Though not perhaps quite in the way you’d expect. 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”.
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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 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?
“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.