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Backlash over minister's anti-shooting comments
Shooting Times & Country
|May 10, 2023
Fieldsports organisations have condemned the stance taken by Welsh minister Julie James MS during a debate on the benefits of shooting
Comments made by a Welsh minister claiming there is no place for shooting in a ‘civilised society’ have been slapped down by shooting organisations.
The statement was made by the Minister for Climate Change, Julie James MS, during a debate in the Senedd on shooting’s benefits to the Welsh countryside.
In response to a question on the role of shooting and conservation, she said, “I do not think killing anything as a sport or for leisure is anything that any civilised society should support.”
This story is from the May 10, 2023 edition of Shooting Times & Country.
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