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absolutely! The general public never hears our voice. I have put this same thread on the other well known forum as ideally we would need the while of the airgunning community to get involved. You would need admin to set up a thread and bring it to the attention of members along with the idea behind the content. Google continually scrapes the internet for content including forums - the trick is to make the content big enough and busy enough to attract the attention of the search engines.
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Good plan, would we need a web page you know dodgy airguns. Come?
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You dont need any separate web page - you just need a thread on here that is massive and added to regularly.
Its the title and content of the thread that are crucial. The title MUST include the words that we want the google hits for ie airgun and dangerous ( or words along those lines)and the content MUSTbe all positive!
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While I applaud the idea, if it's an anti (or journalist) looking for horror stories they'll simply dismiss any & every pro-airgun story, because that's what they do.
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My opinion too. They would go with the Rspca or Cats protection views first or Mumsnet.Originally Posted by angrybear
While I applaud the idea, if it's an anti (or journalist) looking for horror stories they'll simply dismiss any & every pro-airgun story, because that's what they do
First hit on Google when searching dangerous airgun
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.e...-canisters/amp
How many views would your post need to beat that to the top of the list?
The recent Squirrel shooting story in the Daily mail online that included Si Pittaway not long back was a friend of my wife's son . Not met him but my wife said he was the type that wanted to shock an awe people and his views were the only views he would entertain .
He is moving abroad or has moved now and hopefully he wont be writing for the Daily Mail online any more .
Last edited by bighit; 13-03-2018 at 01:10 PM.
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I know that journalists are toolbags and its not them I am worried about. i just think that it would be handy if a member of the general public or anyone else for that matter found good news when they searched using those terms rather than bad.While I applaud the idea, if it's an anti (or journalist) looking for horror stories they'll simply dismiss any & every pro-airgun story, because that's what they do
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sounds good neil but how many people read the newspapers and see the negative against seeing the positives ?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/...er-who-9028209
Mike Fairclough is the head teacher of the controversial West Rise School in which children are taught to shoot guns, use knives and all manner of outdoor survival skills.
The primary school head, who encourages kids to do clay pigeon shooting, was lambasted by angry Twitter users who claimed it was a 'disgrace' that he was teaching youngsters to skin rabbits and other forest animals.
Even host Susanna Reid said she was a little scared as the head teacher showed off his personal rifle that he uses to teach the kids. Although the weapon was not loaded, Susanna still said she felt afraid and uneasy.
Nevertheless, Twitter turned on Mike with one person tweeting: "Fuming at that head teacher! Teaching kids to kill animals and use knives and guns. Idiot should lose his job."
Another said: "I wouldn't want my kids learning how to kill animals and playing with knives. I don't care how many adults there are watching them. It's mad."
watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PHUhm9fwRc look at her and listen to her comments on the airgun.
Mike is teaching Kids the safe handling of gun and knives and eating from the land and the public are baying for his blood
That's what your up against .
Im not saying we should not try but I am saying it's going to take a lot of convincing to change what is already there and it may be too late in relation to licensing .
This forum has been on the press's radar and a story published in the past.
Last edited by bighit; 13-03-2018 at 03:03 PM.
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Never mind the guns and knives part, I wouldn't want my children's headmaster to be a 70's pornstar!!sounds good neil but how many people read the newspapers and see the negative against seeing the positives ?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/...er-who-9028209
Mike Fairclough is the head teacher of the controversial West Rise School in which children are taught to shoot guns, use knives and all manner of outdoor survival skills.
The primary school head, who encourages kids to do clay pigeon shooting, was lambasted by angry Twitter users who claimed it was a 'disgrace' that he was teaching youngsters to skin rabbits and other forest animals.
Even host Susanna Reid said she was a little scared as the head teacher showed off his personal rifle that he uses to teach the kids. Although the weapon was not loaded, Susanna still said she felt afraid and uneasy.
Nevertheless, Twitter turned on Mike with one person tweeting: "Fuming at that head teacher! Teaching kids to kill animals and use knives and guns. Idiot should lose his job."
Another said: "I wouldn't want my kids learning how to kill animals and playing with knives. I don't care how many adults there are watching them. It's mad."
watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PHUhm9fwRc look at her and listen to her comments on the airgun.
Mike is teaching Kids the safe handling of gun and knives and eating from the land and the public are baying for his blood
That's what your up against .
Im not saying we should not try but I am saying it's going to take a lot of convincing to change what is already there and it may be too late in relation to licensing .
This forum has been on the press's radar and a story published in the past.
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