From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:08:23 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Londinium
Message-ID: <845057044.19828.0@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
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> May be you knew this.  A few months back in the UK, some nut flipped
> and shot up a school full of kids, finishing up by shooting himself
> (sadly for the press, his second cousin once removed, did not have an
> internet account).  Much media teeth gnashing about hand guns, and
> tighter gun laws ensued.  (The guy had a gun license, something which
> is needed to legally own a gun in the UK.)

Yeah, and we`re looking at more fucked up laws possibly completely 
banning handguns over here.
 
> The Schoolyard Slaughter game is I think a joke by someone with a
> funny sense of humor, playing on this incident.

Actually the PD library distributing the game said it was produced 
and released some months before the incident in Dunblane, but I can`t 
verify whether they were just covering themselves or if this is the 
truth, whatever the case, it is irrelevant, the game will probably be 
removed from circulation now for no legitimate reason other than a 
few nutters on a mission against guns happen not to like it.

 
 

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