From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I have just received a reply from my MP regarding the validity of the GCN
>(all six members) and its position on the FCC. The reply was the usual
>covering letter, but also enclosed was a copy of a letter from Charles
>Clarke, the minister at the Home Office, his letter is reproduced below :
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>Comments anyone ?
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>I got the same letter about a year ago.
>
>Steve.
Steve, & Atom,
Comments? You bet!
Like for instance, what is an absolutist organization as the
GCN, with its political motivations to totally eliminate personally
held firearms, doing on a committee which stated purpose is to
deal with the more mundane issues of ownership and use?
If having <that> organization on the FCC is supposed to be
a validating issue of balance, then how can a group of only six people
have any validity, where there are numerous other organizations that
have even more an interest in balance, yet are not even considered for
committee membership?
How, I'd like to ask, would having a group of six rapists be
seen as having any kind of validity in the name of balance in a woman's
rape counselling center?
The GCN already has more than enough say in the issues of
firearms, by virtue of an unlimited voice in the Parliament, in the
mass media, and in the FCC.
If the issue is one of balance, then it is the community of
firearms owners and users which needs exponentially greater exposure
of its thoughts in this matter, both in the Parliament, and the mass media.
The FCC should be concerned only with the purpose for which
it was instituted, and not perverted by a subversive organization which
has stated innumerable times its extremist goals.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too
much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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I haven't actually heard anything out of the GCN for a long time,
other than Gill's infrequent appearances for rent-a-quotes. They
seemed rather silent when the crime statistics came out showing
that the handgun ban has been an absolute disaster.
I like that quote!
Steve.
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