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James Macnair writes, << The Tories may have been the party that enacted the
ban on handguns , however , do you think that they would have acted that way
had it not been for Labour electioneering on the back of Dunblane ?. They had
their hands forced. >>
This really will not do. Any political party can choose whether to pursue
aims based on reason, justice and morality - or to engage in the sort of
contemptible, shallow, "who's the toughest on gun crime" scapegoating we saw
in 96/97. Well before Labour got into its stride, certainly before they
brought the ghastly Pearston woman along to their conference, Major stated in
summer 96 that handguns would be banned, and though he was compelled to go
through the motions of retracting this undermining of Cullen, we knew they
were going to do it. Face the facts: the three principal parties are
short-term opportunists who will do and say anything at all - and turn their
coats the week after - if they think it will gain them a momentary advantage.
They are cynical, unprincipled pragmatists who seize every chance they get to
increase the power of the State and diminish that of the individual. Forget
about appeals to reason - politicians need a bloody good fright, and
something which threatens their seats or their pockets is necessary. March
18th? It should be March 21st ...
Anthony Harrison
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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