From: [c d t] at [sw.stratus.com] (C. D. Tavares)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Daily Telegraph on British Gun Control
Date: 16 Jun 1993 03:21:01 GMT

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From:    Jacques Tucker/MO 70531,2070
To:      All

Quoting a message from VERN HUMPHREY on the Paul Revere Network/Midwest BBS:
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While in England, I picked up the following from the Daily Telegraph (London,
Thursday, May 27th, 1993):

        "On Tuesday, the Daily Telegraph reported the torture and
        robbery of an elderly couple in Highgate, whose home was invaded
        by criminals for 90 hellish minutes.  Yesterday, there was the
        constrasting case of 66-year-old Mr. Tony Evans, who encountered
        a stranger in his cottage in Pluckley, Kent, and after suffering
        injuries in a struggle, shot the man in the knee with his
        shotgun.  The difference between these two events demonstrates
        the difference between having the means of self-defense in a
        crime-ridden country, and not."

The article goes on to say:

        "The authorities are no longer able to provide public order, and
        yet they will certainly not appreciate you taking responsibility
        for your own safety in an increasingly dangerous environment.
        If you are faced with mortal danger, they would much rather you
        died in an orderly fashion."
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