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[PurpleGorilla]

His house is only worth $1,000,000 according to the article, so a pretty low achieving boomer.

How much is yours worth then DP?

[DimPrawn]

Must be a Boomer.

Boom! Boom!

His house is only worth $1,000,000 according to the article, so a pretty low achieving boomer.

[expat]

Minnesota dentist’s office becomes makeshift memorial for Cecil the lion; Updated with sign | Twitchy

The guy also shot a white rhino ffs!

Must be a Boomer.

Boom! Boom!

[Gumbo Robot]

I dont think it would.

The authorities sell licenses becasue the demand is there. If they withdraw licenses then hunting would simply drop off the radar and result in more illegal hunts / poaching. The license fees also contribute a lot to the running of game reserves and anti-poaching operations.

Remove the demand and there would be no need for licenses.

Licence FFS!!

[DimPrawn]

Evidently mister tooth doctor is in hiding.

Nice being hunted mr is it?

[MicrosoftBob]

I remember some unfortunate farmer who was reduced to branding "COW" in big letters on the sides of his cows to stop the "hunters" offing them by mistake.

Perhaps they were worried that they were Nazi cows

[MicrosoftBob]

so either way the money would dry up.

If they stopped hunting and issued photography only licenses any idiot in the park with a weapon becomes fair game.

Perhaps they could use something like this

[vetran]

Because something may be legal, it does not make it right. Slavery was legal but most people knew it was wrong. Wife beating is legal in some countries. FGM is legal in most countries and kids are taken out the UK to have it done; is that OK too?

Won't somebody think of the children? Did Hitler have anything to do with it?

[SimonMac]

I don’t condone hunting for sport, but a small part of me feels for this guy as he believes he broke no laws, (assuming that he did not know the tactics used by the guides)

If all the energy directed towards him was instead turned to pressure on the authorities to change / abolish the sale of licenses would that not better protect the animals?

Its catch-22.

Moral outrage doesn't need any laws to be broken, but few people realise that leagal hunting (where they sell licences etc) can do more for the protection in raised funds than donations can alone

[Paddy]

I don’t condone hunting for sport, but a small part of me feels for this guy as he believes he broke no laws, (assuming that he did not know the tactics used by the guides)

If all the energy directed towards him was instead turned to pressure on the authorities to change / abolish the sale of licenses would that not better protect the animals?

Because something may be legal, it does not make it right. Slavery was legal but most people knew it was wrong. Wife beating is legal in some countries. FGM is legal in most countries and kids are taken out the UK to have it done; is that OK too?

[vetran]

I dont think it would.

The authorities sell licenses becasue the demand is there. If they withdraw licenses then hunting would simply drop off the radar and result in more illegal hunts / poaching. The license fees also contribute a lot to the running of game reserves and anti-poaching operations.

Remove the demand and there would be no need for licenses.

so either way the money would dry up.

If they stopped hunting and issued photography only licenses any idiot in the park with a weapon becomes fair game.

[DaveB]

I don’t condone hunting for sport, but a small part of me feels for this guy as he believes he broke no laws, (assuming that he did not know the tactics used by the guides)

If all the energy directed towards him was instead turned to pressure on the authorities to change / abolish the sale of licenses would that not better protect the animals?

I dont think it would.

The authorities sell licenses becasue the demand is there. If they withdraw licenses then hunting would simply drop off the radar and result in more illegal hunts / poaching. The license fees also contribute a lot to the running of game reserves and anti-poaching operations.

Remove the demand and there would be no need for licenses.

[MarillionFan]

I don’t condone hunting for sport, but a small part of me feels for this guy as he believes he broke no laws, (assuming that he did not know the tactics used by the guides)

If all the energy directed towards him was instead turned to pressure on the authorities to change / abolish the sale of licenses would that not better protect the animals?

Naming and shaming has the same effect.

[Halo Jones]

I don’t condone hunting for sport, but a small part of me feels for this guy as he believes he broke no laws, (assuming that he did not know the tactics used by the guides)

If all the energy directed towards him was instead turned to pressure on the authorities to change / abolish the sale of licenses would that not better protect the animals?

[SimonMac]

Perhaps we can create a dodo using Jurassic Park techniques and he can shoot that as well.

Google "steven spielberg hunting"