We here and others around the country were appalled, and rightly so, by the Banardo’s web based promotional video showing the hunting of children by people with firearms. There was a lot of positive action taken by firearms owners who contacted their M.P’s, shooting organisations and others who may be able to bring pressure to bare to either have the video removed or a disclaimer posted. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation in their quarterly magazine ran a two page article highlighting the problem video.

As of the time of writing this, no article has been published detailing the outcome of the campaign to resolve the concerns of firearms owners. Well, if you follow the link (click here) you will see that the video has been removed and there is also a disclaimer that the video was not representative of legitimate hunters, sportsmen and women and firearms owners. The disclaimer was all that was asked for the removal of the video was a bonus.

Whilst I do not use generalisations, I was unable to find anyone that was against Banardo’s or the work that they do, they did however all agree that the misrepresentation and marginalisation of an individual or group of individuals for the promotion of a cause, no matter how worthy, was wrong.