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No explicit mention of guns, but...
"Listeners to
BBC Radio 4's Today programme were asked to suggest a piece of legislation to
improve life in Britain, with the promise that an MP would then attempt to get
it onto the statute books.
But yesterday, 26,000 votes later, the winning proposal was denounced as a "ludicrous, brutal, unworkable blood-stained piece of legislation" - by Stephen Pound, the very MP whose job it is to try to push it through Parliament. Mr Pound's reaction was provoked by the news that the winner of Today's "Listeners' Law" poll was a plan to allow homeowners "to use any means to defend their home from intruders" - a prospect that could see householders free to kill burglars, without question. "The people have spoken," the Labour MP replied to the programme, "... the bastards." I believe today's Daily Telegraph printed a story with Tony Martin's public support for the results of the poll. And while I'm taking up space in people's Inboxes, it's nothing to do with guns but I know some have at least a passing interest in Switzerland, not just the firearms angle but WWII era history. http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=477385 "A new law came into force yesterday finally pardoning the many Swiss citizens who were condemned and punished for illegally helping refugees [from Nazi-occupied Europe]."
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