My personal view is that shooting anything that is endangered, might be endangered, or has been endangered in the past is a bad idea. But if it has to be done for public safety, should be done by a licensed professional working for the state.
For example, in California, mountain lions have made a comeback. So much so that they've occasionally wandered out of the mountains into suburbia. When they do, if animal control and the parks department can't deal with them, it's only right and proper that the police shoot them. But I don't want hunters and other amateur gunbunnies running around in the hills shooting them and anything else they may think looks like a mountain lion.
My view with wolves and polar bears is much the same. And shooting wolves so there are more moose and elk for humans to hunt is simple selfishness. Regular bears? It really depends, but hanging out at the edge of a nature preserve to snipe any who wander across is unsportsmanlike to the level of creepy so I'd say no to that too.
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