From: "VinceB", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Listers, Can anyone tell me the time and assembly point for the London March? And in case anyone is monitoring this and might withdraw my FAC, - I'm just asking on behalf of someone else! Cheers VinceB -- All the info is on their website, I think, www.countryside-alliance.org or something like that. Found this press release: P R E S S R E L E A S E 16th January 2001 Release: Immediate Handgun ban means handgun crime 'The 1999 Criminal Statistics for England and Wales' report reveals that firearms crime has increased dramatically since the ban on handguns in 1997/1998. It reveals an increase of 31% in firearms crime in the period 1999/2000 over the previous year - the highest since 1993. Furthermore, handguns feature in more than half of the total. The situation in Scotland is no better; figures released by the Scottish Executive for the year 1998/1999 show an increase in recorded firearms crime over the previous year by 32%, with 31% of the incidents involving handguns. David Bredin, Director of Foresight, the Campaign for Shooting, said: "These new increases prove, if proof were needed, that the Government has been looking in the wrong place for solutions. Recommendations made last year, by both the House of Commons Select Committee on the Control of Firearms and the Government, failed yet again to address the real issues of the threat posed to the public by guns - that of illegal guns. Indeed successive administrations have ignored or misinterpreted the very obvious trends in armed crime. Instead they have adopted ineffective measures that discriminate against a group of people who are statistically amongst the most responsible and law-abiding citizens in the UK." He continued: "The Campaign's much needed research into this subject will be available in the Spring and it is hoped that evidence collated in the project will put pressure on the Government to act on the matter of firearms controls with a greater degree of sense than has hitherto been the case". Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
