From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
You can't have a plebiscite on every issue.
Democracy isn't about that. We elect a government,
in the belief that it will do our will, more or less, during it's
term. If it doesn't to your satisfaction, you vote it out, first
opportunity. Referendums are about what the public sees as
big issues. What almost all shooters I speak to seem to fail to
see is, that to 'Joe Public' this wasn't a big issue. I think 'EJ',
you owe it to yourself to try to understand that! (To say the
least)They didn't mind the handgun ban. By a huge majority!
[...]
Well, Paul, what you offer, and what I contest will have
to rest as academic, seeing as how the matter was settled for
you by someone else - rather conveniently, I might add.
You'll never really get to know how most of the public
feels, now will you? The only pole that really counts it the one
on election day, and that was pretty much obviated by people
who pretend to know everything about everything. And, you
can set about to prove just that, by going to each elected MP's
office and asking questions on the subject of firearms, questions
that they ought to be able to answer correctly, and affirmatively
and most importantly, factually. If they can't and they voted
against your possession of certain arms, then you'll know what
their honesty quotient is. Care to guess how well the majority
will fair?
If the people are given a fair amount of information,
and a decent time to digest that information, and listen to both
sides of an issue, chances are likely that they will vote for right
thing, and not be hoodwinked by the likes of the kind of liars
that perpetrated the 'Snowdrop' campaign, and convinced the
your MPs to grovel, wince, and whimper.
[...]
I think I've probably had to defend my own life on a
hundred more occasions than you will ever be called upon to do,
so don't try to lecture me. You don't have an inkling, you are
merely repeating clich�s.
And happy mediums? Doris Stokes maybe?
[...]
Well, that matter will have to rest as academic as well,
since neither of us is privy to either's private lives. I certainly
would not seek to diminish your accomplishments in any way,
by such an assertion. And, as to that neat matter of clich�s, well,
perhaps. But then, this matter we converse over has been discussed
for so long, by so many people, in so many ways, that no matter
what thought we put to the medium, or to the tongue, each was long
ago expressed in perhaps more elegant ways than we here shall
possibly know. That said, how could we possibly not repeat the
same expressions endlessly? There are only so many ways to
express a thought, before the process repeats itself.
Doris Stokes? Care to enlighten me?
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