Gun Culture

Friday, August 10, 2007

Broken Covenant

The Royal British Legion believes that the service our wounded servicemen receive is inadequate. 
I agree.
Do you?  Click the image to sign up.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Help for Heroes Charity Walk

Just a plug for a chap I know who is doing the Lyke Wake Walk (no idea what that is!) for sponsorship for the Help for Heroes appeal.
If you want to throw a couple of bob in the pot you can do so by visiting his Justgiving site

Thursday, May 08, 2008

No Such Thing As Society

I’m really pissed off with people (and when I say people I really mean communist twats like er, David Cameron) selectively quoting Lady Thatch (God Bless ‘er)

There’s no such thing as society

They take it to mean that the mean old bag doesn’t believe in looking after the vulnerable.  Bastards.
However let’s look at the quote in context:

“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.”

What could make more sense than that?

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

‘Live’ hand grenade found in woods

From The Local Rag

BOMB disposal experts had to be called in after a live hand grenade was discovered near woods in Cockermouth.

The device was found under a fallen tree near Horse Shoe Woods, Slatefell, on Monday afternoon by a walker.

It was the size of a tennis ball, blue in colour, with an orange clip. The pin had been removed but the device had not exploded. It is not known how the army training grenade came to be at the site but police believe it may have been there for some time.

The walker contacted police, who called in army bomb disposal experts to remove it.

Police say it is lucky nobody was hurt and are appealing for information about the origin of the device and how it came to be at the woods.

They have also advised anyone who finds a similar device not to touch it, move away from the area and contact the police immediately.

How exciting.  However…
“army training grenade “ suggests to me that this was nothing more than a pyrotechnic device, either designed to make a loud bang (blank shotgun cartridge type device) or emit a load of smoke.  I’m hardly an expert on training grenades mind.
Last time I was in those woods there were a fair few airsoft pellets around, I’m thinking this was probably one of those lads.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Sharuna Sagar - useless

Sharuna Sagar does the regional news for BBC NE & Cumbria and she is bastard shit at it.
I have never - NEVER seen a single bulletin she hasn’t made at least one cock up.  Whether it be a pronunciation or a good old fashioned stumble she never fails to drop a bollock.
Why does she still have a job?
OK so she’s easy on the eye and has a super pair of jubblies but these are not adequate qualifications for a news reader.  Qualifications include being able to read an autocue. FAIL.  Looking at the right camera once in a while. FAIL.
Being the first bird to read the news in a sari is not a free pass to unconditional employment.  I’m quite sure she is a lovely lass, but sweetie - news reading is not your forte.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Home Invasion?  Just call the police.

We all know the old story don’t we? 
Burglars are:
Just kids
Will run away if confronted
Blah blah

However if you push the collectivist ‘society will protect you’ arsehole ‘liberal’ wankers they will conceed that there are times when the householder needs a little help.  Not from a tool of self-defence such as a gun, a taser or a big bloody knife.  Oh no, you should call the police.  That’s what they’re there for, one shouldn’t ‘take the law into your own hands’.

From the Daily Mail and various rags:

Cowering upstairs with his partner and their two children as a gang of burglars wielding an axe emptied his living room, Mathew Sims wasted no time in calling 999.

But instead of the immediate response he expected, the police told him: “We’re too busy to help.”

Within minutes, the burglars drove off with a haul of stolen property.

When the seconds count, you can rely on the police to be there in minutes as the old saying goes.
Or not.

Officers only turned up at the family’s home three hours later.

A disgrace?  Absolutely.  The real disgrace is that this is hardly an isolated incident.  A further disgrace is that this was relegated to News In Brief in the Telegraph.  This should have been front page headline news.  Why not so?  Is it because it is no novelty?  Or could it perhaps be that our left wing biased media, yes even the Mail and Telegraph are establishment (i.e. socialist) leaning.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Russel Brand

Twat.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

UKIP Gains an MP

So UKIP gets it’s first MP.  Not how we’d like it, in an election, but we’ll take what we can.
Certainly it’s nice to finally have a figure in the lower house.  The coverage was beyond piss poor.  If this was a blue going red or t’other way around it would be headline news, not page 14 stuff.
Hopefully we won’t end up with egg on our faces with another Kilroy-Silk style character.  Certainly there will be people saying that he should now become party leader, which makes some sense but we can’t have a Johnny come lately jump in and take the top job, Tory party haven’t exactly enjoyed having him.  How much of that is down to his opposition to their socialist fedaral policies remains to be seen.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Fat Bloke Catches Fish

Tried my hand at fishing today.


Top picture is a wild brownie, second is a stocked brownie.  Both caught at New Mills Trout Farm using a Greys GRXi 9’6” 7/8 rod with a GRXi reel and a sinking line with a lure.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Silly Tossers

I was extremely dissapointed, though not terribly surprised, to find that some crusty old twats in UKIP have spat their dummy over Sean Gabb.
It seems Sean spoke at a southern regional conference and was well received, Sean was impressed by the attitude of many of the people he met.  It was even suggested that Sean stand for UKIP in the EU elections.  Sean wrote how this was inappropriate and listed some of the reasons why.  These included his position on the illegality of ‘hard’ drugs and indecent images of children.
So let’s just pause and consider this for a moment.  Sean ruled himself out of an association with UKIP partly because of the negative reaction in the media to his positions on some laws.
What happens now?  Crusty old twats are up in arms about Sean’s position on those laws.  Excuse me? Baking powder?  Jesus fucking H Christ.
You will struggle anywhere to get more than a bare handful of people who agree on absolutely every single point, this is especially true in political parties where one would think that some form of consensus would be possible.  So we need to be adult enough to get fucking over this.  Apparently this is not possible in UKIP.
I’m a UKIP member and will likely remain so despite my sympathy with the Libertarian Party (who also have had people spit their dummy over some issues like gun control), but sometimes I despair at the attitudes of some of the silly old fuckers.  Why do I stay?  In part because I know that this is true of all the parties and in part because I know that the Libertarian Party’s message is just too much to swallow in one bite for the UK voting public.

Why Would Anyone Vote Conservative?

Seriously.  What possible reason is there to vote Conservative?
Tax cuts?  Nope, ain’t gonna happen.  They’re going to follow Labour spending plans for at least four years.  What on Earth for?  For some money saving ideas they could do worse than to follow Sean Gabb’s plan for destroying the Enemy Class (trouble is most of the front bench look rather like the enemy class to me).  I’ll even give them a couple of starters.  Day 1.  Abolish the DTI.  Should save a few bob and would encourage trade.  Whilst doing this someone else can send a fax to the EU, which would read “Get bent mother fuckers”.  Memo to Treasury: Stop paying the subs to the EU.  Phew that was a busy day.  Day two.  Fax to the UN, no more subs for you bastards either.  Day 3.  P45s to all the hundreds of thousands employed in pointless bullshit civil service ‘jobs’ created by Labour in the past 10 years.  Day 4, sell off the BBC to the highest bidder.
Have the rest of the week off lads.
The EU constitution.  Usual Conservative bollocks involving sounding EU-sceptic but actually being very pro-EU thank you very much.  They must be loving this.  They are able to sound anti-federal by demanding a referendum (that they know they won’t get) but will they repeal the constiution if the win?  Will they bollocks.
‘Dave’ wants corporate bonuses to be based on some social responsibility bullshit.  Has he lost his mind or did the poncy fat faced tosser never have one in the first place?  Exactly the sort of policy one would expect to read in Socialist Worker not coming from the mouth of a ‘Conservative’.
Yet in the polls the ‘Conservative’ Party is leading, how?  They propose to be almost exactly the same as the current shower of shit.
Amazing.

Monday, March 10, 2008

So true….

Just noticed this over at BCUK

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Defensive Gun Usage by Nurse With A Gun

You rarely hear reports of a gun used defensively where no shots are fired in the US press, yet they happen and never appear on the stats.
Here’s a story via Kim of a guy who’s CCW saved him and his daughter from at least a mugging and who knows what.
Too long to reproduce it all but a few snippets:

I became vaguely aware of two scruffy young men behind us as I stopped to look for traffic in preparation of entering the parking lot. They stayed behind us, rather than coming alongside.

I handed Little Darling her bag and took her hand as we began to negotiate the maze of parked automobiles. I glanced back and saw that the two young men had spread apart, one on either side of us and to the rear. That is when I felt it. They had matched my stride and were circling me. Like an antelope, I knew I was being stalked by jackals, only I did not know why. Time was accelerating at head pounding speed, and Little Darling, blissfully unaware, was along for the ride.

I saw our vehicle and began to approach it, but I wanted to be certain. I walked past, and cut between two unoccupied SUVs, grabbing a shopping cart to block the path from my front. The man on my right turned towards me and cursed as he saw his path was blocked by the cart jammed between the two vehicles sideways. I spun and drew my pistol from it’s holster, keeping it at low ready, facing off the other young man who was quickly approaching me from behind. My thumb had already snicked off the safety and Little Darling, confused, peered from behind me.

It seemed an eternity looking into the menacing, sneering face of the hoodlum who had began his approach from my rear. He sized up the man with the gun, a little girl behind him. I heard nothing to my rear. Not a word was spoken. Then “God damned mother fucker.......” he snarled as he sauntered away.

I shuddered as I told the officer my story. I did not know why I was being herded and stalked, but I explained that I knew what was happening and felt it deep in my bones. I had been prey. I told him I had drawn my weapon. He asked if I was still armed, and I said yes. “Good,” he replied.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Tony Singh - No Charges

Good news is that Tony Singh has no charges to answer following his succesful self-defence against know scum bag Liam Kilroe’s attack.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is determined to ensure that those who use reasonable force in defending themselves will enjoy the full protection of the law - they will not be prosecuted.

The trouble is, John Dilworth, assistant district Crown prosecutor for South West Lancashire, we don’t believe you.  Mr Singh will not face charges, but we are not at all reassured that this will be the case in other areas of the country.  Or what if Mr Singh had been carrying a 3in folding knife (as he is perfectly entitled to do) and had killed chummy with that?  The burden of proof would then have been that his reason for carrying the blade was ‘cutting stuff’ and not self-defence (a knife is a particularly shitty self defence tool).  What if chummy hadn’t got a knife and Mr Singh killed him with something that came to hand (so called instant arming)?  Mr Singh’s case was especially clear cut, life is not always so black and white.

Gun Culture Author Owns Guns?  Who’d have thought it?

A wee article regarding a Conservative’s vist to a gun club somehow becomes have a pop at Gun Culture.  I’m not quite sure how, doesn’t matter.
A commenter to the article says

I suspect this guy owns guns, (http://www.gunculture.net) and the thought of that is truly terrifying.

I think the Met should sign this person up for their astounding powers of perception and insight.  Gun Culture bloke might own guns?  Fancy that.
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/the_happy_dance/
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/two_new_guns/
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/pump_it_up/
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/red_dotted_ruger/
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/two_of_my_favourite_things/
How did this person come by their suspicions?  It’s a mystery to me.
Yet my owning guns shouldn’t be truly terrifying to anyone, I’ve been (rigorously!) police checked, my guns are used for sporting and vermin control purposes and are secure at all times - what’s terrifying about that exactly?  My guns will never be used for nefarious purposes so long as they are owned by me.  Fact.
Sure I’d like for self defence to be a ‘good reason’ for owning a gun, this doesn’t mean I’m walking around town with a sawn off under my trench coat.  To make such a leap in thinking is typical of the left wing.

Anti gun and anti right wing? Well of course, what sensible and normal person would not be?

A sensible and normal person who doesn’t think that they and their ilk know best how everyone should run their life.  A sensible and normal person who understands that the front line in taking care of yourself and your family is yourself and not the state.