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> it doesn't matter what clothes you wear as long as you're a good person
> inside.
>
> Keep the faith.
>
> Martyn Archer
Yes I'm with you on that one. I realise that camo gear,
holsters all over your body and an Alvis Stalwart parked
in the drive isn't to everyones taste and to many appears
a bit strange, but the bottom line is, who really gives a
toss? The attitude of "well it's not really necessary so
*they* shouldn't be allowed to do it" dosen't really hold
water because no sport is really necessary in the true
sense of the word, shooting no less so. This is only
lowering ourselves to the level of the bannit brigade.
In the 14ish years I've been shooting, the attitude of
"don't rock the boat" has been the prevailing one from
most of the shooting orgs and clubs. Given the benefit of
hindsight, it is plainly obvious that it has done us
absolutley no good what-so-ever, in any shape or form. If
we had simply taken the bloody minded approach in
everything, we may not be any better off than we are now
but we certainly wouldn't be any worse off. We have been
told not to carry guns in holsters, not to shoot at certain
targets, not to use high cap mags, not to wear camo
gear, to keep quiet during "sensitive" times when we
could be getting our point accross, etc, etc,etc, this is all
stuff from shooting orgs and clubs not Parliament. I'm
sure others can add to this list. All of this has done
nothing at all to help the shooting sports and unless we
take a more beligerant attitude we won't be shooting
anything by the end of the first decade of this century.
I've met all types of people through shooting. I know
some bloody good blokes who before the pistol ban used
to go to the club tooled up like the preverbial Mexican
bandit (Davey, do you still read this? :-)), I've known
people who have worn camo gear, cowboy boots, hell I've
even got a full length Austrailian stockmans coat I use at
the range and I look a right tit in it! The point is,
regardless of the eccentricity of the individual, I've never
known anyone in the shooting world who I would actually
regard as dangerous or likely to bring the sport into
disrepute.
Jonathan Laws
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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