My 2p
Game Shooting and Sport Shooting are clearly two different things.

Game Shooting involves killing and eating your quarry - fair comment, I say. The creature lived 'free-range' as the act of hunting, killing and eating is as old as mankind.

Sport Shooting (including such pastimes as fox-hunting) is entirely different. It's blood-sport with no purpose and is a symbol of both greed and lust.

Also, if you think to defend sport shooting, then I would ask that you question why it is acceptable to fox hunt, but not to badger-bait, cock-fight (stop it!) or own a dancing bear. The only answer to this is one of class - Fox-hunting is traditionally an upper-class pastime and the others are "lower-class" entertainments long since banned by the upper-class!

Clearly this is wrong-minded.
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 9:50, Reply)