PC Paul
re: gun control:
Man fined for flicking ash out of car window 535Jeff York ... No. That principle was well and truly breached by the concept of the parking ticket, forty-five+ years ago. And by the administrative penalties charged by (say) the Inland Revenue (eg, for not...
How do you mean, "funny"? You had to have a licence or permit for them, didn't you? That would have been refused to many (if not most) people. Are you (like Brimstone) confusing gun control with the banning of certain sorts of gun?
You can still have a gun if you want one (though not a pistol) but as ever, it must be subject to controls, even in your possession. Some people just can't have a gun, and that too is what is known as control.
I know. It's one aspect of gun control. But it isn't the only one and it certainly wasn't the first. It might not even be the last.
Perhaps. But it wasn't my point and was introduced by Brimstone only because he misunderstood what was meant by "gun control".
His point was that penalties applied to lorry drivers couldn't completely prevent illegal immigration in the backs of lorries. My parallel point was that gun control doesn't eliminate liquidates with guns, but that's not a reason to let just anyone have a gun. There may be reasons for not having gun controls, but the fact that liquidates happen with or without them is not one of those reasons, any more than the fact that some illegal immigrants will always get through is justification for just giving up any idea of frontier control.
