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Friday, July 29, 2005

Aussies chuck out some filth

Good on yer blue, as our antipodean friends might say.  No stereotyping there then.
Who can blame them for throwing out this piece of scum who apparently

After being released from his first prison term in 1973 he raped a nine-year-old boy, and when released again in 1977 he raped a 13-year-old boy. In 1981 he was again freed on parole but was convicted of indecent behaviour with a boy under 14.

Clearly a predator and a danger to the public.
Wherein the catch then?
Our mates down under are sending this disgusting individual back to his country of origin.
Blighty.
How times change, once we deported our criminals to the colonies and now they’re sending the buggers (literally in this case) back.

Do us a favour lads, if you must send this creature back - send him in a body bag.

Met Boss Monday Morning QB

I tend to criticize the Monday Morning Quarterbackers who use that lovely 20:20 hindsight to deconstruct the shooting of that illegal in the tube station.  Some of them even make huge assumptions or play loose with the ‘facts’.  Disappointing but not surprising then to hear Met gaffa Blair doing a similar thing with the arrest of a suspected bomber on a train in the West Midlands force area.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said officers using a Taser on a suspected suicide bomber ran an “incredible risk” of detonating a bomb.

In this instance it seems (although we don’t know for sure) that the perp was on the train with some of his chums, it doesn’t seem that he was on route to a ‘job’ fully strapped with bomb.  Sensibly the coppers chose to take him down with a less lethal method, i.e. a Taser.  Why sensible?  Quite simply if this was one of the 21/7 ‘bombers’ he is potentially more use to us alive than dead.  Dead men tell no tales is the refrain.
No doubt Blair was trying to deflect any potential accusations that a Taser should have been used in Stockwell, but by criticising his colleagues in West Mids he is merely showing himself up to be the vile individual we would expect one of Tony’s Cronies to be.

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Shoot a citizen and get away on your hols

Now as before, I believe that the officer who shot the guy on the subway did the right thing based on the circumstances and his training and standing orders.  However the liberal press is going to love this one.

A police officer involved in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian man at a London Tube station has been given a holiday paid for by Scotland Yard.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair personally authorised the break for the officer and his family.
Jean Charles de Menezes was shot eight times at Stockwell on Friday after fleeing three undercover officers who mistook him for a suicide bomber.

I can understand the thinking, but I’m not so sure it was such a good idea to be paying for his hols out of the public purse.  It ‘sends out the wrong message’ as left wing politicians are fond of saying.

Householder beaten by thug intruder

It’s a wee while since we’ve had any home invasion stories here at Gun Culture.  How remiss, it’s not like it never happens is it?
Householder beaten by thug intruder

Having endured the trauma of a burglary the day before, this single mother found a burglar in her home (making this the third break-in in 10 months BTW).  Not a problem surely?  All our liberal friends (!) tell us that burglars are:

a) all just kids anyway
and
b) will just runaway if confronted

Seemingly this burglar had never spoken to a liberal and didn’t know the rules, as chummy not only was he in his 20’s but he didn’t flee when confronted.  No siree Bob.  Chummy attacked her with her own ironing board (Violence Policy Centre advise you not to have an ironing board as burglars will take it from you and use it against you.  Or is that guns?  Never mind.) and in the immortal words “a scuffle ensued”.
Our heroine is not exactly a lightly built woman, so I didn’t really fancy his chances much.  Non-the-less our heroine did suffer both broken ribs and a broken thumb in the attack.

“They will not get the best of me.”

Good on y’gal.

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Things you will not learn in school

I found this on a great forum called British Blades, which as you might expect is a knife makers/collectors forum.
I’d be surprised if the following is anything to do with Bill Gates, but if it is then Bill just went up a big notch in my estimation.

Bill Gates recently gave a Commencement speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes; learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

If you agree, pass it on.
If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English - Thank a soldier!!

Friday, July 22, 2005

Hoey is new Countryside Alliance Chairman

You can’t keep a good gal down.  Quite why Kate is a Labour MP escapes me, she is far to good for them.
Kate is well known for supporting competition shooting, including pistol shooting, in Blighty.  She has also spoken up in defence of hunting, hence the recent announcement.

Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed

How do you like this fellow?  Not a lot I suspect.
This story in Reuters tells us pretty much all we need to know about this particular poisonous individual.

Bakri, a Syrian-born cleric who has been vilified in Britain since 2001 when he praised the September 11 hijackers, said he did not believe the bombings and attempted attacks on London were carried out by British Muslims.
He condemned the killing of all innocent civilians but described attacks on British and U.S. troops in Muslim countries as “pro-life” and justified.
In an interview with Reuters, Bakri described Osama bin Laden, leader of the radical Islamist network al Qaeda, as “a sincere man who fights against evil forces”.
Bakri said he would like Britain to become an Islamic state but feared he would be deported before his dream was realised.
“I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over number 10 Downing Street, but over the whole world,” he said.

So why exactly is this vile creature still on our shores exactly?

Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of Britain’s most outspoken Islamic clerics, vowed militant Islamists would go on attacking until the government pulled its troops out of Iraq.

I suspect that this individual does not have any direct links and is just full of hot air and shit, but the trouble is that impressionable young muslims are listening to this creature and lapping up every word.

We should deport him, but not to Syria or Lebanon (he holds citizenship of both).  Just take him 12 miles out and kick him overboard.  If he tries to swim towards our shores we shoot him, if not then he is free to go and the very best of British luck to him.

Suspected Bomber Shot

Already, following the shooting of a suspected suicide bomber, we are seeing the left wing press reverting to type.
From the Guardian

Plainclothes police chased a man in a thick coat through a subway station, wrestled him to the floor of a train car and shot him to death in front of stunned commuters

Get the bit between the lines there?  They had the man down and then shot him anyway.  Just for laughs.

``They pushed him onto the floor and unloaded five shots into him,’’ witness Mark Whitby told the British Broadcasting Corp. ``He looked like a cornered fox. He looked petrified.’’

I suppose you can’t argue with a witness statement, the guy was telling what he saw but what did you expect?  If this was a bomber he was probably scared that Allah would be pissed that he hadn’t taken any infidels with him.  Alternatively he might have just realised, rather late, that this isn’t some bullshit fable from a story book.  This is serious.  Deadly serious.

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Update

So it seems that the worst case scenario has come to pass.  Jean Charles de Menezes, the man shot, was not only not carrying a bomb but appears to have no connection to the terrorists.  We’ll likely never know why this fellow chose to wear such a bulky jacket on a warm summers day, nor why he chose to run when challenged and in process jumping over barriers - a decision which led to his shooting dead by an armed policeman.
The liberal press and media will love this, endless whining and bitching about the so-called ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy will ensue.  One can only hope that this bitching does not, as I fear will be the case, lead to new guidlines which may well make the chances of stopping a real terrorist less likely.  Already we have this from the Bullshit Broadcasting Corp

the death of Mr Menezes shows the tragic consequences which can lead from such a policy and there may now have to be a rethink by Scotland Yard

The shooting of this innocent man is a tragedy, but I do not blame the policeman who will have this death on his conscience for the rest of his days nor the police chiefs who instigated the more robust policy.
The only people to blame for this man’s death are the terrorists who created this climate

Separated at Birth?

When watching the goings on in London yesterday it struck me how much that unpleasant fellow Sir Ian Blair reminds me of another unpleasant fellow Ken Clarke.  Not just the physical similarity but his mannerisms and voice.
Well they are both tossers I suppose.

If you are ever tempted to take top woodentop Blair too seriously, just think of this picture of him in his David Brent days.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Corn Liquor ‘til I Die

Just found out that top hill billy rockers Hayseed Dixie are playing near my hometown at Solfest.
Tarnation boy, iffin I’da know I’da bought me some darn tickets (spits on ground)

Too late, too late was the cry - all sold out.  Arse.

I’ll just have to console myself with buying their latest album A Hot Piece of Grass.
Which rather reminds me that I need to update my listening to etc.  I’d procrastinate, but I think I’ll leave it until tomorrow.

Homemade gun wielder shot

A couple of days old this story, but worth adding I think.

A man shot dead by police in Northumberland had a homemade gun, an initial investigation has revealed.
John Mark Scott, 42, died from a single shot fired by a police marksman in the village of Stocksfield on Saturday.

He had barricaded himself inside a house in Kimberley Gardens after being seen assaulting a woman in the street.

Northumbria Chief Constable Mike Craik had said applications for shotgun licences from Mr Scott had been revoked in the past.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which is investigating the shooting, said a forensic examination of the weapon had showed it was capable of firing shotgun rounds.

Ignoring for a moment the concept that an application for SGC can be ‘revoked’ rather than ‘refused’, perhaps Mr Scott had his renewal refused, let us consider for a moment the Violent Crime Reduction Bill and various instruments dreamed up by the Home Office to ban replicas.  Part of the guff regarding replicas or blank firers is that they are supposedly converted to live fire.  Now I’m sure this happens, but even if the new law were to stop conversions overnight (which it won’t) the demand for firearms will not go away.  Where practical, scum will buy ‘proper’ guns from smuggled stock.  If not then it is highly likely the demand will be filled by home build, it is not at all difficult in fact anyone with a little knowledge of firearms and a little bit of metalwork skills can do it.
Chummy here was denied a SGC.  It appears he was not well connected enough to get a black market gun, he does not appear to have converted a replica/pea shooter or whatever.  It seems he has made a device capable of firing a shot, it is easy to do and will be done.

Conclusion?
As ever, government should concentrate on addressing criminal behaviour (i.e. put criminals behind bars) and stop pissing about ‘round the edges by applying restrictions on legitimate items which only the law abiding will be effected by.

Dumbasses Giving Them Ammo

So we’re all aware of the top plod brass talking about how replicas are this dangerous and can get you that killed right?
One of the golden rules of owning a replica or even summat which looks like a gun is

Don’t point it at people - especially PC Copper

There’s a good chance you’ll be shot.
Bearing that in mind the numpty featured in this incident got off extremely lucky with his innards still inward.

A police helicopter was scrambled and armed officers deployed when a man threatened two of their colleagues with a gun-shaped cigarette lighter.
The 27-year-old man took the lighter from his pocket and pointed it at the patrol officers in Littlebrook Avenue, Slough, Berkshire, on Wednesday.

What our intellectually challenged friend found is that the police have zero sense of humour with this kind of shit and for once I don’t blame them.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Airgun Thug Walks

At a time where the VCRB seeks to increase the age limit for buying an airgun and the criminality of shooting beyond boundaries is being (rightly IMO) tightened we see THIS story of a 21 year old thug who walked free, seemingly after police blunders.

The father of a 13-year-old girl shot with an air rifle has criticised police after a man accused of shooting her walked free from court.
Gavin Long, 21, formerly of Cosford Close, Lincoln, admitted to officers he fired at a group of eight teenagers from a first-floor flat.

But the case at Lincoln Crown Court collapsed when it emerged Mr Long was not been properly cautioned by police.

Two questions.  What good would increasing the age limit for purchasing air guns have done?  What good would MORE restrictions on airguns have done where this perp walks on a seemingly bang to rights case?  The answer in both cases is self-evidentally “No good at all”.

The bottom line (as ever) is that incidents such as this are as a result of criminal (or anti-social if you prefer) behaviour and legislating against objects will do no good at all - especially if the criminal justice system is too incompetent to follow up on law breaking with punishment.

Gun Toting Robber in School

Yeah, OK, you know where this one is headed.

An 11-year-old boy spent three hours in a police cell after he brandished a plastic toy gun at a schoolmate and told him to “hand over the money”.

The STORY don’t make it clear whether the boy was clowning with his mates or was hassling some other schmuck, however it is clear that the response was way out of proportion for the ‘crime’ committed.
Sure the kid had breached school rules by bringing the toy to school and further by attempting a mock hold-up dug his hole, but this merits a sound bollocking and a bit of detention - certainly not a trip down the clink.

Kent Police said it acted in the public interest and any reports of firearms were taken extremely seriously

It wasn’t a firearm though, it was a crappy plastic toy.
I think back to my school days yet again remembering the amount of crime, assualt (including GBH/ABH) and thefts that went on (and this was one of the best schools in the area) and there was no chance what so ever of the five-oh being involved.  No. Chance. 
The school in this case says that it was not their decision to get the boy arrested but what did they suppose the plod were going to do?
All this bullshit when real firearm crime is rife in Blighty.  Bonkers.

Monday, July 18, 2005

Heath Dead

So Ted Heath is dead.
Rot in hell traitor bastard.