A Gun Rights Viewpoint of the Orlando Shooting: How the political left is seeking to purge America of traditionalists

For those who aren’t familiar with guns, here is the viewpoint of the Orlando shooting from knowledgeable gun rights advocates.  These are the type of people who represent traditional America.  Progressives of course are trying to make people like these extinct, which is just another form of Hitler like supremacy from the political left–discrimination to the extreme.  What progressives are trying to do to people like these two nice young men is equivalent to every social purge that has ever occurred in history.  The only difference is that the attempt is being conducted under the ruse of “legislation.”

Buy a gun today, join the NRA and protect the Second Amendment from a government that has lost control and is seeking to protect themselves from an angry public.

Rich Hoffman

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Keeping Exits Open in a Gay Night Club: Why we need bazookas, rocket launchers and assault weapons under the Second Amendment

I do feel sorry for Jo Cox from the British Parliament and all the gay people in Orlando caught in that shooting, but in the wake of all that tragedy are some very alarming elements which have shown themselves.  First of all, England has some very vigorous “weapons” controls, yet Mrs. Cox was still murdered in the streets of England by a conspiracy laced madman supposedly out of dedication to England voting to leave the EU.  Honestly, that story is a little too convenient—good thing I’m not a conspiracy theorist—because the numbers don’t look good for England to remain in the EU.  Regardless of the motive, leftists were quick to use the tragedy of Jo Cox to rally sympathy toward the efforts to keep England bound to the rest of Europe—at least for now.  And the same thing happened in Orlando.  Look, that Pulse nightclub was not a happy place—it was a gay bar intending social debauchery.  That aspect of course was covered by the murder of 49 people but it was a place of detriment to begin with.  However, in the wake of the tragedy, the world is broadcasting rainbows in solidarity with gay rights activists and before you could blink, liberals everywhere were promoting gay lifestyles and attacking guns—rather than the root cause which was Islamic terrorism.

It is precisely this kind of madness which is why we have the right to not only guns, but assault weapons of every kind.  In all these tragedies, the governments have really screwed up, and we need the means to remove them from power if elections prove unsuccessful.  That is why we have guns of every kind covered under the Second Amendment—from muskets to rocket launchers.  England with all its laws couldn’t keep a deranged person from killing one of its rising stars in parliament and no laws in the United States would keep lunatics like that ISIS pledging scum bag in Florida from killing masses of people at will.  (I find it astonishing that nobody in that gay club rushed the shooter between weapon loads.  The killer had time to call people, make posts on Facebook and keep fresh magazines in his weapon without anybody challenging him.  To me, that is a bigger problem.  The issue certainly isn’t gun control, it’s the ridiculous notion that in a room full of men—nobody had the guts to charge the assailant.)  As a nation, we have really destroyed the valor of our young people through public education.  And even worse than all that, the Pulse nightclub had all their exits locked up with only one way in or out.  Who would ever think that a “gay” club would even metaphorically block up an “exit.”  They love exits, I would think they’d have them open everywhere—if they did, a lot more people would be alive right now, that’s for sure.

The real villains are these idiots calling for gun control before the smoke even cleared the barrels in Florida.  Within two days Jo Cox was killed by a gun—and a knife—in a country where even thinking about those kinds of things are outlawed.  Gun control laws do not work or make our country safer.  But what they do perform is taking the light off the idiots who created all these problems, and when they refuse to leave office and continue to run our police, and military, there may come a day where we have to have those weapons to maintain our country from domestic enemies—as well as foreign.  In that spirit, I want not only AR-15s, but bazookas, rocket launchers and whatever I can get.  Because idiots are running our government and in the wake of the tragedies they created, they are demanding we trust them more and give up our guns.  Sorry, that is not going to happen.  Government couldn’t keep a bunch of gay people safe with proper fire codes, they raised through government schools a bunch of wimps, and they let radical Islamic fanatics roam the streets after two FBI investigations and who knows what collected through the NSA.  I am likely higher on the terrorist watch list than the Orlando shooter because I’m a white guy and Tea Party supporter in the way government profiles people.  No, government has made plenty of mistakes and giving up our guns to them—even machine guns—would be a mistake.

Once again dear reader, I’d encourage you to join the NRA today, then Second Call Defense.  Buy a gun—no buy two or three guns.  Learn to use those guns, get a concealed carry permit and learn to be a good guy with a gun.  One thing is for sure, we’d be safer with you carrying a gun than relying on these stupid people running our governments to provide even basic security.  They can’t even keep the exits open in a gay nightclub—and that is the ultimate failure.

The world has gone mad.  We need guns now more than ever.

Rich Hoffman

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West Chester Defends Community from Vile Swingers Club: Understanding that anti-family policy destroys capitalist endeavors

 

Anybody who lives in West Chester today should send some praise to the people currently running it.  They have successfully staved off an outward attack from a vile “swingers club” with a small settlement.  The Sanford Group targeted West Chester on purpose.  They could have located the business just across the township line in the now decrypted Fairfield but chose to attempt to dirty up West Chester’s image with decadence.  While it would have been nice to avoid paying those promoters of sin and debauchery anything—the West Chester administration did the best that they could given that the legal system seemed to align its values with the swingers.  The opportunity cost to West Chester business would have far exceeded the cost of the settlement.

WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) – –

 A suburban township has settled a lawsuit by Indiana-based adult club owners who had planned to open a swingers club in southwest Ohio.

The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports Melissa Warren and Eric Adams of Sanford Group LLC planned to open the sexually oriented business in West Chester but found their business license and zoning certificate had been revoked in November.

Township officials and Sanford Group reached a settlement that calls for Warren and Adams not to open another such sexually oriented business or similar use in town.

The township agreed to pay Sanford Group $61,000 and the site’s landlord $29,000 toward unpaid rent.

http://www.fox19.com/story/32244932/west-chester-settles-lawsuit-with-swingers-club-owners

To illustrate my point, now that the Sanford Group knows the future of their West Chester location, they are absolutely free to attempt to get some very cheap rent at the old Forest Fair Mall location, which is very near where they proposed to set up shop over this contentious issue.  After all, if they really just wanted to set up an adult swingers club, the reputation of the Forest Fair Mall location would have been much more lucrative.  That mall is now a dead mall, which was once a vibrant place because management around Fairfield and Forest Park botched the deal over a twenty year period. High taxes and bad policy destroyed the mall—specifically allowing the location to be a hangout for young unsupervised people and night club goers.  For a time, Forest Fair Mall opened an entire wing in front of what became Burlington Coat Factory to bars and nightclubs which essentially destroyed the appeal to lucrative businesses thinking of locating there.  Then there was the meat market nightclub called Metropolis which further solidified the death of Forest Fair Mall.  A lot of people got laid, cheated on spouses, and behaved in a generally despicable manner, but the cost was enormous to the region.  Families stayed away from the mall and scum bags took over, and Forest Fair Mall—one of the largest in the country—died.

What happened in West Chester is called, “management.”  They protected the community for future capitalist growth while discouraging vile businesses rooted in sexual proclivity from destroying that culture.  That is what the purpose of zoning is supposed to be.  Sadly it still cost money to make bad people go away, largely because a judge ruled in favor of the swingers club—probably because he wanted to attend the place.  But the West Chester trustees worked the situation well and kept those sexual provocateurs away so that the families of West Chester and the business owners trying to expand their efforts could do so without the disgrace of an embarrassment conducting business just down the street.  A tip of the hat to the good guys within West Chester for a job well done.

Rich Hoffman

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Donald Trump’s Presidential Strategy: Hillary will soon be begging for it all to end

Apparently there are some out there who are worried that Hillary Clinton is up on Donald Trump in the polls and that there is a risk of her winning the presidency completing the long-held plan by progressives to destroy America from within.   I know it’s scary, after all most of the media is in the bag for Hillary, along with Hollywood, the music industry, every public education institution, and every public sector union—and by the time you add up all those numbers, conservatives like you and I are in the extreme minority.  But—Trump has a plan and he is fulfilling it.  With only Hillary and the failed Obama legacy left between him and the presidency, he won’t allow himself to lose easily.  In fact, I am sure he will do anything and everything to win and he will start with her prime weakness—which as of June 15th, 2016—he is already exploiting.  Hillary is entitled and used to having things given to her—and she has assumed that the media would give her the presidency just because she’s a woman.  Trump is about to exploit her expectations to his advantage—just watch.

I’ve had the fortune to be in a lot of fights with people over the years—and many of the times the people were bigger and stronger than I was.  But unlucky for them which has always been the case—100% of the time—I was always smarter.   When a big hulking creature wanted to fight 7 times out of 10 they smoked cigarettes—because they were young and wanted to look tough so it usually fit their overall persona—so I’d know from the start of the fight that within 30 seconds, they’d start huffing and puffing, gasping for air.  That’s when you unleash on them a fury they can’t defend and by minute 1 minute 30 seconds, they were bloody heaps begging for an end to the conflict.  That’s when you hit them hard and make it so that they never think of picking on anybody—or fighting anybody, ever again.

Trump has Hillary right where he wants her, on the defensive, responding to his every attack.  He’s in Barack Obama’s head—clearly, forcing the last days of the current POTUS begging the collective Republican Party to come to his aid.  But there is nobody who can help them—either Obama or Hillary.  Trump is a machine who will run day and night for the next four months and in the last quarter as Hillary is gasping for air, the fatal blow will drop knocking her not only out of the race, but out of politics forever—in disgrace.  That is how Trump does things.  I understand that type of thinking—it is how winners, win—even when they are outmatched by sheer size and numbers.

Trump has campaign stops all over the nation scheduled during a time when the candidates are typically resting a bit before the summer surge toward their respective conventions.   Trump is on TV every day and speaking to thousands of people all over the country literally every day and he could do that pace likely for the rest of his life.  True, Trump just turned 70 years old, but he works like young man in his twenties and he can beat that old hag Hillary with sheer force.  She thought it was difficult to keep up with Bernie Sanders who at times had Hillary sounding like a haggard old worn out woman.  She won’t be able to keep up with the pace of Trump and it won’t take long for the fatigue to set in.

If you’ve ever watched a marathon, Hillary is like those runners who jump out to an early lead sprinting along wearing herself out.  In her case she can afford to because she has been told that all she has to do to become POTUS is show up at the finish line—because everything else is all worked out.  But a quarter way through the race, fatigue starts setting in and they begin feeling that tightness in their muscles and the overwhelming desire to stop to take a break.  That’s usually when the smarter runners overtake the early sprinters. By the Fourth of July, Trump will be fresh on Hillary’s heels watching her wear down and she’ll begin struggling to keep running.  Her old saggy ass will start showing the signs, her shoulders will slump, the bags under her eyes will fill with a few more doughnuts eaten on the road to give her instant energy—fake energy to continue looking good for the cameras.  That’s when she’ll realize she doesn’t have enough gas in the tank to beat Trump and the media will begin to grudgingly admit the problem amongst themselves.  Then she’ll get hit with one of the most boisterous Republican conventions in history.   Then following that will be a major motion picture called Hillary’s America and the low information voters will then discover things about her that they didn’t know.  That’s when Trump will really get started.  Daily he will beat on Crooked Hillary and the media won’t have an answer.  Obama will get even more defensive as his days in the White House come to a close and a silent desperation will begin to set in.

By September and October, the ragged, hag Crooked Hillary will limp into the presidential debates and Trump will slaughter her with wit and his knack for speaking off the cuff of his sleeve leaving her completely off message, and script which is her vulnerability.  That is when she’ll sink like a rock.  She’ll be exhausted and begging for an end to it.  Then Trump will hit her so hard that it will end her forever.

So get ready, this is going to be a lot of fun for those of us on the conservative side who have simply had enough and we’re not going to take it anymore.  Our time is coming for a change and I’m not planning to be graceful about it.

Rich Hoffman

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Channel 9 Visits Premier Shooting Range in West Chester: Sheriff Jones backs civilian ownership of guns

I just happen to know most of the people in the informative Channel 9 piece on gun sales increases and demand for concealed carry permits that took place at the wonderful Premier Shooting and Training Center in West Chester, Ohio.  When I spotted the news van outside I was concerned that Channel 9 might attempt a story about more gun control, which would be a terrible mistake.  But they were fair, and it was actually informative.  So here it is if you missed the live broadcast.  I disagree with Sheriff Jones about a lot of things as he is too liberal for me.  But, he is completely correct in what he says to Channel 9 about guns.  Bravo Jonsey.

If you are in the market for a gun and want to learn how to use it, you should stop by and see the very good people who run the Premier Shooting and Training Center.  It is a one stop shop for everything you need to get started and maintain an interest in guns.  When times get tough like they are now, the safest things you can do is to not only buy a gun to defend your home and loved ones, but to vote with your wallet and let Washington D.C. know how you feel by spiking the sales which speaks louder than any lobbyist group could dream of for either pro or con stances on firearms.  The shooting range at Premier is one of the best in the Tri-State area.  It is a classy, clean place with a very professional staff.  They are great people and represent the best of what America has to offer.  If you are a seasoned shooter, you won’t be disappointed.  But if you are new, they will make you feel at home.  You can learn more at the following link:

http://www.premiershootingandtraining.com/

Rich Hoffman

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Donald Trump’s Chances of Becoming President Just Increased: Deport and lockup all radical Islamic fanatics–ISIS needs our answer

 

According to a political science professor at Long Island’s Stoney Brook University he believes the statistical odds of businessman Donald Trump becoming the next president are between 97 and 99 percent.  After the Orlando shooting, those odds went up dramatically.

That professor, Helmut Norpoth, says his statistical forecast model shows the Manhattan mogul’s chances of beating Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton are at 97 percent, while his chances of defeating Bernie Sanders are at 99 percent. Overall, the model predicts that there is a 61 percent chance that a Republican will win the White House in November.

Norpoth, who announced his model’s results earlier this week, says his model is very accurate — and has been for 104 years. The statistical model, which uses a candidate’s performance in their party’s primary in addition to electoral cycle patterns, has correctly predicted the general election outcome for every presidential election dating back to 1912.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/02/25/professor-who-says-his-statistical-model-has-accurately-predicted-election-outcomes-for-104-years-unveils-odds-of-a-president-donald-trump/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Firewire%20Morning%20Edition%20Recurring%20v2%202016-02-26&utm_term=Firewire_Morning_Test

The only presidential candidate—actually–the only person running for any office to provide a plan to defeat ISIS has been Donald Trump.  So when it comes to this November’s election, Donald Trump represents an actual answer to this terrorist problem—as opposed to perpetual news coverage and a feeling of victimization that is never-ending.  People like me voting in this election expect results and Trump is the only one promising any.  That makes him the only possible pick.

Hillary and her former boss, Barack Obama have created ISIS due to their administration policies of spreading the Islamic caliphate around the Mediterranean.  I don’t think they intentionally created ISIS, but that they just mismanaged the situation due to their radical hatred of American sovereignty and foreign intervention in the Middle East region.  Regardless, the trouble in the United States with increasingly persistent radical Muslim ideologies falls right on the doorsteps of the White House and Hillary was a part of that creation.  That will pretty much destroy Hillary’s campaign now that this terrorist event has happened a few months before the presidential election.

At the beginning of the week of June 12th 2016 Trump plans a breakdown of Hillary Clinton and why she is not fit to be president of the United States.  He had an easy job before this shooting, but now it is much easier for him.  ISIS is Hillary’s baby as Secretary of State and now they have brought blood to the homeland she wants to lead.  The election will go to Trump and when he wins, the first advisable thing to do would be to scoop up every terrorist sympathizer and put them on lock down.  This should happen before we all have to go through the pain of increased TSA, NSA and FBI investigations giving up more of our freedoms, the groups who actually cause all these problems should be the first to have their rights trampled for the security of our nation.  It’s not Christians doing these shootings, and it’s not Confederate Flag waving intolerant southerners.  It’s radical Islamic terrorists homegrown in this case, but inspired by foreign insurgents who have in the past had the sympathies of the White House.

We either deport these people or we go to war with them in the streets of America. There aren’t any other options.  Donald Trump’s solution may not be “politically correct.”  It may go against “The Law Of One,” which secret society types, one world order maniacs, and political losers like Mitt Romney are so committed to—but I’m not, and neither is Donald Trump—and many others of us who are sick of these mismanaged events caused by stupid politicians who believe all the wrong things.  I don’t believe in “The Law of One.”  So scoop up the terrorists and all those Islamic idiots who say crazy things on Facebook and either deport them, or lock them up.  We are at war and when we sort everything out, we can figure out how to integrate them back into society.  But first, we need to send a message to ISIS—swiftly.  And we can’t care whose feelings get hurt along the way.  It doesn’t matter.  The people causing all the trouble are the ones who need to feel the pain.  And of all the people who are in positions of leadership, the only one with a plan is Donald Trump.  I simply can’t wait for him to take office.

Rich Hoffman

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Omar Mateen’s Jihad Against Gays in Orlando Shooting: Blame Obama, not guns for the violance

A federal law enforcement official told USA TODAY the suspect has been identified as Omar Mateen and said investigators were reviewing the attacker’s possible utterances that may provide more specific information about a terror ideology or affiliation. The official, who was not authorized to comment, characterized the attack as “certainly’’ terrorism. It was not immediately clear whether investigators were aware of the attacker prior to the assault.

Mina said the gunman was armed with an assault rifle, a handgun and some sort of unidentified device. Officers from multiple agencies and dozens of emergency vehicles responded to the scene. Orange County Fire and Rescue called for gurneys to move victims from the club.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/06/12/shooting-orlando-club/85785254/

There have been a lot of shootings this past weekend in Orlando, Florida—one of my favorite cities in the world.  With an armed robbery at a Wal-Mart Thursday, then the shooting of a young girl and former Voice contestant Friday night by a solitary gunman, the Jihadist terrorist attack of a LGBT nightclub called “The Pulse” was the most violent, by far.  As of this writing, 50 dead and about 50 sent to the hospital.  So who is to blame?  Well, in all these situations the fault is uniformly on the political left for following Saul Alinsky strategies seen below toward collapsing society.

AlinskyFor one, progressives have been very active in promoting the dreadful conditions of LGBT living and late night orgies of low mentality sexual promiscuity.  Then on the other hand they have stoked the fires of Jihad by opening American borders and throwing a violent Islamic culture onto our doorsteps putting the two ideologies together with the hope that violence would erupt and that they could fulfill Alinsky’s strategy of removing guns from American society so that terrorists would have an easier time of destroying America for aims of progressive desires for world unification under their rule.

I would suggest dear reader that you respond to this violent event by buying a gun today, signing up for Second Call Defense—to protect yourself legally. (You can do that at the below link) Then make sure you are a member of the NRA in hopes that they might continue their efforts at preserving peace through their powerful lobby so that you might not ever have to use your guns to defend your lives and property from these radical progressive elements strategically put in place to destroy our culture.  If it is happening in Orlando-it will be coming to your doorsteps soon—and you’ll want to be ready when it does.

The fault for The Pulse shootings in Orlando, Florida I would place directly on the Obama administration and those connected to it.  It is really his failed policies which created the battlefield on both sides.  He and his kind have followed Saul Alinsky and this is what you get.  Guns are the solution to stopping future violence.  Jihad and advocates of it are the villains, and it’s time we designate such things in the proper scope.  If people want to follow Jihad they belong on the sand baked deserts of the Middle East where there is no economy or opportunity because of their long acceptance of collectivist based philosophies which has destroyed their ability to develop, culturally.  You can’t just plop Jihadists into one of the finest capitalist cities on planet earth and expect them to put up with differing viewpoints—like gay people dancing the night way—literally.  It wasn’t guns that caused the problem.  It was progressives and their Saul Alinsky inspired insurgencies.

Rich Hoffman

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San Francisco Judges Rule Against the 2nd Amendment: The reason we should all carry guns

This is what happens when people who come from different places around the world, or adhere to values that are not fundamentally “American” find themselves in positions to rule over others.

LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the Second Amendment of the Constitution does not guarantee the right of gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public, upholding a California law that imposes stringent conditions on who may be granted a concealed-carry permit.

The 7-to-4 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, overturned a decision by a three-judge panel of the same court and was a setback for gun advocates. The California law requires applicants to demonstrate “good cause” for carrying a weapon, like working in a job with a security threat — a restriction sharply attacked by gun advocates as violating the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

“Based on the overwhelming consensus of historical sources, we conclude that the protection of the Second Amendment — whatever the scope of that protection may be — simply does not extend to the carrying of concealed firearms in public by members of the general public,” the court said in a ruling written by Judge William A. Fletcher.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/us/second-amendment-concealed-carry.html?_r=0

Those judges voting against the Second Amendment of course are wrong.  Guns in American culture are like pasta to Italians, rice to Asians, Fish & Chips to the British, arm pit hair for the French, feathers to the Indian, or piñatas to the Mexicans.  It is disrespectful to come to America and proclaim that guns should be removed from our culture.  There is nothing wrong with people from other countries coming to America to live the American dream, but it is wrong for them to seek to change anything about the freest country on earth with the garbage they ran from in the first place.  It is in that spirit of “change” that Judge William A. Fletcher provided the ruling reflecting the 7-4 decision.

All I can say to those people is that if they don’t understand the language of the 2nd Amendment then perhaps we need another revolution where we can make it a bit clearer for them.  Because that is the only path that is acceptable—removing guns from America just isn’t with incremental rulings against the 2nd Amendment to reshape our culture.  California is showing that immigration has destroyed its heritage as a sovereign state within America.  And they intend to infect the rest of our country with the same strategy.  That is of course why we should all carry guns—everywhere.

Rich Hoffman

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Pictures of Mainak Sarkar the UCLA Shooter: Notice he’s not a “white redneck”

One of the reasons the political left is so obsessed with skin color is because they like to hide their misdeeds behind racism.   But they don’t like to talk about people from other places around the world who come to America but have difficulty merging with the freedom tendencies of our culture.  Failures who come from more collectivist based cultures who don’t assimilate well such as Mainak Sarkar, an Indian guy at UCLA who shot his professor while in class, are typically ignored by the media because they don’t advance progressivism.  So here is a picture of him allowing the image to speak thousands of words of explanation.

Mainak Sarkar Photos: Must-See Pictures of UCLA Shooter

As much as the political left makes fun of people who wear cowboy hats, drive pick-up trucks, and tend to thump the Bible adhering to traditional values–the typically “white” males usually associated with “redneck” culture are not the ones doing all the mass shootings and having a hard time living in America.  It’s creations of the political left who have all the trouble–and thus, the fault for the UCLA shootings resides squarely on their shoulders.

Rich Hoffman

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Defending the Cincinnati Zoo: Raw footage of the gorilla attack and the reason it had to be killed

I wasn’t going to say anything about this because I love the Cincinnati Zoo and it was really difficult for them to have to shoot one of their prime gorillas when a four-year old boy fell down into their very nice exhibit over Memorial Day weekend.  Unfortunately most of the news outlets did not show how violent the gorilla had been to the little boy cutting out the harshest moments.  At times the gorilla looked to be protective of the child, and he likely was.  But, things can turn nasty in a moment and anybody who knows anything about animals like these types of gorillas understands that once a human being is in a closed exhibit with a much stronger creature that trouble is highly probable.  So here is the original footage to add context to the situation.

The Cincinnati Zoo is one of the best in the world and I commend the team on staff who had to make an incredibly difficult decision that will cost them greatly.  I don’t blame the mother, I don’t blame the kid, and I certainly don’t blame the zoo.  It was just something that happens and the value of such zoo exhibits are worth the danger.  It is really our responsibility as a human species to respect the dangerous tendency of all animals and not to provoke them.  Below is another example of an aggressive gorilla at another exhibit which might better explain why the Cincinnati Zoo felt they needed to act so quickly.  Notice that when the child beats on its chest in the reflection on the window glass, the gorilla took that as a challenge and attacked the glass—cracking it.

Here is the same exhibit where the same two gorillas got into a sudden fight in front of the spectators.  Listen to the stupid comments of the visitors.  The best thing a zoo can do is protect everyone the best they can and use the profit generated to help save more animals around the world.  For the best experience, zoos try very hard to put visitors as close to the natural habitat of the animals.   But danger is inherit, and that slight threat should always be present in the back of our minds while visiting.   Sometimes in Sea World when dealing with killer whales, people get killed.  And sometimes when dealing with dangerous gorillas bad things happen.

However, it’s important to have these exhibits for both the animals and the humans who visit so that our species can learn something from them.  They need our protection and we need to understand their nature.  When bad things happen, we all need to shrug it off and get to the next day.  The best thing you could do dear reader is to support your local zoo for the service they provide.  And if you live in Cincinnati like I do, make sure to throw a little money in their direction every now and then.  They are some of the best in the business and losing a gorilla is a great loss to them—and they need your support, not your criticism.  Zoos aren’t day cares.  They need to be respected as well as enjoyed.  So treat them that way and visit the Cincinnati Zoo as often as you can.

Rich Hoffman

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