Stop Shooting Zoo Animals Because People Are Stupid

I'm not typically one of those animal loving PETA members who value animals over humans. I ate an insanely good burger last night, and I plan to double-down on my cow intake with an even better steak tonight (both from the Tuckaway Tavern Butchery in Raymond, NH, which is tremendous and should give me free stuff for mentioning them here).

I'm also not anti-zoo and I really don't care what's going on in Seaworld.

That said, let's stop shooting animals because people are morons.

First there was the moron who tried to commit suicide by stripping naked and jumping into a Lion enclosure. Rather than allowing him to die as nature would have intended, the zoo shot and killed 2 of the lions.

The lions did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong, other than being lions and trying to eat the food that was literally throwing itself at them.

What would of happened had they not shot the gorilla, probably.

Then yesterday, some negligent parent allowed their 4 year old son to fall into a gorilla enclosure at a Cincinnati zoo.

Despite the fact that I'm pretty confident this is how the story of Tarzan started, and that the gorilla definitely would have ended up being a better parent than the kid's real parents, the zoo shot and killed the gorilla so they could presumably give the kid back to the same parents that lost him to the gorilla in the first place.

(Holy shit that was a long sentence.)

How about next time we let the gorilla have the kid and shoot the parents?

And for god's sake if someone strips naked and jumps into an enclosure filled with large animals that can kill him, save your bullets.