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I entirely agree with Alex's suggestion that undiluted
hostility toward anti-noise (or anti-shooting) urban
incomers is unproductive, and that we should attempt
to educate them. Some of the objectors to clayshooting
noise have indeed been to my house for drinks, and met
some of my shooting chums, so a certain amount of
re-education goes on. But the point has to be made
that shooters have compromised too much over the years,
to a suicidal degree, both as individuals and more
especially through their organising bodies, which until
very recently reacted with gutless compliance every time
Government said Boo! to them. Some still do... I don't
apologise to anybody for my love of shooting and my
interest in firearms, and I shall continue to defend
shooting as robustly as I think fit. This includes
setting straight the sort of bossy, arrogant,
manipulative know-alls who seem to be attracted to country
iving for the wrong reasons - the kind of people who read
"Country Living" in fact. The anti-cock-crow types do
exist: I've attended a dinner party which included a couple
recently arrived from London, who were distressed at the
presence of cow dung in the lane outside their house! They
seemed bewildered by my explanation that cows necessarily
produced dung, that the cows were from the farm in the
village, and that there'd probably been a farm thereabouts
for the past thousand years...
Force majeure - the preponderance of urbanites over
countryfolk - is clearly very important to us practically,
but let's not fall into the typically Blairite folly of
confusing majority wishes with what is right: too often
the word "democracy" is invoked when what the speaker
wants appears to be supported by a simple majority. Freedom
is meaningless unless minorities are free too - especially
when what they do is established by precedent and long
practice.
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