snipped-for-privacy@nemesis.nu (Neil Barker) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nemesis.nu:
>
>> GAWD!! You are totally mad!
>
> No dear, I'm perfectly sane. 'tis you that has the extreme views. > >
>> Perhaps you'd care to send your willie
>> waving post to Dunblane primary school?!
>
> Dunblane was a regrettable, totally preventable occurence that should
> never have happened. The police had been warned about Thomas Hamilton on
> several occasions and they took no action to revoke his certification. >
> The predictable knee-jerk reaction that followed was typical of this
> country and solved nothing. In fact, an MP involved used the phrase, "By
> doing this, we're going to take all handguns off the streets".
>
> Errrr, right. It worked really, really well, didn't it ? You should
> know living in an area with high gun crime - I wonder how long it will
> be before your offspring get shown a hand gun by someone they know, or > worse. >
> Removing legally held firearms does not solve gun crime. The people who
> hold FACs are the more responsible of society, with rare exceptions - in
> fact, recent Home Office statistics cite gun crime occuring with legally
> held firearms as "statistically insignificant".
>
> Why would someone want to go down the lengthy process of applying for a
> firearms certificate when they can speak to someone who knows someone
> who knows someone at some back street pub and buy some form of handgun
> for a couple of hundred quid ?
>
> I have nothing, repeat nothing, to be ashamed of by owning firearms for
> legitimate purposes.
>
Except for a small penis.