Catapults
Sir,—Perhaps the Minister of Police is technically correct in considering a “toy” catapult an inoffensive weapon. It is a moot point. However, it seems to me that a “toy” with the reported accuracy and force of this catapult is at least a potential danger. It is perhaps unfair to expect parents to foresee this. It does not necessarily follow that because “there have been no reported incidents of their causing injury in the five years in which they have been imported” there have been no injuries. It might not occur to parents that anyone other than their own child was to blame for such an incident, an understandable attitude. After all, a catapult has been standard weaponry in small boys’ armoury for many decades. However, surely a home-made weapon, of dubiot accuracy and force (and limited durability), is not to be compared with a precisionmanufactured good-quality weapon. Must a child lose an eye before something will be done about this? —Yours, etc.,
(Miss) J. M. SHIELS. September 11, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31783, 13 September 1968, Page 14
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