After the Dunblane massacre in 1996, the British government announced that there would be an inquiry, and The Cullens Report gave it’s findings in the same year. Following this, new legislation was passed to limit the ownership of guns. This was in 1996. Is anyone suggesting the then Prime Minister, John Major, should have been given The Nobel Peace Prize for his swift response to the terrible event?
There has been ample evidence over the whole world for many years of the awful mass shootings that can arise from poor control of the ownership of guns. Governments should have acted long ago to prevent wide ownership of guns. That they have not done so in so many cases is a terrible blot on today’s world.
No one has any right to ‘call others out’ for holding legitimate opinions. It is not the right of others to behave arrogantly by asserting that theirs is the only acceptable view. I have often observed this phenomenon on Gransnet, particularly on the political threads. It is sad that some people think they have the right to ‘call others out’, clearly these people do not believe that others have any right to a view, unless it matches their own. I have news for them, other people are just as entitled to hold a view as themselves, even if they disagree with that view.
Is there anyone who still thinks that Israel's actions in Gaza are justifiable?