From: "jim.craig", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This to the Scottish Sunday Post, one of our leading 'anti' tabloids following a huge story on a series of gun murders among the Glasgow drug dealers. ----- Original Message ----- > The Post rightly highlights the current wave of gun use by Glasgow > gangsters, a trend of violence which is not confined to that city but is > sadly a nationwide phenomenon and further proof it such were needed of the > idiocy of the 1997 Firearms Act, passed in the wake of the Dunblane tragedy. > In a week when Britain's sporting shooters took Olympic gold in clay pigeon > shooting, but no British team could be entered in the pistol events due to > the ban on handguns, could further proof be needed that removing guns from > British target shooters does nothing to prevent the criminal misuse of > firearms by those to whom legal restrictions mean nothing? > The truth is that the British people have been conned by a combination of > cynical politicians and anti-gun lobbyists into believing that the 1997 Act > would 'sweep the guns from the streets' and make the country a safer place. > Recent events in Glasgow and elsewhere prove conclusively that such is not > the case and an honest Government (if such an animal exists!) would now > review this legislation which does nothing to deter the criminal use of guns > while preventing legitimate target shooters from representing their country > at the highest level. 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
