From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>IG I agree with you totally but don't expect support from
>the majority of subscribers. They will take any chance to
>have a pop at the Bill. Stay with the professionals
In the few short sentences above is encapsulated the
entire 'us and them' arguement that this and other similar
threads have revolved around.
Until "the majority of subscribers" can view The Law as
something that is available to them rather than done to
them then The Law and all those who enact and enforce it
will be regarded with suspicion.
How we get to a state of mutual trust is going to be a
long and painful journey but ultimately it will have to
start with a government trusting the electorate for the
entire term of a parliament not just giving the impression
of doing so for the few short months when it wants us
to vote it in.
Given this administrations record not just on firearms
law but on the so called Freedom of Information bill and
the recently enacted RIP bill I see little hope for the
forseeable future but ultimately someone in government
will have to take that first step.
Until then large sections of "The Bill" will view any
FAC or SGC as a crime waiting to happen and equally large
sections of the shooting population will view the police
as at best an obstacle and at worst a threat to their
peaceful pursuit.
Come the day we are actually trusted with some form of
self defence even if it were just a CS spray (which is
entirely defensive!) we will have taken
considerably more than one step.
Brian T
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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