HW: Hawkwind in New Zealand

[M Holmes]

K Henderson writes:

> Is it just in America that we develop our public opinion (and in some
> cases our laws...or perhaps that should be 'many') based on the
> 'anecdotal' or 'extreme' event?

No. In the UK we banned anything bar BB pistols because one lunatic shot
sixteen kids in Scotland after a whole town ran a two decade campaign to
drive him crazy.

Of course we'd already pretty much banned self-defence with anything
other than harsh language a long time prior to that.

FoFP