Is this America’s future?
Owners of illegal firearms will have 60 days to surrender their weapons without facing legal action, a House extraordinary committee scrutinising a gun control bill said yesterday.
The panel has approved the government-sponsored bill giving a 60-day amnesty to people who agree to return illegal weapons and fireworks to the state, said panel chairman Gen Rattana Chalermsanyakorn.
Failure to hand over illegal weapons within the 60-day period is an offence punishable by a 10-year jail term and a 20,000-baht fine under the bill, which has already passed its first reading in the lower house.
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He denied any link between the push for the bill’s passage and the government’s policy to ban sales and possession of firearms within six years.
September 11th, 2003 at 8:26 pm
From my cold, dead fingers.
September 12th, 2003 at 9:00 am
Well one can always hope that all of the ILLEGAL guns in this country may one day be collected. I am not sure why anyone would object to that who owns LEGAL guns. http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/flash-01.php
September 12th, 2003 at 9:06 am
The problem with gun laws is they’re arbitrary and there’s too many. It is entirely possible that someone could have an illegal gun due to a superficial feature and not know it.
And surely you know that bowling for columbine has been severely discredited: http://www.bowlingfortruth.com
September 12th, 2003 at 9:14 am
Barry you can hope all you want but if someone has an illegal gun, they are by definition a criminal. Do you think they are going to one day realize they have been wrong all this time and just hand their weapons over to the good guys? If not how will they be collected?
Can you name for me one state or country where the removal or ban of firearms has made it a safer place to live? A place where immigrants from other parts of the world aspire to leave their home countries for? I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way. I am just curious.
September 15th, 2003 at 9:57 am
Don’t worry about Thailand. A one hundred Baht bribe to the cops will let them keep their guns…