Firearms control (Motion) Mr Tobias Ellwood

[davyt63 1,845]

hi

just thought some of you would like to watch this

 

Firearms control (Motion) Mr Tobias Ellwood

Firearms Control

 

18:22pm to 21:40pm

 

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=7279

 

this is the guy who ( i think is trying to stop ) our sport!

 

 

all will be revealed in 2 months time

 

regards

 

Davy

[Alan Clark 7]

What he said in the house doesn't sound like the sort of thing an MP who was against shooting would say. He was talking about the embarassment of having to send the British Olympic shooting team overseas for practice.

 

The Home Affairs Committee report is at the following link

 

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmhaff/447/44702.htm

 

I think I'll be reading it later today, it's a little late now for dreary political waffle.

[pianoman 3,589]

Thanks for posting this Davy.

Anything I or anyone else can say here is simply preaching to the converted. But I did note that the thrust of Government policy study-thinking is biased more towards crimes committed with illegally held, unlicenced firearms. The outcome of such study will produce nothing. Villains will always be villains and they will always reach for illegally-sourced, unlicenced firearms, no matter how much the Government bans and restricts the rest of us.

 

Personally, it's high time the Justice system was overhauled and started being the deterrant it's supposed to be. If some nutcase like Roauld Moat gets hold of a shotgun and kills and maims with it, the law should deal with the man who carried out the crime and the people who supplied the weapon and punish them severely and decisively. Not the Law-abiding majority for whome any further bans or changes in the laws have any real meaning or impact. Ergo, our Olympic shooting teams having to deal with the ridiculous and costly business of having to train in France and Spain. Such measures have not saved one life or solved one criminal act with a firearm, as far as I'm aware.

 

Frankly, after witnessing the sheer scale of moronic support for scum like Moat, I'd say this country has some far deeper, more serious social problems to address than prosecuting an otherwise decent lad whose air rifle has been found to have gone a pound or two over limit.

 

Simon