From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The article reproduced below appeared in the today's issue of The Sunday Times. In the same issue is a large article about three Dunblane mothers travelling to Washington in support of the Million Moms Anti-gun March there. There must be something very basically wrong with Dunblane Moms since four years after the massacre not one has deduced what would have happened if the teacher in charge of the classroom where the massacre took place had a small pistol (or a large one) and knew how to use it. If I asked for the answers to be sent to me on postcards and I offered a substantial monetary prize for the right answer, do you think my money is safe, because no one will guess it? This is a clearest case I have ever seen of the brainless leading the brainless and I am worried that there are so many of them!!! How can we have democracy, good government, sound business practices, success in Europe and in the World, when so many people believe that passing laws that only the law abiding will obey could have any effect whatsoever on public safety or safety in any form? Alex. ____________________ Armoury show angers parents Richard Brooks Arts Editor THE Royal Armouries intends to mount what it calls "a deliberately provocative art exhibition" involving guns, children, pregnant women and descriptions of how to construct lethal weapons, including crossbows. Warning Shots, which opens at the Leeds museum next month, has angered groups such as the Dunblane Support Centre, set up after the Scottish school massacre in 1996, and the Gun Control Network, which has campaigned for tighter firearm regulations. "We are opposed to any exhibition that might glorify guns and the gun culture," said Gill Marshall-Andrews, chairman of the network. Guy Wilson, master of the Royal Armouries - which last year received an extra �lm from the government on top of its annual �4m grant - admitted that the exhibition would be "very controversial". Christine Borland, who was on the Turner Prize shortlist in 1997, used 10 different handguns in her work, The Quickening, the Lightning, the Crowning, which shows her firing guns when she was five months' pregnant. "Firing one is fright-eningly easy," said Borland. The Scottish artist has also recorded foetal heart beats, which she juxtaposed with the sound of bullets being fired, to compare the foetus nestling in the pelvis with the bullet in the gun. "Museums usually distance people's emotions," she says. "I want to touch them." Monika Oeschler's Strip shows a video of girls from eight to 14, dismantling and re-assembling hand guns. As the video is shown, the lullaby Hush Little Baby is played. "What interests me here is the loss of innocence," said Oesch-ler. While children will not be barred from Warning. Shots, there will be notices that the exhibition is disturbing. -------[Cybershooters contacts]-------- Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
