U.N. Discusses Gun Control Measures...

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FROM BBC NEWS; UK

Sce. Gen. Kofi Annan's proposals:

In his report Mr Annan recommended that member states should:

Better enforce UN arms embargoes on nations in conflict

Adopt gun control laws including a prohibition of unrestricted trade and private ownership of small arms

Require arms manufacturers to put serial numbers and identification marks on weapons

Ensure stockpiles of unmarked weapons are carefully guarded to prevent theft, and destroyed as soon as possible

Share information on the registration of guns and on legal transactions, in order to trace black market deals

Stop shipments of weapons to regions of conflict

-- Jack Mercer (mercerjohn@usa.net), September 26, 1999

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-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), September 26, 1999.


Well, if I wanted to control things and have my word be the first and final then I would find it necessary to remove all opposition.

This is from the NRA magazine, American Rifleman, by Wayne LaPierre,

"The monster began killing his two small children and his wife while they slept. Mark O. Barton smashed their heads with a hammer, inflicting blunt trauma.

If Mark O. Barton had stopped at the beating/drowning killing of his wife and kids, the nation would likely not have heard a single comment from Bill and Hillary Clinton or Al Gore...

But Barton gave all of them what they needed. What they always wait for.

He went on to murder others--with a handgun.

Nobody called for hammer control."

There are other incidents like Steven Allen Abrams killing some children in a schoolyard in Costa Mesa, CA. It did not get national attention because the idiot used a Cadillac to do his dirty deeds. If you want national attention from the President and his ilk then you must use an evil gun. Apparently Cadillacs are not evil.

Politicos are the problem!

And to quote myself..."WE WIN!"

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), September 26, 1999.


Ahhh...the UN and gun control. Is this the same UN that sat idly by and watched Rwandans get slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands. Pardon my cynicism, but after watching the UN's indifference to the massacre, I'm not inclined to believe anything it has to say.

-- Killer Bunny (KillerBunny@henhouse.com), September 26, 1999.

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