From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciminalising Guns Letter sent To The Daily Telegraph I was astonished by your reports and leading article on the Notting Hill Carnival. It is quite clear that the police are adopting double standards in relation to the possession of weapons. Law-abiding gun owners are constantly in the political and police spotlight in an endeavour to make such ownership increasingly difficult. The recent Home Affairs Select Committee report recommended even tighter restrictions on the ownership of guns, with the undoubted objective of progressively ensuring that no law-abiding member of the public could own them. The soft targets would then be eliminated. We now learn that criminals with illegally held guns can carry them, unchallenged and with full police knowledge. This makes a mockery of the campaign being waged against legally held guns by politicians, police and other anti-gun campaigners. Police will not confront someone on the street suspected of carrying a gun, but are ready to confront and arrest, with the help of their armed colleagues, any recreational shooter pursuing his lawful sport, whose activity has been reported to them by a member of the public. When will the Government face up to the inescapable reality that it is not guns that are dangerous, but the criminals who carry them? N. R. Lyle, Chairman, British Association for Shooting and Conservation, Wrexham, Clywd Reproduced in THE WEEK 9 September 2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And bloody well said too. Kenneth Pantling Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Edmund Burke�1729-97) Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
