Ian! How can you question the absolute brilliance of that journalistic work? Best I've seen in quite sometime. j/k of course, but I only wanted to show it because it shocked me that there were brits who were arguing for gun rights. I thought you guys were pretty much all of one mind on the issue. Guess I was wrong.
On Jan 31, 1:22 am, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > Gun control laws designed to ensure that only decent "responsible" > individuals can possess guns don't ever work. Michael Ryan's guns were all > legally bought and licensed, and yet he murdered 16 people and injured 15 in > the Hungerford massacre. He was also a member of a gun club. Apparently > filling in forms and acting normal for 5 minutes whilst you buy a gun isn't > too difficult, even for a very disturbed character intent on serious harm. > Is there a better solution for these controls? > > Although I hate to question the journalistic integrity of that clip from > RedneckTV, the idea that the rise in UK gun crime is because of the handgun > ban is way wide of the mark. Overwhelmingly, the new gun crime we're seeing > in the UK in gang-related (gang on gang); suggesting that we open up some > shops where they can buy more guns for their little turf or race wars is an > epic failure of logic. More guns isn't the answer to a gun problem, and the > liberal American legislation, given their gun crime figures, should be seen > as a serious warning to all countries, not something to copy. Remember, in > the UK, gun crime in robberies (for example) continues to fall (Home > Office). And UK gun crime only accounts for 1% of all violent crime (Home > Office). > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
