Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
Pick the right time of year and you can't even shoot a bow and arrow up here due to the fire hazard. That's not an exageration, either, though it sounds like it ought to be. I know somebody who barely got on top of the range fire they started when they missed a target and hit a rock with an arrow. That was all it took.
This discussion does remind me how nuts you all are in the good old U S of A, (meant in the nicest possible way)

I don't know anyone who owns a gun (btw - air rifles don't count), I have never even met anyone who owns a gun , and when i walk down the street i can pretty much guarantee nobody has a gun.

Sometime you do hear about gun crime in the UK and it tends to go like this - some young gang member has shot another young gang member today in the poorest area in the city.

The average person will never and i mean never come into contact with a gun and i for one am quite happy about that i don't find my life of any less value because of it, in fact i barely think about it.