The guy who “allegedly” molested young girls?
...wait...wait....wasn’t he indicted just recently????
How can he put a bill on the floor when he’s not there????
While he’s at it, why doesn’t he introduce a law to make poaching illegal. That will surely put an end to it.
restrict big game hunting leads to banning big game hunting.
banning big game hunting leads to restricting all hunting.
restricting all hunting leads to banning all hunting
banning all hunting leads to restricting gun ownership which leads to banning gun ownership.
my prediction several days ago.
- don’t let a crisis go to waste
Aren’t black children are risk due to PP Big $ hunting?
I wonder how tight Menendez is with PETA activists.
If he wants to help the poor poor animals, why not restrict Robert Mugabe instead?
http://time.com/3976344/cecil-lion-zimbabwe-walter-palmer/#3976344/cecil-lion-zimbabwe-walter-palmer
Zimbabwe was once celebrated as the “breadbasket of Africa,” whose fertile earth supplied the world with abundant tobacco, corn and wheat. Today, 76% of its rural population lives in abject poverty, dependent on foreign food aid and desperate measures — like the poaching of the wildlife that inhabits its otherwise barren lands, or rendering assistance to those who want to hunt or poach.
In 2000, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe enacted a disastrous land-reform policy. Farms were divided up and nationalized and many plots were handed out to generals and ministers. Thousands of white landowners were violently evicted from their farms, which were then parceled into smallholdings and given to black Zimbabweans. The destruction of property rights led to a disintegrating economy and widespread poverty. Poaching — to feed the insatiable demand for rhino horn and ivory in China and other parts of Asia — became rife and much of the wildlife in Zimbabwe was simply wiped out.
Until 2000 Zimbabwe had a successful wildlife-management program, with many big-game animals flourishing. But by 2003, a staggering 80% of the animals that had lived on Zimbabwean safari camps (which employed firm quotas to regulate animal population sizes) had died. By 2007, there were only 14 private game farms in the country, compared with 620 prior to the land seizures of 2000, according to a National Geographic report. With the protection of private game reserves nearly nonexistent, once abundant wildlife began dying off, hunted by desperate farmers with no other options for sustenance.
Despite the passing of harsher laws for poachers in 2011 illegal hunting in Zimbabwe is still big business. Poaching syndicates earn hundreds of thousands of dollars exporting ivory and animal skins. Many conservationists believe allowing the community to reap the benefits of wildlife management — by, ironically, running the sorts of safaris on which Palmer shot his lion — will help curb illegal poaching. But it is impossible to have that debate while the world brays for the ruin of a lone Minnesotan dentist, and fails to criticize a regime whose policies were responsible for the almost complete extinction of Zimbabwean wildlife in the first place.
Paying $50K to $300K to hunt big game controls the animal populations - to keep them from all starving. It funds anti-poacher security, fuels local economies and shows the locals that protecting the animals is a good thing.
Guess what happens without it??
Big game Hunts are to Africa what drugs and guns are to mexico.
Says volumes that Democrats are outraged that a lion was shot but are indifferent to the systematic slaughter of human life and profiting from the remains.
Why not a restriction on small life game killing.
The 17th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America will hopefully be as dead as the Zimbabwe lion.
That presumes a God, of course.
Don’t the commie lib ‘RATS have anything better than this to do? I’m just glad Cecil was “gay” and shacked up with another male lion. The whole world would be hysterical. People really need to put down their “smart” phones and get a friggin’ JOB!!!
Good thing there are no problems in America to occupy the Senate’s time.
Claims he is Pro-Choice for lions.
Those who believe a lion is a human being with a soul and don't want them killed can just wish they stayed alive. They can protest every year on the anniversary of Cecil's death.
Those who believe they're soulless lumps of tissue can just blow their brains out.
I believe he's got it!
My suggestion is to import a few dozen threatened lions and turn them loose in New York, Baltimore and other urban areas, with protections that the animals cannot be harmed or molested in any way. In 20 years or so, you will have more lions than you can count.
Dead cat bounce and nothing realllllly important to do....
“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had suggested the African lion be listed as “threatened” in October, but has yet to confirm the listing.”
Probably will list it because no one has seen a lion in the wild of NJ in eons, which would surely make it at a minimum endangered or threatened.
Another law for the land of the used-to-be-free.