetTax
» Gun Show On The Net
» 2nd Amendment Show
» SEMPER FIrearms
» Colt Collectors Assoc.
» Personal Defense Solutions

 

 


Keep and Bear Arms

Search:

Archived Information

Top | Last 30 Days | Search | Add to Archives | Newsletter | Featured Item


Self-defense shooting of charging rhino

Originally ran here as:
"Rhino Attacks Kruger Park Tourists"
Enviornment News Service
October 10, 2001

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, October 10, 2001 (ENS) - The Kruger National Park does not plan to end its wilderness walking tours in the bush after seven tourists narrowly escaped being hurt by an angry rhino on Sunday.

Kruger National Park director David Mabunda told Africa Eye News Service Tuesday that the attack on the hiking tourists was "normal."

"The fact that the rhino could be shot shows that our rangers are trained to deal with these situations," Mabunda explained.

The tourists from car rental companies were on the Harry Wolhuter trail near the Berg en Dal camp in the southwestern part of the park when a rhino bull charged at them. The group had just seen peaceful rhino mothers and their calves when the bull, which was about 400 meters away, suddenly charged at them.

Two rangers quickly moved the tourists behind a tree and tried to chase off the animal, but when it continued to charge, one ranger had to shoot it. A routine board of inquiry into the death of the rhino has found out that the rangers had no choice but to shoot the animal to save the tourists.

This is the second rhino attack on tourists walking on a trail in the past three years. In 1999 a white rhino was fatally shot by park rangers after charging tourists on the same trail.

The wilderness walking tours were pioneered by the Wilderness Leadership School about 30 years ago, and the Kruger Park has been offering them for over 20 years.


NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed, without profit, for research or educational purposes. We do our best, as well, to give credit to the original news source who published these Guns Save Lives stories out of respect and appreciation for their willingness to spread the word that Guns Save Lives -- and when an original link is available, we ALWAYS send all our visitors to read the original article on the original site where it was posted. God Bless the Americans that publish these stories - for assisting Americans in hearing the truth about guns saving lives.

Printer Version

 QUOTES TO REMEMBER
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. ~ Benjamin Franklin

COPYRIGHT POLICY: The posting of copyrighted articles and other content, in whole or in part, is not allowed here. We have made an effort to educate our users about this policy and we are extremely serious about this. Users who are caught violating this rule will be warned and/or banned.
If you are the owner of content that you believe has been posted on this site without your permission, please contact our webmaster by following this link. Please include with your message: (1) the particulars of the infringement, including a description of the content, (2) a link to that content here and (3) information concerning where the content in question was originally posted/published. We will address your complaint as quickly as possible. Thank you.

 
NOTICE:  The information contained in this site is not to be considered as legal advice. In no way are Keep And Bear Arms .com or any of its agents responsible for the actions of our members or site visitors. Also, because this web site is a Free Speech Zone, opinions, ideas, beliefs, suggestions, practices and concepts throughout this site may or may not represent those of Keep And Bear Arms .com. All rights reserved. Articles that are original to this site may be redistributed provided they are left intact and a link to http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com is given. Click here for Contact Information for representatives of KeepAndBearArms.com.

Thawte.com is the leading provider of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions used by enterprises, Web sites, and consumers to conduct secure communications and transactions over the Internet and private networks.

KeepAndBearArms.com, Inc. © 1999-2024, All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy