Re: Got my fox!

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:58:50 +0100, roseyposey wrote:



Of course it does! We simply have a different attitude to it culturally.
If I held a houseful of armory the liklihood of my children having a
horrendous accident with one would be very high. You may be responsible
with your gun use, but theur are plenty of confused teenagers who would
not show the same restraint and end up causing harm before they could
comprehend the horror of what they had done. We simply legislate in
this country to try and prevent the misuse becoming so widespread that
'everyone' feels compelled to own a gun simply to protect themselves
from other people (criminals). Agreed that it is flawed legislation
in part and has been used over zealously (thinking of the olympic team
who were prohibited from training for target practice - beurocracy gone
mad!!) but on the whole it serves a positive purpose and we do not need
to defend ourselves, as you may do , from wild animal attacks as most
native threats have been long extinct in the wild (bears, wolves etc),
it is only sportsmen and farmers/ country folk who need them here.
Having a different perspective on this doesn't make one ignorant.




First you mention culture and then in the same breath you talk about the
likelihood of injury to your kids. So, are you saying in your culture
it's acceptable for kids to get into your personal things? Do you just
dismiss that as being "normal"? Culture indeed.

Where I grew up, there were guns in every teenagers closet. I was hunting
solo at 13 years old. I stocked the freezer with game but I've never
killed a person.

The one thing you were right about is that bureaucracy-gone-mad comment.
That's the sole function of bureaucracy in the end - to go power mad. BTW,
some of these Mad-Hatters have decided to re-stock rural areas with "long
extinct" animals. Wild wolves have now been spotted from Arizona to
Colorado and as far east as Michigan. Idiots. Wolves are top level
predators that were killed off for a good reason.

















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