"Clay Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No explicit mention of guns, but... > > http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=477413 > > "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.
This was a self-selected poll, so the results do not mean anything. More at http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2004/01#badpoll -- Tim _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
