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Subject: Re: [OM] Tragedy
From: SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 10:30:25 +0200
This issue is a tough personal one for me, I enjoyed shooting for many years, starting when in school shooting airgun for the village team - most teams were pub based and it was much of the pub culture as darts and dominoes (aim generally improves with a touch of alchohol) . I then moved on to captain the university rifle team and had full responsibility for the armory. The people I met and knew through this sport are normal and none of them went on to shoot anyone. I personally enjoyed the sport because the level of concentration relaxed me.

Roll forward a few years and I am working in Scotland between and we get a call in the office that they are frantically wanting to speak to my boss at that time (although technically I was self employed - you always have a boss), he was actually in Germany for a meeting, the reason they wanted to speak to him was to tell him that his 5 year old son had been shot and killed during the Dunblane massacre - I can only imagine what he must have felt but I was close enough to the situation to get a better idea than most.

I now live in Switzerland which has a very high level of gun ownership due to military reasons, it used to be every male between 18 and 40 had a weapon at home, there is the occasional shooting (one this week in fact, a man kills his inlaws and brother in law and a neighbour before killing himself - he was not swiss and used an unlicened gun, but generally they are rare.

The point I am trying to make is that I am familiar with both sides but I don't think you can regulate against such things - most people will play fair but then they are at risk from a very small percentage who don't and I have always speculated a lunatic in a car, lorry or bus could do as much damage as someone armed, however in that case they don't have such an easy way of committing suicide after the event, its not the gun itself that shoots, we need to find a way of preventing people from doing such acts which is incredibly difficult to do as usually the perpetrator is no longer around to question - soon if not already I expect google would be able to alert on warning signs for people in such a mental state.


On 13/05/2015 02:54, Chris Trask wrote:
2nd amendment in action, again.



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