Gun Culture

Friday, December 17, 2004

Dumb Assed Motorist

From Fleet News Net comes this story of a foolish fellow who hasn’t heard of digital speed cameras.

A FLEET driver clocked up more than 30 points on his driving licence in one week as he travelled to and from work.

The driver passed a speed camera in roadworks at more than the 40mph limit and, because it didn’t flash, thought it wasn’t working. He repeated the journey at least once a day for a full week before penalty notices started arriving.

His fleet manager, who asked not to be named, said: ‘He is appealing against the points because he thought cameras are supposed to flash. But it was a digital camera and caught him every time he sped past it.’

Good luck with that appeal dumbo.

Thursday, December 16, 2004

XBox Live

Just sorted XBox Live.
That’s me not going to see the light of day ever again then!
Currently being beaten to a pulp by 8 year olds across the globe at Halo 2 and shot by same in Call of Duty - Their Finest Hour.  Favourite game type is ‘Capture the Flag’.

If you are also a Sad Bastard and you see me online, say hello!

Update
Mike from One Dumb Brit points out that I really should have told you my Gamertag thingy if you are to say hello.  It is, as those mind readers out there will already know, Gun Culture.

Whatever happened to….

..The Likely Tories?

In my youth I was different from others.  When you are in your teens it is The Done Thing to be left wing, if you aren’t you keep it quiet.  I knew from an early age I was different and I couldn’t live a lie.
Coming out to your friends and family as a Blue was traumatic, abuse and shame part of the package.  Yet I stuck by my beliefs.  It’s true and I’m blue - get over it!  I’m the only tory in the village etc.

Yet things changed.  My beloved Mrs T was betrayed into signing up for more EU.  Betrayed again by Tarzan, Clarke, stalking horse Redwood and of course the Grey Man.  The day Mrs T was forced out of 10 was a sad day and the end of an era, and the end of the Tory Party I thought I knew.

The Grey Man’s smug smile as he forced through Maastricht will live with me forever, how he could sit there and grin his strange grin when selling (or rather giving away with a fat dowry) our country is beyond my simple comprehension.

..and still there was hope.  I hoped that the real party would re-establish itself.  I hoped that the pro-independence party would reassert itself, independence of country and of the individual.  Even as I joined and became active in a rival party (no prizes for guessing) there was hope that they would come to their senses.

Now that hope is surely dead.

Yup.  ID cards, the very manifestation of Statist oppresion.  The idea has popped its ugly head up in virtually every government of any colour since they were abolished.  This comes as no surprise, the Home Office loves the idea and you can be sure that one of the first ‘ideas’ to hit any Home Secretary’s desk in face of any minor crisis is the ID card.  No matter that they are useless against real criminals or terrorists.  No matter that fakes will be available within days of the format being formalised.  No matter that these horrible items will make it actually easier for fraudsters to ply their trade - after all if you have an official ID card, you must be who you say you are right?  This insideous tickets of slavery are generally recognised for what they are and die a quiet death.

In announcing support for these tools of the State of Oppression the Tory Party have announced their death as surely as if they had placed an obituary in The Telegraph.

Now even if Howard were to announce immediate withdrawal from the EU and reinstatement of the Bill of Rights I would not sully myself by voting for the grubby bastard’s minion of Statism.

Bye bye Blunkett

So Mad Dog ‘Shagger’ Blunkett has fallen upon his sword.
The BBC Eulogy could not have been any more arselicking if it tried, anyone remember any such handwringing after any Tory sex scandal resignations?  Nope me neither.
In typical Trust Me Tony style his own testimonial was gushing and sickening - Blunkett was the ‘People’s Home Secretary’.  In the dying days of the last Tory government, shagging scandals such as this resulted in the waters turing blood red with the media and politician feeding frenzy, yet Pretty Straight Kinda Tony’s ‘whiter than white’ government is as chock full of cronies, nepotists, adulterers, cuckolders, shaggers and buggerers as any government and barely a murmour.

Anyone taking bets on how long before he returns Mandy style?  I’m thinking the first reshuffle after the inevitable Labour victory in the coming GE.  Don’t bet against him being Chancellor either.

My Happy Dance is muted by The Lurgy and the fact that the incoming is just as wet for ID cards as Shagger.

The Lurgy

I have The Lurgy.
You may wish to wash your hands after reading!

Monday, December 13, 2004

Get knives ‘off the streets’

It was only a matter of time before someone said it and Mad Dog ‘Shagger’ Blunkett has obliged

We must do everything we can to get knives off the streets

Sayeth Shagger, perhaps he should ask Alun Michael about his success in getting guns ‘off the streets’?
How is it that all these do-gooders are so blind (like Mad Dog I suppose) to the reality.  Cited incidents include Luke Walmsley, a 14 year old stabbed with a knife in school by another sub-16 year old.  In this case the killer commited the offence of carrying a knife to school, not to mention the minor crime of murder.  Would raising the age at which the killer could have bought a knife from 16 to 18 have saved poor Luke?  Clearly not.  The killer was under both ages.
Another high profile case is the Damillola Taylor killing.  The boy was stabbed with a broken milk bottle.  Are we to restrict the age from which one can buy milk?  Well if it saves just one life, think of the children etc.

Reality check boys and girls in government - it is already illegal to carry certain categories of knives.  It is already illegal to sell knives to under 16’s.  It is certainly already illegal to stab someone unless in self-defence (with huge caveats!).
If those laws are being broken then simply adding new laws is not going to fix it, yet government repeatedly fails to recognise this and address the real problem of criminal behaviour.

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

The Lie Repeated….

...often enough becomes the truth.

Nowhere is this more obvious at the moment than in the debate about using force against intruders.
In every news organ from the BBC to the Daily Telegraph the lie repeated is that Tony Martin shot Barras whilst he was ‘running away’.
No, not true.
The fatal shot was in the back, this is true.  It is also the case that the entry angle of the wound was in a upwards direction.
From the Judgement Files of Martin’s appeal

The passage of shot inside Barras’s body was angled at about 45 degrees upwards from the point of entry. It was suggested that this was explicable on the basis that he was bending down to put something in the bag when he was shot.

The fatal shot is considered to have been the first one fired, there is no suggestion that Barras was ‘running away’ nor that he was ‘climbing out of the window’ in the evidence.
Any suggestion is pure fabrication and wishful thinking on behalf of those who believe that the individual should not have the right to defend their person and property using the tools of self defence.

A disgrace.

Hungerford on the BBC

Readers in Blighty may well have seen the programme regarding the Hungerford massacre on the BBC last night.
There were a few (fairly minor) gun related inaccuracies (Ryan’s gun described as an automatic, sound effects of burst fire, implication that the gun could penetrate a wall from 1 mile away).  These aside the documentary was not the hatchet job on shooting that we normally expect from the BBC.  The first victim (the mother in the woods) was mentioned almost as an aside rather than the spark for the incident, could Ryan have attempted to assault this woman and shot her when she wouldn’t comply?  Did this then set him off on the basis that he felt he had nothing to lose and may as well go out in a blaze?  We will of course never know.

Having been kicked so many times, shooters are looking for the motivation behind screening this now.  Can we expect some push for legislation off the back of this?  It is rather hard to see what, being as the weapons used by Ryan are already banned.  Some semi-auto’s are still on ticket (.22lr) and there is some talk that .17hmr could be added (wishful thinking probably), speculation is that this could be being pushed back into the general public concious to stave off any relaxation.

Some random scrubber

One for the gentlemen this one, not much cop if you don’t have broadband - sorry!
Girl with a nice butt

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Poetry - why?

The thing about poetry is when it’s good, it’s bad - but when it’s bad it’s bloody awful.
Especially when there is a ‘message’.
In my inbox today:

Lay Down
 
Lay down the arms
That has caused too much blood shed
Too much harm.
 
Lay down your guns
That have destroyed families
Shooting the innocent ones.
 
So hand them in
And make them into tools
Instead of living in world of violence
Where another lonely body falls.

Cobblers.  With added poor grammar.  Not that I’m one to talk mind....

Saturday, December 04, 2004

Met Commisioner backs householders

Being just a short while from retirement, outgoing Met Police Commisioner obviously feels like going out with a bang.
From Reuters

Householders should be allowed to use extreme force to protect themselves against intruders even if it results in the death of a burglar, senior police chief Sir John Stevens has been quoted as saying.
London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Stevens, due to step down in January, told Saturday’s Daily Telegraph the law should presume that the person had acted lawfully.

Encouraging.  However Stevens still maintains that firearms may not be used, thereby ensuring that the householder will need to expose themselves to unnecessary danger of injury.
I hope that Stevens will not be remembered for this though, I prefer to remember him for this

“No one got cracked over the head for no reason,”

Slimey shit covered in shit

From BBC News

Kilroy-Silk attacked with slurry

Mr Kilroy-Silk said he was told the attack was ‘in the name of Islam’.
Euro MP Robert Kilroy-Silk has had a bucket of farm slurry thrown over him by a protester in Manchester.
The UK Independence Party member was arriving for a BBC radio show when the attacker emerged from behind a bush.

Fellow guest Ruth Kelly MP was also hit by the slurry. Mr Kilroy-Silk said the man, who later disappeared, claimed he was “doing it in the name of Islam”.

Kilroy-Silk has been busy shit-stirring in the UKIP by continuing to insist that a leadership election be held.  When I first heard of this story I assumed it was a disgruntled party member sick of his ill advised leadership bit, shame it wasn’t in some ways.

Anyone who has had dealings with slurry will know that you can wash all you like, but slurry gets in the pores and takes time to wash out.  So the orange one will have a definite whiff about him for a few days yet!

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Advent Calendar for Blokes

Boing, boing!

Thank you sir, may I have another?

A suggestion has been put to HMG as part of the “consultation exercise” that shooters be subjected to a ‘Shooting Test’ before they be permitted to possess firearms - much like already exists in parts of the continent.
Which heinous bunch of scum came up with this?

Gun Control Nazis?
Nope.

Mislead About Guncrime?
Nope.

The NRA?
You betcha.

We are quite used to Bisley Rifle Club being a useless bunch of establishment farts, but could at least content ourselves with the idea that they were just incompetant.  Increasingly though they are doing what they can to destroy shooting in the UK.  Let’s not forget that these are the bastards that claimed there was no sporting purpose for self loading rifles in the UK!  Er, hello! Practical Rifle!

The NRA goon quoted in this weeks Shooting Times on the matter says something along the lines that the shooting community must take the lead on matters such as this.  Sounds like another way of saying we need to shaft ourselves before the government does.
No doubt the NRA would claim that this is merely an extension of the idea of licensing the man not the gun, however surely even they must have noticed how useless testing has proven elsewhere?  Apparently not.

A reminder for the NRA of their purpose

To promote and encourage Marksmanship throughout the Queen’s Dominions in the
interests of Defence and the permanence of the Volunteer and Auxiliary Forces,
Naval, Military and the Air.

That means boys and girls, military type arms not bench rest nonsense.  Forcing shooters to undertake a pointless and expensive examination will do nothing to promote marksmanship nor will it provide a public safety benifit.

Update

The above post was copied to The Sportsman’s Association bulletein board.  The Director of the SA felt that the attack on the NRA was unwarranted.  Whilst I understand that fighting between supposed allies is counterproductive, I maintain that the NRA itself is an enemy of the future of shooting in the UK.
To avoid any potential embarrasement I have removed my link to the SA and will not promote the SA in future.
I am also reconsidering my ongoing membership and will not be contributing any more money to their funds.

Another Update
/picks toys up, puts them back in pram/

Calmed down slightly!  I’ll probably still give SA some cash now and then.