Excessexpress
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HankBuck, J Ogilvie is 100% correct.J.Ogilvie: Hunting and Imports were Never banned or threatened because of CBL or any other type of Hunting —- that “red herring” gets thrown out to get the fight started. There is a constant goal, by many, to ban/limit/restrict Hunting and all that hidden behind “headlines” —- today’s “headline” is CBL and tomorrow’s it will be Elephant, zebra, or something else. To believe that surrendering CBL will ward off future attacks on Hunting is being gullible…terrorists don’t bargain or negotiate but they often win because they are relentless. Love CBL or Hate it - but surrendering CBL accomplishes Nothing to protect the Future or image of Hunting.
You won’t see the ban reversed, it wasn’t really about CBL lions, rather it was an easy win for anti-hunting campaigners. The point being that the CBL element made it impossible to deflect. Note that the ban also included Leopard, which showed that the CBL was a Trojan horse.
Sometimes we need to clean up our own act before we can defend the rest. Kind of like people who like to take a head and leave the rest in the US. They exist in microscopic number, but make it harder for everyone else.