CS: Pol-Sport minister criticises handgun ban
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think she deserves a medal myself. Steve. Well, you took the words out of my mouth, Steve. Why don't we send her letters/emails/faxes of thanks. If she were to receive, say, 5000 letters of thanks, perhaps her "colleagues" would then become aware that this is not a dead issue and that the previous administrations committed not just a great injustice, but was and still is also guilty of misleading the public as regards Public Safety, which has not been enhanced on bit by the 1997 Act. Alex -- Actually I've got a better idea that will really rub their noses in it, why not nominate her for a knighthood or an MBE or something? Does anyone know how to do this? Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Sport minister criticises handgun ban
From: "Brian Toller", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually I've got a better idea that will really rub their noses in it, why not nominate her for a knighthood or an MBE or something? Does anyone know how to do this? Steve. http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/ceremonial/ Brian T -- Okay, print off the form and fill it in and send it in!! Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Sport minister criticises handgun ban
From: "Stone.s451", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only one day in, but this must be a strong contender for the 2001 Cybershooters Award. Unfortunately, Miss Hoey does not appear to have e-mail. -- The way the award works is that I give it to the person who did the most last year, so the award would be for 2000. I think she certainly qualifies for that but I had decided to do a special one for the most contribution last century. Or I could do it the original way if people really want it to go to Kate Hoey. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Sport minister criticises handgun ban
From: "roger gascoigne", [EMAIL PROTECTED] For those of without access to the full name/home address etc could the basics be made available ? Thanks Roger -- I don't think it matters, I get the impression that's more for people we may not have heard of before. I think everyone knows who Kate Hoey is. She's a Government minister, I'd put House of Commons, SW1A 0AA as the address. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
CS: Pol-Sport minister criticises handgun ban
From: "David M", [EMAIL PROTECTED] ET ISSUE 2048 Tuesday 2 January 2001 Hoey criticises ban on handguns By David Sapsted THE post-Dunblane ban on handgun possession has done nothing to stop criminals getting their hands on firearms, according to Kate Hoey, the sports minister. Kate Hoey: 'I have never accepted the link between legal holding of firearms and illegal weapons' She accuses fellow Labour MPs of taking "a very unfair attitude" towards legitimate shooting activities and says it is an activity that young children should be encouraged to participate in. The minister, a farmer's daughter who enraged the anti-shooting lobby with her praise of British winners at the Olympics and Paralympics, also reiterates support of foxhunting in an interview in the January edition of Sporting Gun magazine. Defending properly organised shooting activities, she says: "I have never accepted the link between legal holding of firearms and illegal weapons. I represent Vauxhall in London where there's a substantial number of illegal weapons on the black market, very easily available, and I'm not sure that the handgun ban has done anything to prevent illegal weapons getting into the wrong hands. "Obviously, after Hungerford and Dunblane, there was a kind of attitude that somehow there must be something slightly wrong with anyone who was involved in shooting. I knew this to be untrue and I thought even some of my colleagues in the House of Commons took a very unfair attitude." She says it is important that legitimate shooting be protected in any future legislation. "I will continue to do what I can to show people who are cynical and unsupportive of competitive shooting that it is a very good and disciplined sport that actually would be of benefit to many young people, in the right circumstances and with the right supervision," she adds. On foxhunting, the minister states that she is opposed to a ban and will vote against one, but she says: "I'm afraid there will be a lot of people who have a complete and utter fixation on getting rid of hunting." Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
