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To: marktwain

On the other hand, there was a thread on here yesterday about Brits moving to America so they can continue to hunt.

Assuming they've actually learned their lesson about Gummint tyranny and aren't just going to come here to preserve their fiefdom the way a lot of American shotgunners do, but will help us defeat anti-hunting and anti-gun legislation generally, I'd love to have 'em. People who have fled tyranny are often the best assets one can have in resisting it.


5 posted on 12/28/2004 2:25:04 PM PST by fire_eye (Socialism is the opiate of academia.)
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To: fire_eye; marktwain; Eric in the Ozarks

You seem to under a misapprehension that this is about guns. In England the term hunting means with dogs, it is distinct from shooting (e.g., of grouse, pheasants, partiridge); indeed one of the proposed tactics is to take guns to claim that the hounds are merely to flush the fox onto the guns who can shoot it.

Pretty much all of us with some connexion to the Countryside movement acknowledge that shooting is next on the list for the animal-rights groups, and so shooting groups have stood with hunting groups. But the Hunting Act concerns solely the use of dogs to hunt wild animals.


7 posted on 12/28/2004 4:16:04 PM PST by tjwmason ("For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman!")
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To: fire_eye

Hope you are right, but I have a feeling most will be bitching about paying for health care before you know it.


8 posted on 12/28/2004 4:30:41 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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