I can't do that. At least he was a hunter, and advocate for hunting. Merry Olde England and all that...pip pip
Yeah, it's neat he liked to shoot and hunt. The title of the thread says he was a gun rights supporter. That isn't in the article cited. More like a "he really liked being able to travel the world and hunt and shoot things. Especially here at home in jolly old England where the hoi polloi cannot".
Now, if he had used his position to fight for gun rights for the Brits I'd down a bit of gin and tip the hat to him.
Perhaps you should dig a little deeper into the issue before you condemn him so harshly:
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/20/world/prince-philip-angers-britons-on-gun-control.htmlPrince Philip Angers Britons on Gun Control
Dec. 20, 1996
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, spoke out in a broadcast today against pending handgun legislation, using an offhand analogy to cricket, and promptly found himself at the center of the latest round of dismay over the conduct of the British royal family.
In a radio interview on the BBC,
the husband of Queen Elizabeth II sought to raise the argument commonly advanced against laws curbing the private ownership of weapons -- that it is not guns that are to blame but the people who use them. But he did so with a simile that struck people as insensitive to the traumatic event in British life that gave rise to the legislation, the massacre last March of 16 schoolchildren and their teacher in the Scottish town of Dunblane by a man armed with four handguns.
Asked where the Duke stood in a debate that the interviewer noted had become ''a very sensitive issue in the aftermath of Dunblane,'' the Prince said, ''I sympathize desperately with the people who are bereaved at Dunblane.'' But then he added, ''Look, if a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?''
An avid hunter, the Prince, 75, said that sportsmen were being punished for the action of criminals.
''I can't believe that the members of the shooting clubs are any more dangerous than members of a squash club or a golf club or anything else. I mean, they're perfectly reasonable people,'' he said with a convivial laugh.
''There's no evidence that people who use weapons for sport are any more dangerous than people who use golf clubs or tennis rackets or cricket bats.''The text of the interview was made public Wednesday night and produced widespread and immediate outcries of disbelief and condemnation from parents of the slain children and Members of Parliament. From the House of Commons, the Prince was denounced as ''crass'' and ''insensitive'' and told to stop ''blundering'' into politics.
