AR-News: FOLLIES OF GUN LOVING ROYALS

Sat Apr 17 09:11:22 EDT 2004

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FOLLIES OF GUN LOVING ROYALS 

      Apr 17 2004

PRINCE William has been in trouble for shooting rabbits before.

Animal rights campaigners were furious in 1993 when William, aged just 10, killed half a dozen rabbits with a single-barrel shotgun.

Princess Diana,who was opposed to bloodsports, was furious Charles had allowed the young prince to fire agun at Balmoral.

But three years later, Charles was called 'absolutely stupid' by the British Safety Council in 1996 for fooling around with 12-year-old Prince Harry while he was carrying a double-barrelled shotgun.

Earlier this year, Prince Philip reduced young children to tears by blasting at pheasants yards from a school playground. Horri-fied kids, some as young as eight, watched dead birds rain from the sky as the prince let rip with his shotgun.

The youngsters at St George's Middle School on the edge of Sandringham estate regarded the pheasants almost as pets.

Some were so sickened that they wrote a letter of complaint to the Queen.

Philip once caused a major controversy when he once claimed a gun was no more dangerous than a cricket bat.

Parents of children massacred at Dunblane were disgusted by his comment.

Butin January,the Queen herself incurred the wrath of animal lovers when she was pictured killing a pheasant by bashing it over the head with a stick at Sandringham.

the wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. he is in front of it - axel munthe

"Never doubt that a small group of dedicated citizens can change the world. 
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."      Margaret Mead
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