Jon Hammer, Hopeful Killer of Small Birds.

Jon Hammer, ex-Marine, in the news

I’ve been hearing John & Ken talk for over a week on KFI about this poor man who was being kept in a Mexican jail because he was trying to move a gun across the border. Jon Hammer, a former Marine, had already been held in jail since August, and now his mother, Olivia Hammer, was all over the media, calling for his release.

My ears pricked up when I heard them say that the gun was an antique, not really usable, and could only be used against small birds. Hmm, why say that unless he was planning to kill these vicious small birds?

Ex-Marine Jon Hammar headed south with fellow veteran Ian McDonough on what was supposed to be a few months of surfing and camping in a Winnebago in Costa Rica…

Hammar, however, had packed his great grandfather’s shotgun, a .410 Sears and Roebuck model nearly 100 years old.  Hammar had hoped to hunt small birds with it while living in Costa Rica, Olivia said.

Say what? Is that what Marines do when they’re on leave or discharged, go shoot tiny endangered birds for fun?

The two had recently finished a treatment program for post-traumatic stress disorder, which Hammar suffered after fighting in Fallujah, Afghanistan, according to his mother, Olivia.

Oh, it sounds like killing  is the new avant-garde way to treat PTSD in rehab now. Just keep on killin’. Btw, I’m against gun control, but are these really men you want to be armed at this point in their lives?

Costa Rica is a hotbed of rare birds, bats and mammals. It’s one of the last rainforests. How are people even allowed to go down there to kill anything? There are almost 900 species of birds in Costa Rica, more than in the US and Canada combined, so maybe good ol’ Jon felt he needed the challenge.

Of killing rare  little birds.

According to Lonely Planet:

The number-one threat to most of Costa Rica’s endangered species is habitat destruction, followed closely by hunting and trapping.

I don’t think any innocent American should be in a Mexico jail, like Jon Hammer is. But I have little sympathy for this loser. He was planning to SHOOT SMALL BIRDS in Costa Rica, one of the last rainforests. Is that what Marines do on their time off?  What a disappointment to all Americans.