Well if you have people from within the sport that you love advocating the banning certain of aspects of that sport ... it will not be as long as you hoped will it ? Sad when the worry is the enemy within!
I hear you and your argument isn’t without support and it isn’t without logic. However there are alternative views to consider if you like or not if you don’t. That’s said, you can’t stop the alternative views.
In my view, much as I’d rather shooting, and many other things to remain as they are, I suspect we are a tad up against it with the antis.
Personally I’m not for saving the planet. I think it’s done just fine for the past 40-50 million years and has seen off various species. If the human race happens to become one of its casualties I don’t think anyone or anything will really care, but some are quite worried about it all and are kicking up quite the fuss.
They're gathering many followers and just like religion a few zealots convince the masses to redeem themselves and all hail hermitic to those that do not follow.
thus this neo religious movement has greater powers than the marginalised gun toting Neanderthals like me, so I think it’s best to get on board at least a little bit and avoid the dunking stool.
this weekend I’ll be shooting about 3kg of lead shoved out of tubes by a plastic wad in the rough direction of some airborne crockery then I’ll drive home in my ozone depleting, acid rain contributing, carcinogenic polluting automobile and I’ll be happy ... providing I at least hit a few.
when the inevitable (in my estimation) happens, I’ll shoot steel and fibre and go home in an electric (very filthy) car.
all wars end the same way. Those that suffer the greatest damages to their ideals sit around a table and try to negotiate from a weak position some tiny scraps of what’s left.
personally, I think BASC (legal experts) is right when they say that shooters should do their best to present shooting in a positive light.
Being proactive about real or supposed pollutants, however safe or damaging, with pseudo science or hard evidence, with great or lesser issues elsewhere, it’s my belief that burring heads in sand is at the very least as much an enemy within.