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Ironically not in Germany they do love their guns - probably a hangover from the 20's

And there are very few countries that explicitly ban all fire arms even the Uk which has very stringent laws still allows shotgun licenses.



What a brilliant idea! We can have hacking tool licenses! Wouldn't the government love that? oh god, never repeat this to anyone.


I suspect that a fair number if not a majority of MEP's would like that. I think many are still are in the PTT mindset where the national phone company (owned by the state) provided all these sort of electronic services.

Of course people like me would still work for the GPO or DBP or ATT and have cool email addresses like c=uk cn=maurice - but subs like the rest of you would have email addresses that looked more like phone numbers.

BTW I used to have root on on the UK's ADMD - in internet terms this is the equivalent of having root on .com


> And there are very few countries that explicitly ban all fire arms even the Uk which has very stringent laws still allows shotgun licenses.

I'm from the UK myself, so I'm aware my perspective on firearms might be skewed somewhat.

Nevertheless, in my experience there seem to be very few people who see the restrictions on the possession of firearms as a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

There are plenty of people who, although acknowledging that more widespread firearm possession may have certain benefits, would nevertheless rather live in a society in which firearms are few and far between.




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