Acceptable to hit someone with a whip when they're grabbing your horse?

rein
reɪn/
noun
plural noun: reins
  1. 1.
    a long, narrow strap attached at one end to a horse's bit, typically used in pairs to guide or check a horse in riding or driving.
    • British
      a pair of straps used to restrain a young child.
      "some of the children wore leather baby reins"
    • the power to direct and control.
      "a new chairperson will soon take over the reins"
verb
3rd person present: reins
1.
check or guide (a horse) by pulling on its reins.
"he reined in his horse and waited"

reign
reɪn/
verb
3rd person present: reigns
  1. 1.
    hold royal office; rule as monarch.
    "Queen Elizabeth reigns over the UK"
    synonyms: be king/queen, be monarch, be sovereign, sit on the throne, occupy the throne, wear the crown, wield the sceptre, hold sway, rule, govern, be in power More
    "Robert II reigned for nineteen years"
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    on the throne
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      abound, predominate, preponderate, be supreme, hold sway;
      endure, survive, persist
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      usual, common, set, recognized, established, accepted, ordinary, popular, fashionable;
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noun
plural noun: reigns
  1. 1.
    the period of rule of a monarch.
    "the original chapel was built in the reign of Charles I"
    synonyms: rule, sovereignty, monarchy
    "the later years of Henry's reign"
    • the period during which someone or something is predominant or pre-eminent.
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      period as champion
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Origin

Middle English: from Old French reignier ‘to reign’, reigne ‘kingdom’, from Latin regnum, related to rex, reg- ‘king’.
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Thank you and good morning :)
 
As much as I despise these "hunters" and find their sport complete abhorrent. I do not condone the actions of the saboteur, it's reckless and dangerous to attempt to control a horse in such a situation.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
Looking at the OP, is a horse even a pet? Unlike Chris Wilson, I'm unfamiliar with dictionary definitions but that must be stretching it a touch?
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You'll probably find that horse owners will tell you they aren't a pet, they are family. So imagine someone grabbing your child.
 
AHarvey said:
You'll probably find that horse owners will tell you they aren't a pet, they are family. So imagine someone grabbing your child.
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You’d probably struggle to ride a child into a group of people you didn’t like though tbf.
 
MookJong said:
Protest by all means, but grab hold of a horse being ridden by someone?....err no, you should expect to be hit.
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Except it looks likely that she was using the horse as a weapon under which circumstances grabbing the reins may well have been the most sensible option.

I hate the fox hunting ***** that ride about thinking they own everything. Saying that the protesters can do more harm than good.
 
For those making the comparison of grabbing a steering wheel, the rein is also a brake and one of the best ways to control a horse. I have a horse and if it is spooked holding the rein is the best way to control it and also to reassure even if another rider is riding (he is terrified of motorbikes). As mentioned by someone else, the woman riding is probably spooking the horse more than the person holding it, horses don't appreciate whips flapping around. And if she was riding into people, holding the rein the safest thing to do to stop her doing so.

In the horse world there are good people and bad, some care about their animals, others use them as a 'tool'. Some are nice people, others are arrogant self important muppets. People on hunts can also hire horses, they don't always own them.
 
=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
Except it looks likely that she was using the horse as a weapon.
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I have gone back and watched it again and I'm not seeing that. Sure we don't know whet happens before the clip started, but when he lets go she doesn't exactly chase him. He also does not act like he is under any threat other than the whip and could have walked away at any point.
 
woman tries to commit assault with a horse
man holds reins, which is the best way to control a horse
woman repeated assaults man with whip

lock her up

B@
 
B@Th*nG said:
woman tries to commit assault with a horse
man holds reins, which is the best way to control a horse
woman repeated assaults man with whip

lock her up

B@
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It's more like someone driving down their own private driveway, and some trespasser deliberately gets it the way and then tries to take control of the car. You'd hit him until he stops, simple as that.
 
In my far off youth, or even my early mature years, my view was always to do unto others before they get chance to do it to you, so yes I'd have beaten seven bells out of him. I'm an old sod now, so may have taken a more peaceful view, I'd have run full into him & blamed the horse LMFAO
 
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