🚀 go-pugleaf

rsutc@twu.ca (Rick Sutcliffe) writes:

> In article <3T0qVc3w165w@aroga.wimsey.com>, pook@aroga.wimsey.com (Jim
> Pook) wrote:
> 
> > How Public Opinion Polls Mislead Politicians
> > Comments Made at the Fed Up Rally, Parliament Hill
> > September 22, 1994
> > H. Taylor Buckner
> >  
> <<lots of interesting stuff deleted>>
> 
> I wonder if the pro gun lobby would care to try their hand at writing gun
> control legislation that would recognize their hobby and yet improve the
> liklihood of assault victims surviving because there were fewer deadly
> weapons with which to conduct attacks available to the less responsible. 
> After all, it may be people rather than guns that kill, but it is a heck
> of a lot easier to kill someone with a gun than without one.
> 
> What would the gun hobbiests accept?  No controls at all?  Better ones? 
> What would they consider better?



  We've expressed our thoughts on the subject many times, and let our 
politicians know via letters, faxes, demonstrations, face-to-face 
meetings with MPs...you name it.  What *won't* work is piling more 
ineffective, meaningless restrictions on top of all the old ineffective, 
meaningless restrictions that have not only failed to stem the tide of 
violence, but allowed it time to grow even worse.