Steve - I was agreeing with you up until "Diversifying..."
then you go off on an imaginative flight of daftness.

I'm not at all embarrassed...

but I had to look up "hubris".. just to check I remembered what it means..
it's not a word encountered too frequently round our way..

Nope.. not that either...

I am entirely transparent, I say what I mean.
I'm responding apropriately to unjustified smears on my integrity and motives.
All on the basis of your hyped up take on a trivial news item..
Far worse things happen every day...

I respond by talking about political pragmatics,
you seem more concerned with lecturing me on your opinions
and trying to analyse me..

All a bit too self indulgent of you, and pointless really...

Yes there is a negative ideological dimension to those pellet targets.
BUT it's not likely they would have much effect in the outside world beyond the pellet gun club walls.
However, keeping it in perspective,
last general election there was a rented house full of skinheads living across the road.
They had a massive B'n'P poster covering their bay window
as a intimidating provocation for the young black mum and her kids
who lived directly opposite.
I emailed the police, who did eff all...

I live near one of the most deprived estates in the West country,
You seem to enjoy life in idyllic rural surroundings...

One of us may be more in touch with modern reality than the other...???