Our shotgun worries (From York Press)

I just think if he enjoys shooting so much now he knows what it feels like to be shot! Have no sympathy what so ever. And I don't think people should be able to have guns for fun, they're not toys.

I can just imagine what a day in the life of MrsHoney must be like...

Awoken every day by the plain bleep of her simple alarm clock: waking to some light radio might be too entertaining, after all, it's an alarm clock, not an entertainment device. Then it's off for a cold shower with carbolic soap, lest her sense be overloaded by too much luxury. For breakfast, a single cup of gruel and a a multivitamin - you're meant to eat it, not like it! She's then taken from her dormitory, and tossed into the back of a windowless panel van with the rest of the sheeple, ready to be taken for an 18 hour slog down the workhouse. If she's very good, she might get to walk around the concreted walled yard for half an hour while she sups her tepid water at lunch time, for tea would just overexcite her. After work, it's back into the van, back to her dormitory, where she gets another cup of gruel and a sleeping tablet. For the half hour it takes to kick in, she blankly contemplates the grey concrete wall of the dining hall, til her keepers take her back to her cell, and lock her in for the night to ensure she's fresh for the next day.

It must be very freeing, living the life of a wage slave, not enjoying any of the joys life can give. After all, each one has an associated risk, so obviously, they all need to be banned! Personally though, I like a bit more excitement in my life - I guess I'm just a rebel.

MrsHoney wrote:
I just think if he enjoys shooting so much now he knows what it feels like to be shot! Have no sympathy what so ever. And I don't think people should be able to have guns for fun, they're not toys.

What if the person shot wasn't a shooter but a beater? As in not someone using a gun for fun but an employee who doesn't shoot? Not saying that's what happened but it is the most likely scenario.
Try to think a little before you blah your insensitive blah at the world.

MrsHoney wrote:
I just think if he enjoys shooting so much now he knows what it feels like to be shot! Have no sympathy what so ever. And I don't think people should be able to have guns for fun, they're not toys.

Begs the question if assassins enjoy their work

What an idiotic response lis0r. Just because I don't think that playing with guns is a good idea (which after all are designed to kill things) doesn't mean I don't enjoy life. Personally I think anyone that enjoys killing things isn't right in the head. And Buzz, it said in the article that he'd been out shooting pheasants, so I did get my facts straight and think about it before I posted my response. However, even if it was a beater I'd think the same thing as their job is to send up the birds for people to shoot, just as guilty. I know people who go beating and would think serves them right to be honest. Killing for fun is plain wrong, and beating is aiding and abetting.

Actually MrsH, if you go back and read the article it doesn't say he was shooting, it just says shooting party.
Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see not what was there.

Pheasant tastes brilliant.
I refuse to buy meat from a supermarket, the poor animals have been raised and slaughtered in terrible factory conditions and sourced from who knows where.
I wouldn't hesitate to eat pheasant, raised locally in open countryside free to roam and treated well by the gamekeepers.
I hate to break it to you MrsH, but once they've been shot, you can eat them...

There are lots of gun sports, and the majority don't involve killing anything, yet you're entirely gung-ho about banning the lot, MrsHoney: yet another crazy participant in the War On Fun.

As Buzz Light-year points out, the life of game is far better than those of the majority of raised meat, and their end far less bloody than those of the animals killed as collateral damage during the care and harvest of vegetables. I fail to see how people hunting game are any morally different to the operators of abattoirs. Unless you're a vegan who grows all of her own food, then you're a hypocrite, and not in a position to criticize.