From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Just looking at a ruler will
> >tell anyone that the calibre of a handgun can't
> >be .9 mm and yet I have often seen this reported.
>I recently heard a bloke on the "telly" say that he had a 9mm 45. I cant
>remember exactly what the a---hole was waffling on about, but he was
>bragging about how hard he was (wankers always have to tell somebody how
>hard they are!) The thing that got up my nose was that anyone with real
>firearms knowledge would have laughed this bloke out of the studio, but
>to average Joe Public he was talking the truth, and this would convince
>Joe Public that no one should have access to firearms. We are in the
>midst of a propaganda war which we are losing hand over fist. BBC is so
>far up the arse of guvermint it can no longer see any light, let alone
>the light of reason.
>--
>Dave Reay
Steve, & Dave,
Ever consider shaming them?
Write a good, well documented letter, and without managing
to speak down to -- or at -- them, evince the cultured and learned person.
Present your facts, and then offer your services as a consultant
merely as someone who can unequivocally, responsibly, and manifestly
present knowledge of firearms in terms that the common man and woman
can grasp.
The great object is to present the factual without emotion, or
embellishment. When they perceive of you as the knowledge base, they
also see others like you as learned: the learned garner more respect -- one
small step for shooters . . .
ET
--
I tried doing that with the local rag back in 1996 before Dunblane
when they kept going on about the police being armed with SMGs
that could fire 1,000 rounds in a minute, etc., and basically
they told me to get stuffed. Too much pride or too much stupidity,
probably both. Letters to the Press Complaints Commission seem
to get their attention for about five minutes.
Steve.
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