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Yesterday I posted the following on facebook....

One of my main hobbies is the sport of target shooting. Every week up and down the country, thousands of my fellow sportsmen and sportswomen compete in competitions. We do not need riot police to keep us in order.
Recently, I spent a nice weekend at Bisley for The Phoenix Meeting - a few days of shooting attracting hundreds of people.

And each night, alcohol was consumed. None of us felt the need to smash up the bars we were drinking in.

In July, the same venue hosts The Imperial Meeting. Again, hundreds and probably thousands will visit over the course of this series of competitions. Again, each evening the competitors will have a few drinks in the bars - and no riots will break out. In fact there will not even be a Police presence required !

Compare that to the football "fans" drinking in Marseilles over the past few days.

How many people have been battered and stabbed in football hooliganism over the years ? How many millions of pounds worth of damage has been caused ? Yet - in the UK, shooters are looked upon with distrust and treated as potential criminals !

Share this if you are proud to be part of a sport with participants who are without a doubt, the group in the UK with the the best record of decent behaviour.


Please go to facebook - user "Brian Mc" and share. Would be nice to see this go viral and show the public just how peaceful our sport is !

Well said Breacher.

BTW Like your suggested Cord pull from Facebook.... I was just gearing up for some 7.62 today, hope the Wife doesn't object.

breacher wrote:Yesterday I posted the following on facebook....

One of my main hobbies is the sport of target shooting. Every week up and down the country, thousands of my fellow sportsmen and sportswomen compete in competitions. We do not need riot police to keep us in order.
Recently, I spent a nice weekend at Bisley for The Phoenix Meeting - a few days of shooting attracting hundreds of people.

And each night, alcohol was consumed. None of us felt the need to smash up the bars we were drinking in.

In July, the same venue hosts The Imperial Meeting. Again, hundreds and probably thousands will visit over the course of this series of competitions. Again, each evening the competitors will have a few drinks in the bars - and no riots will break out. In fact there will not even be a Police presence required !

Compare that to the football "fans" drinking in Marseilles over the past few days.

How many people have been battered and stabbed in football hooliganism over the years ? How many millions of pounds worth of damage has been caused ? Yet - in the UK, shooters are looked upon with distrust and treated as potential criminals !

Share this if you are proud to be part of a sport with participants who are without a doubt, the group in the UK with the the best record of decent behaviour.


Please go to facebook - user "Brian Mc" and share. Would be nice to see this go viral and show the public just how peaceful our sport is !

Off topic, but isn't it kind of disturbing that the EURO 16 has had two nights of riots after matches along with the rest of France's Civil Unrest? At we don't get riots after a comp and everyone even the losers go away generally as new friends or at least having learned something new.

One important point you missed is the Imperial is an international event so teams and individuals from many different countries will be visiting and competing over several days, and socialising in the evenings without problems.

The tribalism in shooting isn't manifest in the competitions but it does rear its ugly head across the disciplines with the "my gun is safer than your gun" "it doesn't effect my discipline so I'm not bothered", "what would anyone need one of those guns for" etc attitudes as personified by our "national" organisations.

It doesn't spill into the streets, use raised fists, or effect the population requiring police intervention but sure as hell it is damaging to legal gun ownership. Done by the shooting "community" to itself at no cost to the public purse. What a considerate bunch of self harmers we are.

It is the ink from the tattoos which affects the brainwaves...

Mike95

Mike95 wrote:It is the ink from the tattoos which affects the brainwaves...

Mike95

Someone will be along shortly on that "point".....

This will not affect our image in the mind of the average sheeple in any way, that's just wishful thinking. We have allowed the sport and gun owners to be demonised beyond repair by the gun hating liberal and corrupt media agenda and that'll never change back

Footie violence is tolerated because it keeps the masses amused and generates pots of cash into the bargain. In reality footie should be banned because there have been way more deaths and injuries, maimings,vandalism,domestic violence etc attributable to footie than legally held firearms and their owners.

What's deemed good for us is good for them!

Not now after the Orlando shootings

breacher wrote:Yesterday I posted the following on facebook....

One of my main hobbies is the sport of target shooting. Every week up and down the country, thousands of my fellow sportsmen and sportswomen compete in competitions. We do not need riot police to keep us in order.
Recently, I spent a nice weekend at Bisley for The Phoenix Meeting - a few days of shooting attracting hundreds of people.

And each night, alcohol was consumed. None of us felt the need to smash up the bars we were drinking in.

In July, the same venue hosts The Imperial Meeting. Again, hundreds and probably thousands will visit over the course of this series of competitions. Again, each evening the competitors will have a few drinks in the bars - and no riots will break out. In fact there will not even be a Police presence required !

Compare that to the football "fans" drinking in Marseilles over the past few days.

How many people have been battered and stabbed in football hooliganism over the years ? How many millions of pounds worth of damage has been caused ? Yet - in the UK, shooters are looked upon with distrust and treated as potential criminals !

Share this if you are proud to be part of a sport with participants who are without a doubt, the group in the UK with the the best record of decent behaviour.


Please go to facebook - user "Brian Mc" and share. Would be nice to see this go viral and show the public just how peaceful our sport is !

I didn't share it because of the highlighted sentence.