angels

[crazyone]

that just seems strange that you have to have a license to buy a box of nails. 

[Stephen Richard]

It is both to protect the horses and the farriers.

[crazyone]

I can understand having to have a license to actually do the shoeing. But not to buy the nails. They are used for other things than horses (as we are proof).

[Stephen Richard]

It's like guns.  If you don't have the materials, you can't do the harm.

[Judy K]

Or stay safe from bears, thugs, or stones on the road surface? Ban all good so that a little bad won't happen? How sad.

[Stephen Richard]

Or stay safe from bears,
How many bears do you meet these days?
thugs,
You have time to shoot back?
or stones on the road surface?
You shoot stones?
Ban all good so that a little bad won't happen? How sad.
Yes, how sad that more people are killed in the USA annually by guins than car accidents?

Still this very off topic. And I wont be adding any more.

[Judy K]

I get bears and wolves in my yard, and the stones were referring to the horse shoe nails. I have never had to shoot an animal, and I hope I never have to. But I do not want the option removed. I am not up to wrestling one down these days. Crazies come in all species.

"Yes, how sad that more people are killed in the USA annually by guins than car accidents?"

That has not been my lived experience. I lived half my life in Southern Calif and half in the Alaskan wilderness. Guns and horse shoe nails were used responsibly far, far more often than not. As for deaths, cancer wins hands down.

I'm done too. Merry Christmas Steven.

[Ian]

Can't help but wonder. How many people get shot with horseshoe nails? 
Ian

[Judy K]

  I don't know but I have a very high respect for carpenters pneumatic air nail guns.