Here we go again.......new ban discussed today in Parliament

[GeeRam]

With all that's going on in Ukraine, this seems to have slipped under the radar......discussed today by MP's.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-60574477

[Sim G]

I actually don’t have the words to effectively convey how utterly predicable and pathetic the arguments he has presented are.

Bad people do bad things. That’s an understanding that people today cannot grasp…

Doesn’t help that the police fvcked this one up completely!

[DaveB]

Unfortunately new, unnecessary and Draconian, gun laws after a shooting are as predictable as night following after day.

Here in New Zealand, this used to be a largely rural nation, and firearms were in the majority of the homes. This has now changed. Fully 50% of the population lives in just one city - Auckland which is full of not only city folk, but immigrants from places where firearms ownership is not the norm. City folk simply do not understand guns, and they never will. To them gun = bad. It is as simple as that. Politicians - when they bother to listen - will listen to the places with the most votes. I wish it were otherwise, but not sure what we can do about it.

[Blackstuff]

Yet again the FLD f**ks up and the shooting community get to carry the can, spectacular. I do wonder whether now medical sign offs are mandatory whether GPs will start getting part of the blame as well...........sorry, you have no idea how hard that was to type with a straight face!

[Pippin89]

Let's be honest here. Pumps are the slowest rate of fire shotguns among the 3 main types. And in a normal shooting situation it is safer as it is not loaded between shots until you manually reload it. A semi or double barrel is sat there loaded after taking a single shot. So what they are attempting to ban is probably the physically safest shotgun.

[dromia]

Ssssshhh!

[Rockhopper]

The BBC article linked above has been edited since it was first published - in the original article they say something along the lines of "because Mr Pollard is only an MP there is no chance of this becoming law".

[dromia]

Aye members bills don't have the same weight as government proposals.

However with this dissolute government and its iniquitous prime minister's craving for idolatry this is just the populist sort of thing he would jump on meet his craving to be liked.

[GeeRam]

Aye members bills don't have the same weight as government proposals.

However with this dissolute government and its iniquitous prime minister's craving for idolatry this is just the populist sort of thing he would jump on meet his craving to be liked.

Indeed.

I caught another bit of this MP's opinion of this again this afternoon on Parliament TV (something I avoid, but was channel flicking and saw who it was) so watched for 5 mins - he's utterly clueless.

But, its the utterly clueless that get to make the decisions.

[Christel]

Google Paulette Hamilton, Birmingham Erdington...talk about clueless...