CS: Pol-US Right-To-Carry Laws

2001-01-12 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This first bit is really directed at ET: - would you agree that the US right-to-carry laws are in fact providing the US State and Federal governments with a list of those most likely to use ANY arms at all to defend themselves with agai

CS: Pol-More nonsensical gibberish

2001-01-16 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Police move to tackle huge rise in gun crime By Ian Burrell, Home Affairs Correspendent 15 January 2001 A national firearms database is to be established for the first time, amid fears over record levels of gun crime. --snip--

CS: Misc-Proofing

2001-01-15 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree with Steve. An inspection of the Oxford Dictionary will confirm that there are no such words as proofed or proofing. An item is sent for "proof" (ie proof of its integrity), when done it said to be "proved&qu

CS: Legal-Shops flout teenage knife law

2001-01-11 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may be missing something here. I understand why it is illegal to SELL children knives, cigarettes, alcohol etc, but why is not illegal for under age individuals to BUY or attempt to buy these articles? My wife worked for

CS: Misc-police weapons

2001-01-10 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, Richard, In the matter of 'illegal weapons', allow me to comment: First, it is hideous that any nation would be a signatory to such an accord and proceed to employ any of those prohibited item to be used a

CS: Misc-Proofing

2001-01-17 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dare I ask, what has the American Heritage Dictionary got to do with the English language? I would consider the custodian of the English language to be the Oxford English Dictionary. Bob Steve, Bob, Bob: Toss an

CS: Target-308 Round destroys MI

2001-01-17 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Worth a look, even to remind us all of the need for proofing http://communities.prodigy.net/sportsrec/gz-762d.html Tom C Steve, Tom, I wonder if the bullet was ever recovered? Also, it would seem

CS: Pol-hunting ban

2001-01-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yesterdays vote in the House of Prats marked a new low for the principle of freedom in the no longer Great Britain. --snip-- Our transatlantic cousins got totally fed up with this sort of thing over 200 years ago, so why ar

CS: Pol-the debate in Parliament

2001-01-21 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] But Tony Banks(Lab, West Ham) who is against hunting, gave assurances that he, personally, would never ban angling. He said: "You don't hunt fish with dogs and if you are a decent angler you put the fish back. I am a coars

CS: Pol-US Surgeon Gen and tv violence

2001-01-23 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] LA Times http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20010117/t04603.html Wednesday, January 17, 2001 Surgeon Gen. Links TV, Real Violence Entertainment: Report finds repeated early childhood exposure to intense shows, video games causes

CS: Crime-Gun laws spur more crime

2001-01-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Believe me there is no crime problem to any unusual extent in Newcastle and it's almost certainly safer than many other places I could mention. Jonathan Laws Steve, Jonathan, Well, in lieu of the inferenc

CS: Field-foxes

2001-01-31 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] fox meat is tasty or otherwise, is a matter to be determined. I tend to think that it might require a bit of curing time, not unlike elk, wild goose, duck, bear, and some other animals. And, as with those animals, spice -

CS: Field-foxes

2001-01-29 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll wager none of you gentleman has ever paunched a fox, nor handled its flesh, else you wouldn't suggest anyone eats it. The flesh of a fox is as dark as that of a hare, but it smells as bad as the fox itself. It is a rich meat

CS: Pol-AIC Australia gun laws fail

2001-01-28 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Courier Mail - Queensland Gun laws marginal in impact on crime Chris Griffith 26jan01 AUSTRALIA'S gun laws have had only a marginal effect on reducing firearm-related crime. Steve, SSAA, It is rather i

CS: Field-foxes

2001-01-28 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't believe that cats feature on the fox's menu: mice, birds, worms, fish chips, pizza and hamburgers yes, but not domestic cats. Jonathan is right, foxes give domestic moggies their due respect. I once watched some night vision

CS: Pol-Placards and Banners at Countryside March

2001-01-25 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The nation might be sympathetic towards claims for the restoration of an internationally recognised sport, but demanding something that we lost half a century ago would be seen as unreasonable and like trying to run before being ab

CS: Misc-Fire Resistant Military Clothing

2001-01-24 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of any reports or policies regarding the dangers of synthetic operational clothing or equipment which may have followed a fire on board a ship during the Falklands War? Does anyone know if all the present UK operationa

CS: Pol-Fishing next

2001-01-24 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Came by this from the telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003609235117673rtmo=r 9EFSXXXatmo=tttdpg=/et/01/1/13/nchip13.html --snip-- Robin Webb, a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, said [...] Alt

CS: Pol-Hunting ban

2001-01-24 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a group of people so concerned about the environment, local ecology and being divorced from nature this seems rather perverse. --snip-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --snip-- I think a ban on fox hunting will be the w

CS: Target-.50 Peacekeeper

2001-02-01 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Like you suggested before, it only needs someone to neck 50BMG down a bit - and guess what? They have! See latest version of 'The Accurate Rifle' magazine. Cheers VinceB -- I assume you mean the .50 Peacekeeper. Steve. Ste

CS: Pol-GCN and the FCC

2001-02-01 Thread E.J. Totty
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 a

CS: Misc-More stupidity in America

2001-02-02 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll raise your finger with my chicken... :-(Stupidity running rampant. Mike Pietrantoni Boy Suspended for Pointing Chicken .c The Associated Press JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy was suspended from school for 3 d

CS: Pol-The March : Slogans

2001-02-07 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about, "Mr. Blair this time we're up in arms, Next time we'll be up and ARMED" Subtle ? A Cynic is what a Romantic Calls a Realist Clive01 Steve, Clive, We are reduce to the

CS: Misc-Haiku

2001-02-07 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] To write a poem in seventeen syllables is very diffi Steve, Charles, Quite probably so, in a short little span is quite iffy But then English, more complex to speak, is m

CS: Misc-Haiku

2001-02-08 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] To write a poem in seventeen syllables is very diffi Quite probably so, in a short little span is quite iffy But then English, more complex to speak, is more spiffy! - Not less not more but

CS: Pol-Winston Churchill....

2001-02-08 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't it a bit harsh to claim that winnie was the first to introduce gun control just because you had to give 'reasonable' proof that you were a homeowner ?. After all the 1903 Act hardly brought in tons of new laws did it ?. --

CS: Pol-More Anti-Gun Lies Refuted

2001-02-12 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?21648 --snip-- "Currently, only a small minority of adult Ame

CS: Pol-ACPO may lose independence

2001-02-11 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Police Review 2/2/01 Article 1 ACPO could lose independence over lack of funds, says president By Tina Orr-Munro --big snip-- Steve, Charles, Maybe someone should suggest that seeing as how

CS: Pol-LACS abuse

2001-02-11 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, hello group. I'm now just a teensy bit annoyed having just done my shopping in Oxford's pleasant Westgate centre when, as I walked out of the door, I found two of the Loonies Against Country Squires (lacs) at a table gettin

CS: Pol-Emigrate!

2001-02-15 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] --snip-- In short the system is making things worse not better and it's about time that those in the system relearned one startling fact. It is there to help those 'idiots' not to feed off of them and control them, how do you do t

CS: Pol-NZ gun registration unlikely

2001-02-16 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://onenews.nzoom.com/news_detail/0,1227,29750,00.html Setback for gun registration plan Steve, Mike, John (Howat), It's good (and that is stating it mildly) that John's organization has made inroads in t

CS: Crime-Time to take guns out of community

2001-02-16 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] a.. On Thursday a man was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey for stabbing to death a rival in a crowded mobile phone shop in Harlesden. Rupert "Birdeye" James, 35, was acquitted of murdering Dean Samuels but convicted

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-17 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] If hunting is not cruel, why then am I prosecuted if I set a pack of large dogs onto a smaller, solitary dog? All that the Hunting Bill really can be said to be doing is simply extending to wild mammals the protection that domestic mammals ha

CS: Pol-Proliferation of Small Arms

2001-02-18 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] STOP SPREAD OF WEAPONS, URGES COOK 131054 FEB 10 By PA News Reporter The Foreign Secretary today called for an international fund to be set up to help stop the spread of weapons around the world. Robin Cook said it was needed to stop small

CS: Pol-Positive reply from Bracknell MP

2001-02-18 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike: You might also comment that if that 'government' of yours cannot trust you with firearms, how can they trust you with any kind of expression (as in speech, or press), as that is always the 'gateway' through which all oth

CS: Crime-Getting the guns off the street!!

2001-02-18 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] If he is a police armourer he almost certainly has Section 5 authority so there is an excellent chance he has done nothing wrong. Steve. Steve, David, Maybe he irritated someone? That comment above about "

CS: Target-Shooting venues in Florida?

2001-02-18 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Folks I think this is a perennial questionbut here goes. I am going to Florida early April...the Orlando Area. Are there any "interesting* shooting venues. I would appreciate a change from the *Mickey Mouse* attractions I wil

CS: Pol-Emigrate!

2001-02-26 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that all systems manipulate to one degree or another, but does that make this country right? Never said it did. I was just illustrating the truism of the old saying - 'you can't beat the system'. You have inferred a lot from my single

CS: Target-Remington 700 faulty safety

2001-02-26 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A)nd then why was he releasing the safety catch to do so when with unmodified Remington 700s the bolt can be opened whilst the safety catch is engaged? Regards, Peter Sarony

CS: Misc-instant incapacitation

2001-02-23 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] re. twitching of the trigger finger. --snip-- After complete decaptitation and removal of any connection between forebrain/midbrain/hindbrain and rest of body, bits still twitch. One of the twitching bits could be on a trigger or a

CS: Pol-Face values. etc

2001-02-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I've just finished putting the finishing touches to the end of my involvement with the shooting sports; Returning my Certs to the police, handing in what ammo I had, put my shotguns in the local shop for sale etc. --snip-- S

CS: Field-Siberia's top wolf hunter

2001-02-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Times 17.2.01 Woman aged 62 is Siberia's top wolf hunter From Giles Whittell in Moscow A SIBERIAN woman aged 62 has been awarded L50 and an unlimited hunting licence for killing more wolves than any man in her province. --sn

CS: Pol-The march in March

2001-02-20 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The essence of the question is: if a wild predatory animal inflicts a certain level of misery upon its prey -- in the process of subduing it, what would you deem to be onerous when a human is conducting the same act?

CS: Crime-Bodyguard killed

2001-02-22 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Times 19.2.01 By Stewart Tendler Crime Correspondent A MOTHER and her two children are in hiding after a wealthy nightclub owner was shot and injured and his bodyguard killed. Arthur de Sousa, 33, was found lying sprawled on a road while Al

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