You're right its your opinion. However many see it equal to the war on drugs, which was a conservative based effort, which has failed. Or as stated previously prohibition. But all things being equal, there is enough legal ivory to go around. The fact that Africa, and other countries and people, squandered the money sent to them to fight poaching, the fact they the amount destroyed would have hired and equipped an army, and the amount that dies naturally would have been enough to sustain a monitored market place.
It is without a doubt a law cast by liberals. It is without a doubt a law not based on or in reality. A chess set, an ivory handled hair brush, a cane made in the 1800's, a pool cue, to render valueless, is a direct assault on conservatives and even liberals that do not mid having such items. In the end, thanks to your friends on the Pacific Rim, this will just cause the prices to further escalate along with the killing. So at the end of the day the US can say.. oops..we tried.
Yes, the US is the second largest ivory market.. but why is that? Is it a coincidence that the busts on US soil, outside of Victor Gordon, have been with shhhhh... foreigners. So maybe if the US got rid of certain people, then the requirement for ivory would also diminish.
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Yes this is a very liberal / conservative issue. Conservative do want to see the "illegal" ivory stopped just not at the expense of the legal ivory. Now if the libs want to say well to stop the illegal import we need to stop the legal. Maybe its time they adopted the same stance with immigration.
JV
So the main driver of ivory demand is vanity in my opinion. And yes I know that there are a few people who "claim" that ivory is the best ferrule material. I would bet those people every bit of money I have ever held in my hands that this opinion cannot be scientifically proven in regards to performance and furthermore that they themselves likely could not tell the difference in hit and identify with certainty which ferrules were ivory and which were not in blind tests.
IF ivory had never been used in pool cues ever then this wouldn't even be a conversation right now. No one is lamenting the loss of ivory use in tennis racquets and golf clubs that I know of. So to me it's about hypocrisy and the fact that you can TRY to blame it on liberals but what you really seem to want when you do that is a free reign to rape the world's resources and if so then that's not conservative, it's just dishonorable and despicable. There are many conservatives who take conservation and stewardship seriously and who see all sides of this complicated issue.
