[Lorianne]

If it is against the law in their country none of that matters. Americans should not be travelling to other countries to do something that country has deemed a crime.

Also, if we use your logic .... is it OK for American pedophiles to travel to Thailand (for example)to have sex with minors if the Thais do it illegally too? Just because the people of a country break their own laws doesn’t mean we have a right to travel to that country and break their laws.

There are American citizens who break our drug laws, our robbery laws, our murder laws, our rape laws, our traffic laws ... that doesn’t mean we have to accept people from other countries coming here and breaking our laws.

There is no justification for going to another country and breaking ANY of its laws, whether it’s shooting lions illegally or anything else ... unless we are prepared to say that others can come here and break our laws and it’s no problem.

[Tzfat]

Americans should not be travelling to other countries to do something that country has deemed a crime.

Having lived in Africa for 8 years, I can tell you this: being white and breathing in Zimbabwe is a crime.

[marktwain]

“There is no justification for going to another country and breaking ANY of its laws, whether it’s shooting lions illegally or anything else ... unless we are prepared to say that others can come here and break our laws and it’s no problem.”

Zimbabwe is a dictatorship. Mugabe decides what is law at any particular moment. To navigate that fluid situation, foreigners hire locals to keep them out of Zimbabwe jails.

As for no justification for breaking laws, there is plenty of justification to do so, for a myriad of reasons. The U.S. government does it all the time.

Generally, I support abiding by the rule of law. It is usually just easier. But there are lots of reasons to break laws. The Navy Seals broke lots of laws going after Bin Laden, for example.

[oldvirginian]

Apples and oranges.

I was talking about *legal* and *permitted* hunting.
For whatever reason you chose to inject pedophelia.
Whatever.

To the point.
If the hunter had the legal permits and followed the law, I am fine with it.

Was the lion bated?
If it’s legal there, again, I have no problem.

I did read he was hunting on private property.
If you don’t want hunting on private property next to a game preserve then tell us how far away hunting should be allowed.
Five miles away?
Ten miles?
One hundred?

A friend of mine lives beside a state forest where hunting is not allowed.
The wildlife tears up everything from his garden to his wife’s flowers to the sheds and the lawn because it’s easier pickings than in the forest.
Now he has coyotes slinking around the house.
Not good for his small children.