I'm going to start this post with a question? Would you allow your self or a child to sit in an enclosure with a silverback gorilla?
Assuming the majority are some what aware with a bit of common sense the answer to that question would always be a no.
How about another question? Have you been able to watch your own children or some one's elses 24/7 so they never get in a dangerous situation or bump their head?
Assuming the majority of people who have some experience with kids, the answer again would be a no.
Although I completely agree, going outside the house I would watch kids like an eagle but there is that one second you can switch off or look away. We know children have a habit of running off.
Gorilla's are animals with more strength than a man
If you have ever watched a documentary about these lovely animals, they are to be respected and heavy caution is to be advised. That's why zoo's do not allow anyone to walk in to a caged area with a gorilla. The issue here that I wanted to raise is not what the Parents were doing (frankly I would be an eagle) but instead how people questioned shooting the gorilla.
Gorilla's have a habit of turning on their own, over very miniscule things, they also have a habit of making up relatively easy. Sometimes they also can kill one another or smaller/baby apes. Even professionals who spend years tracking and spending time with these lovely animals do so with extreme caution. In doing so they also roll the dice in the hope they will not be attacked.
The Zoo had 3 seconds to make a choice
This is where I really felt a niggle, you have 3 seconds to make a choice, you have a gun, a child is with a real gorilla. What do you do? In this instance the zoo could have easily waited - what would have happened? A death and a beating of a child.
The world would have been in fury if a death of that child occurred, not only to the Parents but to the zoo. Demanding why they took their time to react, why they decided to not hurt a gorilla silverback over a toddler too young to understand the dangers.
How anyone could sit there and say "they should have waited" is beyond me. I absolutely adore animals, I'm no fan of zoo's because wild animals shouldn't be caged but I'm glad children actually get to see these lovely creatures. To claim the zoo though should have waited and that the child was "safe" is utterly ridiculous. For anyone who says that line, why don't you let your child sit with a gorilla. I don't doubt for one second that this gorilla died as a result of the parents mistakes (accident or not) but to claim that the zoo didn't have to shoot. The only solution was a tranquilizer but they are not always available and may cause the gorilla to react angrily in those few seconds.
As a brit, living in Britain we do have a hefty load of red tape. We have major issues in this country and huge delays are caused by health and safety plus the red tape saga.
A zoo in this country has to think about the big what if, they have to make sure there is no chance of animals escaping and for dangerous one they are in very large enclosures. The point I am trying to make about this is not every country follows this path. Zoos in other countries don't necessarily take health and safety serious on a load of things. They don't have red tape. When you visit other nations for a holiday you only see a glimpse of it.
What is interesting, is this has caused a bigger uproar then a homicidal maniac going on a killing spree. The very same people who want harsh punishments on the parents and the zoo, are the same ones that support guns in homes. The same ones that use technicalities to get off prison sentences. The world really is full of #hypocrisy.
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