The latest missive from HM Govt

Originally posted by Stewart Loy
Richard,

What brought this latest trampling of rights on? Did somebody try to rob the beer store with a PIAT? Was a Polsten used in a smash and grab?

Paranoia.
We have a gun ban, not control. The govt sees even more draconian laws as a way of stopping gun crime, a crime that shot (sorry) up when the last disarming by removal of legal hand guns from the certificated few happened.

In fact the disarming of the UK started in 1922 and is unlawful, subsequent actions are just as unlawful and the Home Sec was summoned under Magna Carta and our Bill of Rights; however, although these documents are unalterable, the Govt proclaimed that they are so old as to be ignorable; this after a careful lobbying of parliament to have the speaker at the time, Betty Boothroyd, state from the chair that Magna Carta et al was indeed valid and applicable. This of course is recorded in Hansard.

Just as in Canada there seem to be no end of wankers to dream up new laws, but nobody wants to enforce the old ones.

The reason, or excuse, is given as the occasion of the so-called "Hungerford Massacre" and then the Dunblane incident. Both would have been avoided if the existing procedures had been properly carried out.

In the latter incident, the then chief of police resigned the day after placing himself out of inquiry reach with a nice pension and the media has a "D Notice" (gagging order) placed on it about any issue concerning the removal and recompence of private individuals owning legal handguns together with the compensation given to traders whose livelihood has been destroyed. The official investigation findings are under a 100yr rule.

Why?

The professional, but disconnected lady who ran the successful campaign to have all handguns banned has disappeared; even gun-sympathetic senior police officers cannot trace this person through their special connections and we have to deduce the Ministry of Intelligence has replaced the identity and life of this person in total.

Why?

Personally I'm getting the distinct odour of a rat.

Perhaps the Americans on the forum can answer how well a prohibition works.

Quite so. As has been eloquently stated elsewhere:
"Gun control: The theory that people who are willing to ignore laws against rape, torture, kidnapping, theft, and murder will obey a law which prohibits them from owning a firearm."


R.