Before I forget, why in hell would anyone want to shoot an Elephant anyway? To my thinking killing one should be illegal and I believe this is the case in most places. The same with Polar Bears. There is just no reason!
Have you ever seen what an over population of elephants can do to a land scape? Elephants can literally destroy anything that they please and do so frequently when their populations get out of ballance with the rest of nature.
Do you know how many native villagers an elephant can and will feed and for how long. An entire village can live for a very long time off the carcas of an elephant.
Do you know that many species of elephants and rhinos were on the brink of extinction before they were legally hunted? It is a direct result of hunting them that there are helathy and huntable populations of them in existance today. With out people hunting them legally and paying the thousands of dollars for the oportunity (which will cost $10,000 - $60,000), and the local governments realizing the economic benefits of people legally hunting them as oposed to poaching, the elephants, rhinos, and other animals would have continually been poached for their ivory and horns until they were extinct.
Maybe you should do some research on the subject before you go condeming those that do hunt elephants, polar bears, rhinos, etc...
Better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool that to open it and remove all doubt.