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Posted by Chris Redmond on 10/06/13 11:48
In article <44747648.9660750@news-server.houston.rr.com>,
Bob <spam@uce.gov> wrote:
>>>Doyle and Rudyard Kipling were active together in establishing a
>>>network of firearms marksmanship ranges all over England.
>>You can, of course, give us some documentation for
>>this most interesting assertion?
>"assertion"? It is not an assertion - it is a fact of reality.
>I read about it in an NRA publication about gun confiscation in
>Britain. It was published about 10 years ago. There so happens to be a
>reprint on the web:
>http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=76
>"Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle both witnessed the lethal fire
>that Boer farmer-riflemen rained on British troops in 1899. They
>returned home to promote civilian marksmanship through the expansion
>of rifle clubs in England."
>Does that help remove any doubt you may have had about my credibility?
No, really. Quite apart from the question of whether the
NRA knows more about British history and the life of Arthur
Conan Doyle than do the biographers of ACD, there is nothing
either in the paragraph you quote here, nor in the complete
article, to suggest that ACD and Kipling worked together on
anything. (They did, however, play golf together once.)
CAR
www.sherlockian.net
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