Gun Culture

Thursday, November 29, 2007

A Sigh Of Relief

There’s one member of the ruling clique who is no doubt breathing a heavy sigh of relief at the latest corruption scandal.
Head of the Paramilitary Thought Police, Sir Ian Blair.
That incompetent twat has slipped from the headlines in the last couple of weeks and has survived the vote of no confidence in him.  It seems the Inquisitor-In-Cheif lives to fight another day’s hard work enforcing the Marxist agenda endemic in our ruling classes.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Renewable Energy Bullshit

I notice on the regional news last night that my old school had just installed some twenty thousand pounds worth of solar panels.  Blimey.
The news piece included commentary from some of the pupils about how these panels would save money for the school and stop global warming.  A bold claim.  Also complete cock.

Let’s assume for the moment that ‘global warming’ is real and that it is entirely due to CO2 emissions due to human activity.  No, bear with me.
Exactly how much carbon was produced in the production of these cells?  Including mining the exotic materials and refining same of course.  I’m going to suggest it was quite a large amount, physically shipping these large fragile panels can’t have exactly been carbon neutral itself.  Supporters of photovoltaic cells will say that they are good for 40 years, the manufacturers are slightly more conservative and say 10 years.  These panels are going to have to produce a shit load of energy to pay for themselves.  Not that the school itself paid for them mind.  How much carbon will they save then?  Er.  None.  Since the main renewables (wind and solar) are unreliable and brown outs unacceptable, real power stations (coal, gas, nuclear) have to stay running to back up this fluctuating unreliable power source.  So therefore we can conclude that far from reducing carbon emissions, these units actually add to the overall global carbon footprint by virtue of the cost of their manufacture and installation.
OK so having decided that at best the units will not reduce the global carbon footprint, how much money are these vastly expensive units going to save the school?  The news piece cut to inside the school where a display panel show how much the solar panels are producing.  A whopping 200W.  No I haven’t missed out a K, or even a zero.  Two hundred piddling Watts.  Enough to power three five foot strip lights.
Woo.  Hoo.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Shoot Em Up Posters ‘Banned’

A little behind the curve on this one…

I’ve just noticed that the promo posters for a film have been banned because they:

could be seen to condone violence by glorifying or glamorising the use of guns

What a load of shite.  Reminds me of the fuss over the Landrover Freelander ad many moons ago.  Clearly the gun grabbers will wet themselves with outrage at any image or suggestion of a gun.  No doubt they’d love to see guns banned from films, excepting where they cause some kind of demonic tragedy for the owner.  The likes of Gill Marshall-Andrews no doubt think that guns are glamourised by films, I think it more likely that films are glamourised by the use of guns.  Hollywood is riddled with gun grabbers and yet films constantly feature guns.  Why?  Because guns have an appeal, a glamour of their own.  Not so much the sombre sporting arms that we are used to in Blighty but more the handguns and military style rifles that one sees in films.
There were also complaints that the promotion coincided with the shooting of the young lad in Liverpool.  So?  The death of the lad was clearly a tragedy, but the world keeps turning.  The world of the lads family has ended but the rest of us keep going on doing what we do.  What is this collective sense of offence that we seem to need to take?  Pain by proxy? 

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Government ID Security Shambles

Was anyone really surprised to learn that the Government lost a huge amount of data with enough details for an identity theif to pretty much steal your life?
I mean genuinely surprised, not faux surprised in a Government Minister type way.
Surely this exposes the lie that the ID database and associated ID cards will in anyway prevent identity theft?  Far from it, it will make these kind of balls ups more likely and make it easier for hackers to get their grubby little mitts on your personal details.
That said, I would not even slightly put it past the Government to declare that ID cards will be the solution to their own cockup.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

MOD Restricting Shooting

In the name of “elfinsafety” the MOD are restricting power levels on their ranges, this also affects Bisley.
Energy levels are apparently to drop from 7000 joules to 3800 joules, this doesn’t just knacker the 338 Lapua but also apparently 155 grain .308.  Which cocks up all kinds of shooting comps including Target Rifle, Match Rifle, and F Class.
The NRA are of course reacting in their usual manner.  i.e. rolling over and saying thank you sir - may I have another?
Shooters who aren’t so keen to take it up the arse (again) are describe by Glynn Alger as

namely rogue shooters who are not willing to accept the authority of the NRA to deal with this issue in timely fashion without interference.

What a twat.
Having seen the stunning sucesses of the NRA ‘dealing with issues in timely fashion’ (semi-auto ban for example, where the NRA told the Government there was no sporting purpose for a semi-auto) it is hardly surprising that shooters do not accept the so-called authority of the NRA.
Yes, the shooter who apparently gave the OIC at Altcar a verbal buggering and threatened him with legal action was probably ill advised in his actions, but I don’t think for one moment that his actions will be any more detrimental to the cause than the useless fuckers at Bisley bending over.
Glynn Alger also states that

We have to realise that to the military there is no ‘Defence Imperative’ to allowing us to shoot on their ranges.

How can the top knob at the NRA forget that the whole reason for the NRA coming to being was to encourage marksmanship and rifle usage for the defence of the nation?  Not for a bunch of old school tie wankers to piss around in comps which have bugger all relevance to warfare but to ensure that more people knew the business end of a military weapon.  The NRA should have been about ensuring that military shooting skills were practiced and yet it is chock full of old giffas shooting weapons you would never see on a battlefield practicing shooting styles alien to modern warfare.  If there is no defence imperative to civi shooting on military ranges it is because the NRA have been complicit in allowing this state of affairs to come about.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

EU Gun Control

From time to time I hear people who think that the EU will eventually lead to more liberal gun laws here in the UK.  They reason that because many of our neighbours have less strict gun control that EU law will eventually standardise to the French or German model.  They are of course quite wrong.  The EU is not in the business of providing freedom, it is in the business of control.  What is much more likely is that the EU will at first make a minimum level of control, not restricting the big two, whilst allowing more strict control in member states.  Then having established competency over that area of state law it will tighten up the screw until such time as it can outlaw guns in private ownership entirely.
Could this then be the first step on the road?

A British MEP is hoping to “fast track” a new EU deal on gun control and says last week’s school massacre in Finland should act as a wake up call.
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The new directive would make it harder to buy guns across the EU. 

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

More Plastic Copper Lunacy

Via Theo Spark (I really should get around to adding him to the blog roll...)

Community police officers stood by as grandmother rescued man attacked by three girls

So says the Daily Mail (usual Daily Mail caveat applies!)

Mrs Ward said the PCSOs radioed for help but did not tackle them.
Mrs Ward said: “They said they were there to report the crime to the police and take notes.”

Our hero Ann Ward (not bad nick for a ‘granny’ ) saw off the muggers whilst the PCSOs are alleged to have been bravely hiding behind a tree being ‘good witnesses’.  The sad thing is that they were probably acting according to ‘the book’ in not getting stuck in.
A ‘senior officer’ (whatever that means) claims

PCSOs might not have been able to arrest these girls but they could have at least prevented this man from being beaten up

Hang on though, I’m no legal expert but it is my understanding that robbery is an arrestable offence.  What I mean by this is that any citizen would be within their rights (and performing their common law duty) by arresting these girls.  It is true that the courts are not sympathetic to mistaken arrest by a citizen but I think that this incident is pretty clear cut.
In principle the PCSO system is more true to the Peel Principles than the ‘proper’ police and I support the system but the implementation, and seemingly the personnel, falls far short of the standard required.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Call Of Duty 4

It’s fair to say I’m a little bit excited.....

Saturday, November 03, 2007

PETA say hunters are like slavers and serial killers

Excert from NRA vs PETA debate.

Friday, November 02, 2007

Resign you twat

From almost day one in the job, that vile individual Blair has never been free from controversy.  From describing the Met as ‘hideously white’ to proclaiming that ‘almost nobody’ could understand the fuss about the two Soham girls.  Either of these gaffs should have left an honourable man considering his position.  His crowning glory is of course the monumental series of failures of his command which lead to the tragic shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles and his ignorance of the facts which lead to him making slurs against the young electrician.  The whole force seemed to know that the lad wasn’t the bomber and yet Blair was still claiming on TV that he was connected with the bombing and that he had failed to follow police instructions when he had in fact done no such thing.  Either incomptence or a failure to command the respect of his staff, either way he has proved himself to be woefully lacking the mettle for the top wooden top job, had he an ounce of dignity, honour or even shame he would have taken it on the chin and stepped down.  He has none of these qualities.
Resign you twat.
Oh and look who has leapt to his defence

Ken Livingstone has leapt to the defence of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair after his force was found guilty of catastrophic failings in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Another vile individual.  Says it all really.  Even his natural support base of the Guardian thinks he should go.

Foam Gun Leads To Warning

When I say foam gun I don’t mean a foam making gun, I’m talking about something that shoots a foam ‘bullet’ - Nerf guns and the like.
Hardly a danger and hardly realistic.
Yet a group of students in Springfield Ohio’s Wittenburg University were taken into custody for possesing such a beast.
From the AP article:

Wittenberg is a liberal arts college

There’s a surprise.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Good Dawg!