Gun Culture

Thursday, October 27, 2005

al-BBC

In the run up to the Iraq invasion we were used to referring to the BBC as the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation, and we are quite used to the usage of our TV licence monies being used to pump out left wing propaganda.
Now it seems that the BBC wants to move up a gear with BBC Arabic
This is apparently going to cost £19 million of OUR tax money to provide Dirka-Dirka’s with a TV channel no doubt sympathetic to whatever ‘insurgent’ bandwagon is rolling at the time.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Pigging Disgrace

Nothing much to add to everyone else’s expressions of outrage and astonishment at the phasing out of piggybanks due to ‘cultural sensitivity’.
Surely we must be in the endgame of western civilization as we know it, when we are modifying the behaviour of the majority to suit a minority?  Democracy?  Don’t be silly, we have to do everything according to Sharia dontcha know.  If any beardie tofu munching Guardian wank bag wants to know why the likes of the BNP are gaining in support then they only need to look at banning of piggy banks, banning of our national flag, banning of anything that suggests English/Britishness.  When the centre ground is genuflecting to Islam then the extreme is the only home of the moderate and the proud Englishman.
The best quote I’ve seen so far on Piggygate is as follows from Councillor Mahbubur Rahman,

It’s a tolerance of people’s beliefs

WTF?

Viva Brazilia

Slow off the mark with this one!
Brazil’s referendum on the ban of sale of firearms, which proposed a ban on sales to all except security forces, farmers or sportsmen (not unlike Blighty) resulted in a decisive victory for the rejection of the proposal.
Perhaps the Brazilians will have noted that the position in Blighty has failed to make any impact on gun crime.  Perhaps they weren’t to be fooled by the smoke and mirror idea that restricting legal ownership will prevent criminal acts.  Perhaps they recognise that in a violent society it is important for the ordinary guy to have the means to protect themselves from agressors.

According to parlimentarian Luiz Antonio Fleury

If the campaign to prohibit the sale of arms wins, then it is the average citizen, the decent man, who will lose the right to defend himself and protect his family and his property

Just like in Blighty.

The rejection of the proposal is a victory, but the gun grabbers will not be deterred.  They will seek new ways to implement their oppressive laws without the need for the tiresome consent of the populous.  The fight for freedom is never ending.

Thespian Hoplophobia

We are quite used to the idea that luvvies are anti-gun - it’s not big news anymore.  Even so I was disgusted by moon-faced wench Keira Knightley’s reaction to having to fire two blank fire machine guns for film ‘Domino’.
From MTV

“Machine guns absolutely freaked me out,” she revealed recently. “I burst into tears the first time I shot it, because I had two of them and [people should only hold one at a time], and I had one in each hand and the force knocked me over. So I basically completely lost control. We had blanks in them, not live rounds, but even so, it freaked me out so that I burst into tears.”

Pathetic.
Knightley’s success as an actress bemuses me, she’s more wooden than a very wooden thing.

New blondie Bond Daniel Craig also has the hoplophobic gene

I hate handguns

Bizarrely he also thinks bullets have voodoo magic.

Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that’s what’s scary about them

Oh and he doesn’t like vodka martini, shaken or stirred.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Disgusting Bitch Jailed

Recently we have had a fair bit of publicity regarding animal cruelty, including of course the case of a young Dalmation hanged from a tree by some unspeakable scumbags.
Today we hear of a foul bitch who killed a cat by putting it into a washing machine.

She allegedly bragged: “I put it on boil wash as well.”

Apparently this was because the cat had scratched her.  Poor bloody cat.

The court heard Thacker, who has a baby and two daughters aged six and 16, had mental health problems and was on anti-depressants.

Pathetic excuse.  Everyone and their dog is on anti-depressants these days and we don’t all go around killing our pets in washing machines.  What is this horrible individual going to do when her baby punches her when changing it?  Tumble drier I suppose.

Oh and it’s quite common for country sportsmen to dislike cats as witnessed by some of the comments on forums whenever a cat is mentioned.  These people all have small willies.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Sainsburys have Sig Sauers

Want a Sig?  Me too.
Apparently there is a limited special offer on at Sainsburys

Thursday, October 13, 2005

RFD only for airguns?

New addition to the betamax bill.  Airgun sales are to be limited to registered dealers.  This doesn’t seem to be saying that the dealer needs to be a Registered Firearms Dealer, but the BBC is typically contradictory on the matter.
On the one hand this is

A new registration scheme has been proposed, under which dealers would be required to pay a £150 fee.

My emphasis.
On t’other

Under the proposals, dealers will have to prove to police that they are fit to be a registered firearms dealer

More worrying for many dealers is that airguns must be sold face to face as is the case for firearms or shotguns.  There are a fair number of responsible dealers who rely on mail order or internet for their business which will be royaly shafted by this.
Of course this will do little to address the real problem of thuggish and antisocial behaviour but for the statists anything which further puts the screws on responsible gun ownership is a good thing.
Interestingly this may well be the first piece of legislation forced upon the Union by members of the Jimmy Parliament as opposed to the Jimmy Raj in Westminster.  A sign of things to come?

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Let’s laugh at those dumb assed yanks

There is a video clip doing the rounds at the moment which features some smooth suited tosser asking US folks on the street which country should get some ass-whooping next.  The ‘joke’ is that the people put a pin into a map which has Australia labeled as the country of their choice.  Ho ho ho.  Aren’t Americans stoopid and aren’t Europeans and Australians sooo clever and cosmopolitan?  Well no actually.
OK, you’ve got a camera in your face and a chap in a shiny suit pushes a map in your face.  Maybe you ain’t quite sure where Iran actually is, I could make a fair fist but I’m not sure 100%.
Now this map has Iran marked on it, but it is clearly Australia.
Plenty of people are going to just stuff the pin in rather than risk making a chump by challenging the map guy.  How many people did they have to interview to get those people who were mugged into putting that pin in Oz?

OK so it might be funny in a smug superior ‘aren’t I clever kind and aren’t these folks dumb’ sort of way, but there is no shortage of Europeans who would fall just as easily for the same stunt - and you wouldn’t need to interview too many to get your footage either.

River Cottage Reheated - Again

Now I’m a big fan of the River Cottage series of shows featuring Hugh Fearnly-Wassname.  For those not familiar it follows Hugh’s journey to (sort of) self-sufficiency.  First Hugh gets a cottage in Dorset and pretends to live there on his own whilst growing a few veg and raising and killing out a couple of pigs.  We see some of Hugh’s adventures with some of Dorset’s more colourful characters, Hugh gambles a bit with his futures and generally has a fine old time.  Next series, Hugh steps things up a gear with a bit more land, stock and polytunnels.  All good stuff.  Soon the proceeds from books and TV allow Hugh to buy a smallholding.  A new series River Cottage Forever appeared.  High hopes for a return to form.  Which it was.  Literally.  A series of clips from the first two series.  V. dissapointing.
New series featuring his venture to open a restaurant which apparently only opens when Hugh can be arsed.  Not bad but not a patch on the older stuff.
Now I get an email about another new series.  Wahay!
Or not.

This series repackages the River Cottage experience (both the original River Cottage series and last year’s Beyond River Cottage) into six themed programmes in which Hugh tells how and why he has arrived at these principles

Yawn. 

Monday, October 10, 2005

Smut Webmaster in Choky

Chris Wilson, webmaster of an adult site, has been arrested on obscenity charges in Florida.
The site operated by Mr Wilson is the one which has been featured in the media recently as showing graphic pictures from Iraq including charred remains of Dirka Dirkas or Dirka Dirkas shot by American forces.  The arrest seems to have been prompted by the media interest although the authorities deny this.

Wilson was being held in jail under a $151,000 bond, the Polk County sheriff’s office said.

“In my 33 years of law enforcement experience, this is one of the most horrific examples of filthy, obscene materials we have ever seized,” Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement

Your intrepid blogger has embarked on some, er, research into this web-site and most of what is freely available is best described as smut.  No doubt more exotic material is available to subscribers but I’m willing to bet there is a whole lot worse out there.
The legality behind the charges remain in doubt, the website itself is hosted in the Netherlands and I believe such smuttery is not a problem there.  Given too that the US is probably the largest producer and consumer of porn in the world the double standards are interesting.

Anyhow some of his chums have got together to fight the charges.

Note that whilst “Free Chris” does not contain smut, some of the links certainly do.  Don’t click the link if you are underage or easily offended by smut.  Oh and when I say smut, I mean porn.  Just so we’re clear?

Earthquake Tragedy

The humbling power of our planet in action again.
The muesli munchers must be really pissed that they can’t blame it on global warming.  Mind I wouldn’t put it past them to try.  Notice also the distinct lack of westerners calling this Allah’s revenge for harbouring terrorists.

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Murdered by Mugger

Currently in court is the case of a man who was killed by an apparent mugger.  A mugging ‘gone wrong’ I suppose the Criminal Justice System would have it.
Bernard Hegarty was stabbed by bum Christopher Olokun in East London last August, he died five days later.
Yet another story where the state has failed to protect a member of society, where all the after the effect legal censure will not bring this man back or I suspect make the slightest difference in discouraging further such assualts in the future.

Sadly the family in their grief have been exploited by movements to restrict knives, movements which as usual fail to recognise that knives per se aren’t the problem it is the use of them by criminals which is the issue. 

Had Mr Hegarty been armed with pepper spray, a baton or better still a gun - might he have stood a fighting chance of surviving this assault and making the score one up for the good guys?  We will of course never know, but I for one would rather that Mr Hegarty had that choice rather than being disarmed by the state and becoming just another victim of a failed social experiment some fifty years old.

Would be killer released

Following the release of a teenage girl, given a 12 month referal order for the attempted murder assault of a 5 year old boy, the father is understandably disgusted.

It is mere fortune that this young lad was not killed and then we would have had another Jamie Bulger.  The nation was rightly repulsed by the Bulger incident and it seems to me that there isn’t much to chose between the cases, other than this lad was lucky enough to survive.

Monday, October 03, 2005

Florida Castle Doctrine

I can’t believe (well maybe I can) that so many people are falling for the Brady Bunch Bullshit about the Florida Castle Doctrine.  Even gun owners who I thought might have been better informed are swallowing the propaganda.

The law doesn’t give a green light for trigger happy nutters to open fire if someone looks at them a bit funny, the law merely removes the previous obligation to retreat as far as possible before acting in self defence.  Yes this means that people might be able to shoot before they are actually attacked.  This makes sense to me, why wait until it is too late and you are injured or worse before defending yourself?  Why give the bad guy the first shot free? 

Republican Dennis Baxley told the House: “I’m sorry people, but if I’m attacked I shouldn’t have a duty to retreat. That’s a good way to get shot in the back.”

The propaganda doesn’t mention that concealed carry permit holders must pass training and checks before being allowed to carry, or that there are a number of places ‘off-limits’ for carry including bars.  See Packing.org for more on the details of CCW permits.  They certainly don’t mention that holders of CCW permits tend to be the most peaceable folks and that incidents involving holders are extremely rare.

Keith Batton of ABTA isn’t fooled:

“If they’re trying to scare people I think they’ve just wasted an awful lot of money.

“This law is not going to put people off travelling to Florida. Tourists are generally aware of the comparative freedom by way of carrying guns and are highly unlikely to put themselves in situations of confrontation.”

CCW and the Castle Doctrine make Florida a safer place to visit, not a more dangerous one.

Lorry overtaking ban

Lorries are to be banned from overtaking on a three-mile stretch of the M42 to cut congestion

Fantastic, roll it out across the whole network please.  There can’t be anyone who hasn’t been frustrated by a lorry overtaking another at the rate of 1mph on motorways, dual carriageways or even more frustrating crawler lanes.  Sitting behind two lorries, one an inch behind the other meaning a safe overtake is impossible, for miles on end and getting to a crawler lane only to find the lorry at the back pull out and creep past the lead unit just as the crawler lane runs out is surely one of the most infuriating aspects of road travel.  Sure I appreciate that the lorries have a job to do and no doubt the drivers of the slightly faster units get pissed off being stuck behind a unit doing 2 mph less then their own machine can manage, but when the lorries are (supposedly) restricted to a speed significantly less than the car speed limit I think car traffic should be able to get by when the opportunity arises.  Let’s not forget that on a single carriageway HGVs are limited to 40mph.