Time: Mon Apr 14 05:51:10 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA07601; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:51:41 -0700 (MST) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA24967; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:51:37 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 05:47:28 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: SNET: Chinese melt 15,000 guns (fwd) <snip> > >Hi! > >Just a little info culled from news reports about China; there was a lot >of other human rights info, which certainly confirms recent postings here >that said that gun confiscation is only part of a much larger problem. To >save bandwidth, am just posting the gun confiscation stuff. If anybody's >also interested in the UN Human Rights Commission resolution (which will >fail), the suit against three major U.S. retailers for mislabelling as >"Made in Hong Kong" clothes that were actually made in China (a suit which >could bring in millions for the U.S. government, yet the government has >declined to join the case), and/or the latest on an imprisoned Chinese >dissident, please contact me offline, and will send that info along to >you. > >An AP story from 4/12 reports that more than 15,000 firearms were melted >down at a steel factory in Beijing. The guns were confiscated under a >10/96 law that makes gun possession illegal. This law was passed as part >of an "anti- crime" drive that initially began last April. > >The AP story whitewashes the human cost of this "anti-crime" initiative >by saying that the law provides "possible jail sentences for offenders" >but keeping silent on the alternative and widely used punishment, which is >death. According to AP and Reuters news reports from a year ago, even >before the new Chinese gun confiscation law, tens of thousands of Chinese, >including store owners who had built flimsy homemade firearms to protect >themselves from thugs, have been convicted of the "crime" of gun ownership >and have then been immediately taken away and shot. > <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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