They are waking up in Britain (too late?)

[Rokyudai]

From the looks of that picture...maybe we ought to have a National Sharpee Registration Database. That way, when something bad happens, we can trace the crime back to the one who owns the sharpee, since he is obviously responsible for what was written with it.... (sarcasm)

[lawrnk]

From the looks of that picture...maybe we ought to have a National Sharpee Registration Database. That way, when something bad happens, we can trace the crime back to the one who owns the sharpee, since he is obviously responsible for what was written with it.... (sarcasm)

Eh, or register islamists?

[lunchbox]

but that would be racist
and we cant do that

[bdickens]

Oh, yes, the religion of peace. The moderators can clamp down on this post if they wish, but the truth is the truth.

[lawrnk]

Oh, yes, the religion of peace. The moderators can clamp down on this post if they wish, but the truth is the truth.

I don't speak for the mods, but I think there is some latitude regardin islam here.

[lunchbox]

who likes those guys anyway
lol

[Keith B]

Let's keep discussion to the original topic of Britain and their weapons laws please.

[lunchbox]

does anyone even know what their law states
the thing i heard was you could own guns in a club and they were kept in a range that was secure and you go in shoot your gun then give it back and go home is that the case

[lawrnk]

Honestly, I know nothing about their law. Did you even see the article about the .22 round found on a british sidewalk?

[lunchbox]

Honestly, I know nothing about their law. Did you even see the article about the .22 round found on a british sidewalk?

no did they all freak out and call the queen

[israel67]

does anyone even know what their law states
the thing i heard was you could own guns in a club and they were kept in a range that was secure and you go in shoot your gun then give it back and go home is that the case

It is illegal to own a handgun in the UK. Full stop. This was because in 1996, Thomas Hamilton walked into a school in Dunblane carrying two (IIRC) handguns and murdered sixteen children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre

I think that Hamilton had a history of mental illness, which should probably have meant restrictions on nutjobs having access to firearms. Instead, Tony Blair's newly elected government passed the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, banning all handguns in the UK.

Idiots.

[israel67]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre

Here's another line on the story..

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/noto ... index.html

It beggars belief that anyone would want to harm five and six-year-old children, but the man was 'out there'. Tragic.

[Skiprr]

As someone else said: israel67, you will be welcomed in Texas with open arms.

And it looks like a strong semifinals at Roland Garros for the men. I'm picking Nadal to get by Djokovic, and to beat Roger, once again, for the title. I'm picking Ivanovic for the women's win.

On topic, tonight's email quip from John Farnam struck home:

3 June 08

The enforced demise of the UK's gun/weapon culture, engineered by paranoid politicians, has resulted in a never-ending epidemic of UDs among incompetently-trained British police:

A British newspaper has pointed out in a recent editorial that the "select few" British police officers who are actually armed, fire their weapons far more by accident than they ever have on purpose! UDs (even the few that are actually reported, because there are too many witnesses for them to be covered up) are rampant, and extremely embarrassing, within the all of the UK's police services, particularly in light of arrogant, and manifestly dishonest, proclamations that "training" provided to officers is "the best available."

The unhappy truth is, in the UK, the blind are leading the blind, as even the blind can plainly see!

Chronically UD-prone officers are routinely treated by police administrations the same way pedophile-priests are treated by the Catholic Church. "Solutions" to the problem range from (1) promotion, to (2) lateral transfer, to (3) comfortable retirement. Guilty parties are, of course, never remediated, much less disciplined, as such a thing would embarrass incompetent police administrators and mendacious politicians.

Thus, the "solution" virtually guarantees that the problem will never be meliorated. More to the point, it guarantees the UK's veritable army of "short-men-in-cheap-suits" will all keep their pathetic jobs!

Also curious is the fact that UDs among the precious-few non-police Brits who actually own guns legally is always identified as a "crime," and the hapless gun-owner is viciously denigrated, vilified, stripped of his rights, and prosecuted. Simultaneously, the same UDs, when committed by police officers, are always called "mistakes," and the officer involved is predictably the next chief of police!

[lawrnk]

does anyone even know what their law states
the thing i heard was you could own guns in a club and they were kept in a range that was secure and you go in shoot your gun then give it back and go home is that the case

It is illegal to own a handgun in the UK. Full stop. This was because in 1996, Thomas Hamilton walked into a school in Dunblane carrying two (IIRC) handguns and murdered sixteen children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre

I think that Hamilton had a history of mental illness, which should probably have meant restrictions on nutjobs having access to firearms. Instead, Tony Blair's newly elected government passed the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, banning all handguns in the UK.

Idiots.

I remember that. Mostly 5 year olds. So sad.

[lunchbox]

i heard a story about how LEO wont go out at night in london just cuz they can be targeted just like everyone else whey are in danger too