From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Faulds' problems with village incomers protesting about the noise of shooting is a phenomenon I recognise. In my village, a small group of clayshooters has held a once-monthly shoot on land belonging to one of them right on the edge of the village, for about fifteen years. There was never any problem until a few more houses were built nearby, some of them being bought by relatively affluent incomers, and then the protests started - they agitated for the shooting to be stopped, and tried to persuade villagers to join them in their protests to the authorities. The malcontents seem unresponsive to the obvious suggestion that the clayshooters were there first, arousing no hostility, and that before moving into their twee executive dwellings they might have checked for any nasty shooting activity in the neighbourhood - and stayed away if they weren't prepared to live with it. I disagree strongly with Alex's suggestion that the Faulds are in any way to blame, or should keep their heads down and shut up. It is by exactly such piecemeal (attempted) prohibitions that the shooting sports will be salami-sliced out of existence. Give these dismal suburban jerks an inch and they'll take several miles. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
