OFF: Ted Nugent - this ones for Mike

[Paul Mather]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, M Holmes wrote:

=> Unsurprisingly, after the Dunblane gun ban in the UK, gun crimes
=> increased after the ban. The Home Office has since denied that the
=> reason for the ban was to reduce gun crime, though it didn't tell us
=> what the point of the ban could possibly otherwise be.

You mean you haven't figured it out, yet?  The Home Office enacted the
ban because it figured the off-topic traffic was a wee bit on the low
side on BOC-L.  They reckoned that a gun ban was guaranteed to generate
a lot of useless, waste-of-bandwidth threads and postings that never
amount to anything new or interesting (just like this one).

I think it has worked admirably!

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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