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Barry C - 25/5/2005 12:20 PM However I would be ok if they made a law calling for licencing of archery equipment, after all it will not effect users who shoot for sport.
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Whilst I don't have a problem with licensing, how can you say it will not affect any of us??If the licensing laws were similar to gun laws, then we'd all need locked steel cabinets, a visit from the local police (to check out your new cabinet), police checks (to make sure that your not a 'Rambo' type, even though you might have been shooting for 30 years), etc, etc. All of these things take time and money.And all because of a few mindless individuals, who would commit the crime anyway, as was said earlier and the fact that the 'general public' can't distinguish between a crossbow and a bow. In my humble opinion(please forgive me, anybody who shoots crossbow) these nutter types are more likely to want a crossbow than a longbow or recurve, though they may go for a compound. Reason being that they think they look more macho. Thats not to say thats the reason anyone shoots crossbow or compound, but films, etc tend to glorify these disciplines as killing machines - see 'Rambo', 'LOTR', 'Blade', etc, etc, etcMaybe the only way to prevent incidents would be to introduce licensing, but that wouldn't stop the psycho's, you only have to look at the gun craze which seems to be sweeping the country at the moment