OFF: Ted Nugent - this ones for Mike

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Mon Aug 21 09:02:18 EDT 2000


michael blackman writes:

> Here in Australia all semi automatic weapons and a large variety of weapons
> have been prohibited since the shootings in Tasmania.  The prohibition was
> started mainly due to emotional over reaction.
>
> Since the prohibition was initiated the incidents of violent crimes being
> commited has increased dramatically - ironically - with the very types of
> weapons that are supposedly unavaiable to the public.

Unsurprisingly, after the Dunblane gun ban in the UK, gun crimes
increased after the ban. The Home Office has since denied that the
reason for the ban was to reduce gun crime, though it didn't tell us
what the point of the ban could possibly otherwise be.

FoFP



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