CS: Pol-Revolver tribute to shot Beatle

2000-07-14 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It is not clear whether this statue was merely "unveiled" >in Trafalgar Square or whether it is to be a perminent fixture >there, if the latter is true then it is a disgrace and I doubt >it will survive another march

CS: Pol-legitimate uses

2000-07-14 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom, I'm afraid I have to disagree also. >I must disagree with you cars legitimate reason AK47's don't. I used to use >similar weapon in UK for pract. rifle (I still use an AK47 in Norway). Firearms were invented and d

CS: Pol-Revolver tribute to shot Beatle

2000-07-17 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Anne Pearston was criticised for the simple reason that she was not >from Dunblane and had no direct connection to any of the victims or >their families. But she had a legal right to campaign abiout anything she felt strongly about

CS: Pol-checks and balances

2000-07-19 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Well, Paul, I think that you owe it to yourself, and >the rest of your fellow citizens to first understand that none >of you voted for anything. Was there in fact a plebiscite placed >before all of the people, asking them to v

CS: Pol-checks and balances

2000-07-21 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >And, you >can set about to prove just that, by going to each elected MP's >office and asking questions on the subject of firearms, questions >that they ought to be able to answer correctly, and affirmatively >and most i

CS: Pol-Democracy, referendums etc

2000-07-21 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >So when anyone (e.g. Paul M) suggests the handgun ban >was "the will of the majority" I say, Balderdash! So, it wasn't the 'will of the majority'? Your comments about corruption imply some gain from all of

CS: Pol-guns v. knives

2000-07-24 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On the news as we speak is a case in Wales where a man has >apparently poisoned to death his entire family. He poisoned them with a blunt instrument it appears. I think it's stretching things to bring in fire and sarin gas. I t

CS: Pol-armed robbers

2000-07-13 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[...] >Looking at the police helicopter video of the Rochdale >car-chase shooting case, doubtless everyone said "bad guns!" >and nobody said "bad cars!". Logically, they should have >been saying "bad

CS: Pol-legitimate uses

2000-07-16 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >You are in fact safer in most parts of the US than you are here, because >the violent crime is concentrated in certain urban areas, whereas the >burglary rate is lower generally and so is theft in the rural and >surburban areas c

CS: Pol-toddlers find sawn-off shotgun

2000-07-16 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes, > which have been in the street for more than 20 years, removed. My garden's a hell of a mess. I'm thinking of putting one of my old shotguns in the grass and scatte

CS: Pol-Revolver tribute to shot Beatle

2000-07-16 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >It is a disgrace for several reasons. The organisation behind >the sculpture seem to be using Lennon's popularity as a means >of promoting anti-gun propoganda to the masses, as if to say >"if there were no guns Lennon

CS: Pol-guns v. knives

2000-07-22 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Maybe for the untrained. However, I would much rather be shot than slashed >by an experienced knife user. The damage done by a sharp knife, used >effectively, is very tough to repair before the victim bleeds out. Surely, a >h