and below holding a shotgun (blue shirt): http://sharkonline.org/images/Inhofe/repmarkwaynemullin.png

Watch the full video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDbN36abT0k

 

Rep. Mullin, Sen. Inhofe and their political supporters slaughtered more than 1,000 live pigeons, while spectators drank beer under a tent and a mariachi band played.The fundraiser was to support the "Friends of Jim Inhofe and the Fund For A Conservative Future."

An anonymous former supporter of Sen. Inhofe blew the whistle on the fundraiser, and described the event as "an embarrassment to hunters and to Republican(s)...simply animal cruelty."

"Everyone, including hunters and  every gun owner for that matter, should be infuriated by this. It was just a killing contest, just a blood festival  A thousand pigeons casually blasted for entertainment. It’s just an utter waste of life, an awful lot of suffering. Our video shows a killing field, after a couple of hours, just littered with bodies, dead and alive,” said Steve Hindi, president of SHARK.

SHARK, which has been leading the fight to ban live pigeon shoots, sent an undercover investigator to the event to witness and film the pigeon shoot. His identity is being protected. The investigator filed this account: http://sharkonline.org/images/handouts/statement.pdf, excerpted here:

"In the center of the field was an open tent where a few people were surrounded by crates of pigeons. These people would pick up the birds and violently throw them into the air, so that they could then be shot. The bloody killing at Senator Inhofe’s pigeon shoot went on for nearly three hours. It was a horrifying massacre where 1,000 innocent animals were tortured, maimed, wounded and killed, all for a fundraiser, and for fun."

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