From: "IG", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<The restrictions which you have in mind, be they heavy or light,
bear only on people who have no desire or propensity to commit
crime. Such restrictions are not in the interests of society as a
whole. So the answer to your assumption is no. Guns should be
sold and exchanged as freely as apples, individually or by the
pound.>>
Have to agree to disagree on this. I have no wish to live in a society where
guns are as freely available as you want them to be. I find that disturbing
coming from a dealer. (I presume......'Jackson rifles?)
As I said elsewhere, this viewpoint of freedom from gun control is not the
majority nor even a popular viewpoint. No credible political party
subscribes to the theory and it will never appear on any election manifesto
during the remainder of my life.
It is held by a very small number of people. No matter how honourably and
passionately those people hold the view, by very virtue of the fact that
they are so committed to the viewpoint, they will never ever be prepared to
countenance the moderate stance. They will remain, hoewver, in the minority.
That fact is inescapable.
I am not alone in the shooting world, not even alone on cybershooters, in
being an advocate of sensible restrictions on ownership. It is amazing, and
amusing it has to be said, to see the frenzied outbursts from people when
someone has the sheer nerve to state an opposite viewpoint.
