Sorry i cannot see why someone needs to own a gun in the uk??
i think that has already been discussed. shooting is a sport that many people take part in safely and legally. and guns are also necessary to control pests.
What is the point of owning your own guns though?
why not go to a designated shooting place and hire them for use within the grounds of said place?
it would not work having a designated place and hiring them etc. i, for example shoot in my garden and the field next door, to keep the rabbit and pigeon numbers down, as the rabbits eat all of our plants and dig holes in the field next door, endangering the racehorses in the field. and the pigeons fly into our veg patch, and eat the plants. so if we were only allowed to shoot on certain places and had to hire the gun out, then it would not be possible to keep the numbers down.
However, it isn't just the shooting bit. many people like to own their gun, and wouldn't want to hire one out. would you want to hire a car out every time you want to use it, just because people die in car accidents?
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A car isn't designed to crash as it's sole purpose.
My first post suggested owning your own guns but having to store them in a 'proper' place ie. police station/official gun storage hold and to be signed out with information on use, time period before return etc etc
Suppose that would make no difference though other than making more awkwardness thinking about it properly.
Could always buy/make something to scare the birds away and get your self a few cats for the rabbits.
Would your opinion on owning guns change perhaps if somebody close to you died through a similar incident?
Likewise a firearm isnt designed to break the law.
yeah, having them stored at police stations would not have prevented what happened in Cumbria, as you would simply be allowed to sign them out and misuse them.
scaring bird away dosent work, and cats would not do an efficent enough job to keep rabbits away. Also what about squirrels? They need their numbers controlled too.
Like I said earlier, land owners are under LEGAL OBLIGATION to control pest species, did you know its also illegal to release pest species once you catch them in a trap? They have to be killed.
Rabbits, squirrels, foxes and various birds do very serious damamge in the countryside and to farmers livestock. To the casual observer or townie, you might see one 'cute' rabbit causing no harm in the middle of a field, yet a farmer sees hundreds of pounds of lost revenue, and possibly injured livestock.
Hopefully no one I (or you) know would ever meet such an unfortunate end, however, my perception of firearms and my stance on the law would not change, atleast I hope so anyway, rational thinking would go out of the window in such traumatic times as mourning takes over.
Would you still get in a car perhaps if someone close to you died in a car accident?
but it was ment in a way of just saying....everyone has an oppinion and that is mine,
