Comments on: Guns and knives: councillors speak out http://www.libdemvoice.org/guns-and-knives-councillors-speak-out-3138.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:13:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jennie http://www.libdemvoice.org/guns-and-knives-councillors-speak-out-3138.html#comment-57871 Jennie Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:44:38 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=3138#comment-57871 "SNP councillor Jahangir Hanif took his children to see him firing off an AK-47, whilst Conservative councillor Philip Thomas has been praising a meat cleaver and two machetes as being “cool”." Good. If only we could see some similar sense from members of our own party. “SNP councillor Jahangir Hanif took his children to see him firing off an AK-47, whilst Conservative councillor Philip Thomas has been praising a meat cleaver and two machetes as being “cool”.”

Good. If only we could see some similar sense from members of our own party.

]]> By: Hywel Morgan http://www.libdemvoice.org/guns-and-knives-councillors-speak-out-3138.html#comment-57786 Hywel Morgan Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:20:58 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=3138#comment-57786 I heard about the SNP councillor case. Did he actually break any laws by doing what he did? If not what is the problem. If I was a keen sports shooter (something which is legal in the UK AIUI even for children) and went to America and took my kids to a shooting range they could no doubt legally shoot using an AK-47, Mac-10 and probably and anti-tank gun. Would that disqualify me from being a councillor? I heard about the SNP councillor case. Did he actually break any laws by doing what he did? If not what is the problem.

If I was a keen sports shooter (something which is legal in the UK AIUI even for children) and went to America and took my kids to a shooting range they could no doubt legally shoot using an AK-47, Mac-10 and probably and anti-tank gun. Would that disqualify me from being a councillor?

]]> By: Julian H http://www.libdemvoice.org/guns-and-knives-councillors-speak-out-3138.html#comment-57784 Julian H Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:17:29 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=3138#comment-57784 I don't consider the Tory to have done anything wrong whatsoever (aside, perhaps, from displaying political naivety). If the SNP councillor was just firing a gun as a hobby then, equally, he is not guilty of anything. The doubts over his case, however, are the suspicious circumstances - "blacked out vehicles" and unofficial "military-style camps" near a war zone. I don’t consider the Tory to have done anything wrong whatsoever (aside, perhaps, from displaying political naivety). If the SNP councillor was just firing a gun as a hobby then, equally, he is not guilty of anything. The doubts over his case, however, are the suspicious circumstances – “blacked out vehicles” and unofficial “military-style camps” near a war zone.

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