[Second Amendment First]

The value of ivory increases when the supply is diminished. Result: more poaching leading to extinction.

[Cowboy Bob]

Didn’t the Taliban destroy historic relics? How is the US government any different?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

So, what am I to do with the beautiful, carved ivory tusk my folks brought back from overseas? It was purchased in 1961. Am I a criminal now for owning that? Should I just commit suicide? Or, should I make sure when I commit suicide I take a lot of Obama’s sons with me? Or should I do it in a mosque full of Muslims? I want to make sure my death for owning ivory serves a real purpose. Suggestions?

[Mr. K]

Did the paper say the tides should stop too?

Even King Canute only did that to prove he was not powerful enough to stop them.

[Squantos]

Agree .... Critters get old, herds must be culled etc ... sell the ivory and donate part of proceeds to conservation efforts.

My opinion..

[IC Ken]

Stupid Gubment has no idea of the concept of “Supply and Demand.” Waiting for the next Headline...”Ivory prices skyrockets in illegal markets.

[smokingfrog]

That was a really dumb idea.

But I’m sure it gave them a warm feeling of superiority to destroy all that ivory.

[dfwgator]

In fact, Ivory would guarantee that elephants wouldn't go extinct. A managed cultivation of Ivory would encourage breeding and protection of the elephants as they would be private property.

Is it any different than what we do to animals for meat? There's a good reason that cows aren't extinct.

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[Bon of Babble]

It's getting a little out of hand:

Teens' Bagpipes Seized At U.S. Border Crossing For Ivory Pieces

U.S. prohibits importing ivory taken after 1976. Even though the boys had certificates showing their ivory is older — Campbell's pipes date to 1936 — U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized the pipes in Highgate Springs, Vermont. Well, not all of them: The boys took every other part possible and left the ivory with Border Patrol so nobody else could make a full set out of the parts.

Those kids were lucky their bagpipes weren't smashed to smithereens - with no compensation, of course.

And yes, create a shortage where there is a market, the price soars and the poachers become more brazen.

[BitWielder1]

It makes no sense destroying valuable artifacts made before the ban was in effect.
The war on Ivory will work as well as the war on drugs.

[Free Vulcan]

I was raised in the Midwest, and we were brought up that if you kill it, you better eat it. You can save something like the head for a trophy, but you didn’t hunt for trophies.

It’s like the old joke they tell about raising hogs on the farm in the old days - ‘we used everything but the squeal’. That’s they way it should be. Slaughtering animals should be for the purposes of keeping people fed and clothed (at least back in the days when there were no synthetics).

Killing animals for things like ivory, for vanity and decoration and ornaments, while leaving the animal to rot, is an unacceptable travesty.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How is it that Lefties can always come up with the most illogical solution to any problem?

They seem to take pride in it.