Gun Culture

Thursday, October 28, 2004

A Telegraph Reader Responds

Further to The Telegraph Supports Home Defence, Steve Devereux of the Self Defence Network has written to the Sunday Telegraph to remind them that the right of self defence means little without access to the tools of self defence - and to remind them and the readership of the origins of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Sir,

Your leader “The State’s First Duty” was right on the mark.  We are denied
the right to self defence and as a direct result suffer more criminal
violence.  However the leader left out the second crucial element; having
the means of self defence, without which the right cannot be properly
exercised.

The constitutional right of the English to bear arms for self defence is
not well known about generally, but it does exist as part of the Bill of
Rights and in Common Law.  Up to 1968, a firearm certificate could be
obtained to get a pistol for self defence.  In 1968, the Home Office,
without any public debate or even notification, secretly wrote to all UK
police forces and said that self defence was no longer an acceptable reason
to grant a firearm certificate.  Non lethal irritant sprays, freely
available in mainland Europe and the USA are prohibited weapons in the UK
with a 5 year jail sentence for possession.  Swordsticks were banned after
one old man used one against his attacker - the fact that one had been
justifiably used in self defence was sufficient for our politicians to ban
them.  None of this prevents criminals having and using firearms, knives,
coshes or any other weapon, it just stacks the odds against the citizen who
clearly cannot be trusted with anything potentially dangerous.

I hope the Telegraph can start to lead an honest debate into this.  For too
long the public has been deceived into believing that disarming them
without disarming criminals will somehow make them safer.  Nowhere in the
world have gun laws ever reduced criminal violence and nowhere in the world
has allowing honest citizens to be armed increased criminal violence.

Yours sincerely
Steve Devereux.

Well done Steve, I hope the Sunday Telegraph have the balls to print it!

The Dictatorship

The following was sent to Steve Black from well known patriot Bob Lomas.  It’s quite a long piece, but a worthwhile read.  In this mini essay you see how we have been betrayed by treasonous politicians and let down by a Monarch who has either been poorly advised or threatened into complicity.  We see how our country has been given away to a foreign power, how our ancient and wonderful legal system has been systematically picked apart in favour of Code Napolean and how the people of the UK have had their rights taken from them.

THE DICTATORSHIP

Under British law we can do virtually anything we wish providing there is no law against it.

In Europe you can only do what the law says you can.

In the United Kingdom the state is the servant of the people.

In Europe the people are subjects of the state.

In the United Kingdom we have inalienable common law rights that the state cannot deny us or take away from us.

In Europe rights are awarded by the state and can be withdrawn at the state’s discretion.

In the United Kingdom the people control the state, for the sovereignty rests with the people.

In Europe the state controls the people for it is the state which is sovereign.

In the United Kingdom we do not have a state police force, we have county police forces accountable to the Crown which represents the people.

In Europe they have state police forces whose job it is to enforce state policy.

The Anglo-Saxon state system of the United Kingdom, backed and upheld by a national constitution that has evolved over a thousand years, is the absolute antithesis of the European system. As an example of this totally opposed way of thinking one only has to look at the first draft of the EU constitution in which it says,” everyone is entitled to compulsory education”. What advancement could possibly be gained for the British people by abandoning a thousand years of common sense development and embracing the doctrines of people that are by comparison in the infancy of democratic development?

There can be absolutely no doubt whatsoever that there never was, is not, nor could there ever be, any advantage or gain to be made for the British people from the United Kingdom being a member of the European Union of the Regions, not strategically, culturally or economically. It is a matter of chalk and cheese, the mixture of which defies the palate of all, and enforced ingestion results in nausea.

So why is the United Kingdom a member of the European Union? A membership that has cost us billions of pounds, destroyed our industries, in particular our steel, coal. farming, fishing and vehicle manufacturing industries. A membership that has caused the premature deaths of hard working farmers and destroyed their families, and made honest traders common criminals for refusing to bend the knee to a foreign political dictatorship. A membership that has destroyed the social structure of our small, and in particular rural, communities by making it impossible for small businesses, local shops and post offices, garages and public houses to survive. And all for no gain or advantage that anyone has been able to realistically or honestly prove.

Continue reading The Dictatorship...

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

The Crazy World of “Reasonable Force”

Next time your MP tells you there is no need for the laws on self-defence need no revision or that the term “reasonable force” is adequate to protect homeowners or citizens against attack, perhaps a punch on the nose and ask him if he thinks that “reasonable”?  Or not.

As widely reported yesterday a Mr Faulkener will suffer no further action after the CPS decided that he acted in ‘Legitimate Defence’ when he fired his shotgun at a burglar.  I couldn’t agree more, however as sure as Tony Blair is a lying tosser - if the burglar had suffered more damage than a couple of pellets he would have been up before the beak quick smart.  Just ask Tony Martin.

It does not mean that anyone using violence against an intruder is above the law and would not face prosecution.

said a spokesman from Derby CPS.  Well it bloody should.
A clear majority of non-muesli munchers support the proposition that home invaders choose to put themselves outside the law and should not expect the protection of the law if they are harmed during the execution of their crime.  It is from obvious truths like this that we first derived the Common Law, which our law makers and legal system hate so much.
Predictably muesli munchers say things like

We would not condone people taking the law into their own hands

So sayeth Victim Support spokesman Andrew Buckingham, one would think he would know better.
The law is ours, it remains a Common Law duty to preserve the Queens Peace.  It remains a Common Law duty to assist in the detention of criminals and to prevent crimes being commisioned.  When dicks like Mr Buckingham trot out that trite phrase it inevitably brings to mind ideas of vigiliantism, where what we are really talking about in these instances is our moral duty and fundamental right to defend our person and property.
When we get crap like

Police chiefs have urged householders not to confront intruders, but to call 999 and lock themselves in safely until help arrives.

We don’t believe in vigilantism or excess violence

we get the green light for burglars to break in whether there is someone home or not.  Safe in the knowledge that the householders will cower in their rooms until the bad man goes away, and knowing that the CPS will fall over themselves to prosecute anyone who dares to break their monopoly.  Safe to carry out their profession knowing that not only will the police not bother their arses to get to the scene before they are long gone, secure knowing that there is effectively zero chance of them being caught, happy in the knowledge that even if they are caught they can expect a laughable sentence.
Chief Supt Ian Johnston says

If the intruder steals some of your property, that’s far better than someone getting killed.

Er no, not quite.  Better than the householder being hurt, but should the burglar be killed rather than your hard earned taken then that’s fine by me.
The trouble is to the government and political police chiefs the life of a burglar is as important (some would say more) than that of an honest hard working householder.
That is just plain wrong.

Monday, October 25, 2004

Telegraph Supports Home Defence

The Sunday Telegraph today launches a campaign for the law to be changed to give householders the right to use whatever force is necessary against intruders.

‘People must be given the right to defend themselves in their own homes’

Good stuff, but the Telegraph aren’t exactly much cop at this campaining lark.  Remember the ‘Free Country’ campaign?  No?  My point exactly.  The ‘Free Country’ campaign consisted of putting a picture of a pair of handcuffs and the Free Country Campaign strap line against a story which involved loss of liberty.  This is fine as far as it goes but these were just stories that everyone else was running also, no attempt to dig deeper, no expose of government policy or attempting to undermine Mad Dog Blunkett by digging up dirt.

In the article the paper makes the point that ‘reasonable force’ means precisely nowt, yet the Home Office and Government continue to resist any calls for change to assume innocence of the householder defending his home.  The campaign does not mention any desire to allow the tools of self defence that are currently outlawed by Home Office policy, perhaps this is understandable - one step at a time.

See also the opinion piece The State’s First Duty

There is no more fundamental right than that of individuals to protect themselves, their families and their homes from criminals who break in and attempt to steal their property. It is the most basic one which government exists to protect - and when it fails to protect it, government neglects its most elementary duty.

Fine words, now let’s see some action!

Friday, October 22, 2004

Mouse Hunting

No I haven’t made a typo, that really does say mouse hunting not moose hunting.
I’m loving this story about a dumbass who manages to shoot his girlfriend whilst trying to gun down a mouse.

A US man who tried to shoot a mouse accidentally shot his girlfriend in the arm instead.

Donald Rugg, 43, spotted the mouse in his home in Confluence, Pennsylvania, and took a shot at it with his handgun.

But he missed the mouse and hit his girlfriend Cathy Jo Harris, 35, who had walked into the bullet’s path, reports the Tribune Review.

Anyone able to suggest a good calibre for mouse shooting?

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Gun Culture Strikes

Here we go again.  Gun crime is up.  A bit.  Cue government ministers trying to have it both ways.  On one side of their faces

“Home Secretary David Blunkett called for concerted action to tackle “unacceptable” levels of gun crime”

and on the other

“The Home Office claims there is anecdotal evidence that tough anti-gun measures, including a mandatory minimum five year prison for gun possession is helping police and communities tackle illegal guns.”

What lies behind this increase?

“a rise of 35 per cent in the use of replica firearms”

those damned ‘not guns’ are at it again!
Not surprisingly then Mad Dog says

“77% of all gun crime ends up with no-one being hurt”

If possession of a replica is the cause of the recorded crime you’re only going to get hurt if chummy twonks you over the head with it.
But wait, could there be another reason for this leap in recorded crime?
Maybe so.

“The Home Office said the rise in violent crime recorded by police was down to more people being willing to report their experiences, and more “low-level thuggery” being recorded as crimes.”

Yeah. Right ho.  Like we’ve never heard that one before.  It is in any case cobblers, if anything people are less likely to report crimes because they know that it is a waste of time.
Still at least it is an improvement on

“Home Office officials have said earlier increases were due to there being record numbers of police officers to register crimes.”

Problem solved then.  Just get rid of all the police officers and then there will be no crime.  Job done.  Doubleplusgood.

Looking at the real gun crime (you know - that which involves actual guns) it is easy to see what the cause and increase is due to.  According to Notts Police the recent rises in gun usage by criminals is because following the removal of a number of drug dealers to prison, so-called ‘Yardies’ moved in to claim the vacant territory.  These Jamaican gangsters have no scruples or inhibitions when it comes to using firearms to protect ‘their turf’ and ready access to automatic firearms.  This lead local scrotes to obtain their own firearms in order to defend themselves and compete with the incomers.
Take a look at the victims and perpetrators of shootings in Nottingham and elsewhere and you will notice a common theme.  They all are from the community in which the ‘Yardy’ move in.  Of course if a police official were to say this he would be howled down and sacked for being ‘racist’.  Denial of the truth for PC reasons will not make the problem go away.

Of course you could always legalise hard drugs and remove the source of income for these thugs……

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Charlie Gets Bustard!

Apparently the Great Bustards on Salisbury Plain have fallen fowl (oh dear) to Mr Foxy Woxy.  Two of the birds have been killed within a month of release, which the organisation responsible for reintroduction say is a lower mortality rate than they expected.
The interesting part of this story is that

Dave Waters, who heads the project, said the two victims were “typical fox kills”, their heads bitten off with no effort made to eat the carcasses.

No! Say it’s not so!
Surely we all know that foxes only kill for food, and that even then it is the weak and dying animals they take?
What’s that you say?  LACS are full of shit?  Well I never.

FCC 12th Annual Report

Can’t sleep?
Then I recommend the 12th Annual Report of the FCC now available here (55 pages worth of pdf)
There are high points though

1.4 The opinions and views expressed in this report are rarely
unanimous. It should be noted that dissenting voices, particularly that
of the Gun Control Network, are not always recorded in the text of the
report.

For most of the points in the report there is a mention of opposition by the Gun Control Nutters to a sensible position, so the mind boggles somewhat at just what form this dissent takes.  Perhaps the mad witch bangs on the table and rants about how evil toy guns are at every turn.

Also worth a read is some of the previous recommendations of the FCC.  A scan through those may challenge the conventional wisdom that the FCC are a level headed committee (mad witch excempted!).

10.41 The prohibition on full-bore pump-action rifles in the Firearms
(Amendment) Act 1988 should be retained. [Paragraph 15.14]
Firearms Review

Why?  What is the justification for this?  Were recent shootings carried out with pump action rifles perhaps?  Thought not.

11.2 The FCC recommends the Government should take steps to
prohibit certain powerful (materiel destruction) rifles, based on their
muzzle energy and not by name. Any prohibition should make
exceptions for certain rifles as indicated at paragraph 2.6 herein.
[Paragraphs 2.4-2.9].
Legislation

Again, what is the public safety benefit?

11.3 The FCC recommends that the Government should seek to ban
those revolvers which have wrist braces or similar extensions to the
pistol grip. It is further suggested that such a ban might be extended to
all those revolver guns without a permanently attached shoulder stock

Public safety benefit of zero again.

11.41 Where the police have been called to an incident, which
involved the misuse of an air weapon, the FCC recommends that the
forfeiture of the weapon should be considered irrespective of whether
criminal proceedings are instituted. [Paragraph 9.22].

Wow.  What a doozer.  So regardless of the validity of any complaint the plod could walk away with your airgun?
There is a world of difference between some thug smashing windows with a knackered old springer and a hunter taking bunnies with a PCP, yet this suggestion would not protect the hunter from a malicious bunny hugger calling in a complaint and a gun grabbing copper confiscating the airgun.

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

ASA Christian Aid Update

Received another missive from the ASA t’other day.
This one, seems to take a slightly different tack to previous communique.  Extract “we have considered your complaint and we shall take it up with the advertisers”.  Interesting.
Could the investigations department have found that the claims of the evils of free trade are in fact the side blows of un-free trade as we said in the intial complaint?
Nah, that would mean an outbreak of common sense.

Knives, knives, knives

Mad Dog Blunkett is banging on about his “Knife Culture” again, so I thought it a good time to share with you a few of my latest aquisitions!
For all images, click for a bigger pic.
Firstly the North Star from Bark River Knife & Tool

This wee beastie is a Bushcraft knife and so is designed to be an all-rounder with the strength to cut wood by the method known a battoning (twatting the back of your knife with a bit of wood!).

The handle is green and black linen micarta

North Star Logo

Next up is the Spyderco Salsa.

and opened

The large hole is a Spyderco feature and facilitates the one handed opening of the blade.  The ridge you can see just above the hole is the Spyderco Cobra Hood and gives a good area for thumb grip.  The blade features a large choil for grip.

The final blade today is another Spyderco.  This time the Jester.  The Jasper is wee dinky blade designed for attaching to a key ring, or just dropping in your pocket for those ‘just-in-case’ moments.  The coin in the image is a 10p bit to give you an idea of just how dinky this piece is.  Don’t let the size fool you though, this is a seriously sharp blade and very much a usable blade.

and opened

Lastly a comparison shot between Jester and Salsa

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Slacker

Oo-er.  A whole week since my last post.
Must do better.  See me after class.
It isn’t even as if there hasn’t been a number of worthwhile topics in the last week or so.
Of particular annoyance and righteous indignation are the comments from Racist-in-chief Trevor Philips from the CRE regarding country dwellers practicising “passive aparheid”.  No better way of ensuring the continuance of a so-called Commission for Racial Equality than to invent instances of racism up hill and down vale.  The CRE is institutionally racist and should abolish itself forthwith.
Then of course the instance of grave desicration of a relative of a guinea pig farmer.  Terrorism on our home soil.  What is Trust Me Tony doing about it?  Yadda of course.  Too busy strutting around in Africa to worry about minor details like domestic terrorism.
Yup, plenty to blog about.
Except I couldn’t be arsed.  First voter apathy, now blogger apathy?
Normal service will be resumed soon no doubt!

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Oh deer, mind how you cross the road

Bambi in the news again, this time for not obeying the Green Cross Code.
Deer related road accidents accounted for 10 human deaths and 250 injuries last year, 50,000 Bambi and pals are thought to have been killed or injured in the same period.  That’s a lot of Bambi burgers.
Not mentioned in this article is one of the means of reducing this number - reducing deer populations through encouraging stalking.  No doubt if population reduction was mooted we would be treated to some old shite about deer contraception or if the bunny huggers could bear to authorise any kind of cull we would be talking about “trained marksmen” instead of sportsmen who would relish the task - and the meat!

Conker Bonkers

Mr Free Market reported earlier in the week how a school was in the news for requiring children to wear goggles when engaged in the nobel sport of conkers.
Today emerges a new story which takes conker bonkers to a new level.  Yet another Cumbrian school has banned conkers altogether, not for flying debris or the very real danger of string entanglement not even for the risk of sore toes in the event of “stamps”. 
For nut allergy!

Children were allowed to play conkers before someone realised they could spark off nut allergies

Bollocks.

Well no, they were a little more polite than that, but not so far away.
Story as reported in The News & Star

Tories try to steal UKIP thunder

Given the fear by UKIP’s resolution to stand against any candidate regardless of their EUsceptic stance, the Conservative Party are making some rather EUsceptic noises of their own.  We get the scare stories of a vote for UKIP ensuring a federalist government.  I hope people have seen enough rhetoric from the Cons to realise that this is just hot air and that the party is EU federalist to it’s very core.

>From the Conservative Party manifesto, 1983

“We shall continue both to oppose petty acts of Brussels bureaucracy and to
seek the removal of unnecessary restrictions on the free movement of goods
and services between member states, with proper safeguards to guarantee fair
competition. “

>From the Conservative Party manifesto 1987

“Being good Europeans does not prevent us from standing up for British
interests...We will continue to work for strict controls on the Community
Budget......We will also continue to work with our European partners to
defend our own trading interests and press for freer trade among all
nations......while safeguarding our essential national interests”

>From the Conservative Party manifesto 1992

“We will resist Commission initiatives which run counter to the principle
that issues should be dealt with on a national basis wherever possible....We
will insist on more effective control over Community spending and will
resist pressure to extend Community competence to new areas.”

>From the Conservative Party manifesto 1997

“The government has a positive vision for the European Union as a
partnership of nations. We want to be in Europe but not run by Europe”

>From the Conservative Party manifesto 2001

“The guiding principle of Conservative policy towards the European Union is
to be in Europe, but not run by Europe.”

Michael Howard Conference speech, 2004

“The Tories would not hamper EU countries wanting to integrate so long as
Britain was allowed to “bring powers back from Brussels”, getting out of the
social chapter and common fisheries policy.”

Which just goes to prove that you can’t trust the Tories on Europe.

Best etc,

Mark Croucher
UKIP National Press Officer

Let’s have no more of this nonsense that the Tories will resist further integration, that they will renegotiate treaties.  It will not happen.

Monday, October 04, 2004

Bambi Burgers the Noo?

I thought Mr Free Market would have carried this one!
As reported in both The Left Wing Commie Bastard and in Jimmy On Sunday (anyone I haven’t offended yet?), Jimmy schoolbrats are to have the option of feasting on Bambi Burgers.
Seems an excellent idea to me, wild venison is a superb meat.  Full of flavour, free range, lean and all those other things the health Nazi’s say kids should be eating.

Fergus Ewing, a Highland MSP, said: “Venison burgers are the alternative to the Big Mac, and I would rather Scottish kids eat the food of the McDonalds than the food from McDonald’s.”

Nice soundbite Fergus.

Some critics of the deer-stalking industry claim there will be a “squeamishness” factor among children encouraged to eat venison shot by stalkers and gamekeepers.

Cobblers.  Boy brats will lap it up, if only to upset girly girlies.
Overall a cracking idea, now just sit back and wait for some kind of food scare involving venison to cock it up.