From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also from the 10 Downing Street web site: Quote: LARRY KING LIVE INTERVIEW [04 May 1999] INTERVIEWER: I would be remiss if I didn't ask you your thoughts on what happened in Colorado, and could that happen in your country? PRIME MINISTER: Of course it did happen in our country in a small Scottish town in Dunblane, there were a whole number of schoolchildren that were murdered in cold blood and it is a terrible, terrible thing and I can't tell you how many memories what happened in Littleton Colorado evoked for people in Britain. And I just want to say to you I know this will be a time of real shock for people in America, people will ask themselves all sorts of questions about how and why such a terrible thing could happen and you have all our thoughts, and our prayers and our sympathy from Britain to you here in America. INTERVIEWER: You have such very strong laws against firearms and yet it could happen to you. America doesn't have such strong laws, it happened to it. Is this, in your opinion, preventable? PRIME MINISTER: You have got to be careful what you can promise here. We have actually, subsequent to Dunblane, we have tightened our gun control laws considerably. Now it is a different situation here and I really don't want to enter into the debate that goes on in America, but we need to find ways of both teaching our young people and signalling that the ways of violence are not the ways to resolve disputes and problems. But you know I think you would probably be a very foolhardy politician or political leader that said there were easy solutions to these problems. INTERVIEWER: The President and Vice President have both spoken out about the media effect of this, and movies and the like, do you agree with that? PRIME MINISTER: I think all these things play a role and anything that deadens people's sensibilities to acts of violence and what they really mean for people, all these things play a role, I am sure they do. But this is a time obviously when people will want to reflect and to think about the lessons that can be learned, and certainly that is what happened when Dunblane happened in Scotland because this was a terrible, terrible thing, you know they were very young children and it was something that really we never possibly thought could happen in Britain and it did. Unquote Source: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/news.asp?NewsId=366 Classic Blair blur - he robs his people of their property and liberty and then justifies it with drivel like this. The man is despicable. Kenneth Pantling Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Edmund Burke��1729-97) -- I actually watched this on CNN. He visibly started to sweat at the question and went into serious ramble mode as evidenced by the text. Steve. 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
