Past the actual act and outcome, what makes people nervous is the randomness of this act. This wasn’t expected. It isn’t like this was a known occurrence, that happens every now and then, in this area. Where you say, “well I knew what I was getting into”. This wasn’t some TIA, random robbery at gunpoint, that ends is an epic embellished tale over time. Whether opportunistic locals or religious extremists, they murdered and beheaded people, kidnapped others and burned the place to the ground.
The world isn’t safe. Africa in particular isn’t safe. But there is an illusion that hunting camps, with the revenue they bring in, are considered by locals and the government, as ‘above it all’, to be left alone, even protected. This illusion is only held together, by the lack of occurrences, of events like this.
The “well it’s a big country’ argument has truth to it. If it is actually religious extremist, it’s easier to sell a ‘we got this under control’ government statement. If it is opportunities locals, there is a much larger problem here.
It’s the randomness, that doesn’t allow a level of predictability, to be accessed, in factoring in risk.
Most people, no matter what the deal is, up to and including FREE, are going to take a risk that they could be kidnapped and or brutally murdered for a recreational activity.
How much of a deal is necessary, for one to want to be the first guy to test the theory of, ‘well it’s a one off’? How many ‘no issue’ hunts are required to be back to business as usual?
Some less risk averse people, are going to have some epic hunts, on the cheap, sooner rather than later. First guy in gets the biggest deal.
