Gun Culture

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Abortion law review oddity

Now, I am not desperately comfortable with the concept of abortion.  I struggle with the concept of imposing my morality on others though, but what of the rights of the unborn?  I’d prefer abortion didn’t happen but I’d rather it was done professionally rather than go back to the ‘good old days’ of the back street abortionists.

Now that’s out of the way on to the current goings on.  The argument goes that because premature babies of below 24 weeks have survived due to improved medical practices that we should reduce the limit.  What?  So when medicine was not so clever it was moral, but now it isn’t?  What kind of bullshit argument is that?  We’ll ignore for now that many of the survivors (and not all prems survive at that age) grow up with severe difficulties, even if we assume they all survive and are fine the fact that medical science has worked wonders does surely not change the validity of life.
Either it is right to abort a feotus or it is not, that it can be grown on in vitro should not be a factor.  Very few (if any) prem births would survive anywhere near the 24 week boundary without the amazing technology we have now.  If we did not have the technology would this mean that abortion up to 30+ weeks would be valid?  No.  Then why should an advance mean a change in the rules.

I believe that the technological argument is merely being used as an excuse for anti-abortionists to completely ban abortion by bites.  Some day it will be possible to grow a feotus completely in-vitro, will abortion be completely abolished along with all contraception?

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Nutter takes loaded gun from the hands of a bunny hunter

Crikey!
From the local rag:

A MAN has gone on trial accused of breaking firearms laws by grabbing a high powered rifle from three men shooting foxes near his home.

Jason Hoyle, 41, was accused of possessing the bolt action rifle without a licence after he took it from the men during a midnight row last September.

He claims he was entitled to take the gun because he was afraid that he could have been hurt by the men shooting on land near his home at Mallerstang near Kirkby Stephen.

But the prosecution at Carlisle Crown Court say he had no right to behave as he did because the man in charge of the gun did have a licence and was allowed to shoot there.

Hoyle, of Carr House, Mallerstang, has pleaded not guilty to possessing the rifle and ammunition and affray.

In evidence yesterday farmer’s son Richard Halliday, 21, a former gamekeeper with a diploma in game and wildlife management, said he and his younger brother Anthony and Slovakian farm worker David Cernak were shooting rabbits and foxes when the door of their Land Rover Discovery was suddenly opened and Hoyle reached in and grabbed the loaded rifle.

Mr Halliday said Hoyle started kicking the Discovery and pointing the gun inside it.

He also reached into the car and grabbed his mobile, the court was told.

Mr Halliday said. “I felt very threatened.”

Prosecuting counsel David Murphy said Hoyle claimed the “defence of necessity”, saying he had no choice but to take the gun from the men for his own safety

“But the fact that he may have been annoyed by these three young lads does not give him the right to take the weapon from them, to kick the vehicle they were in or to prevent them from calling the police,” he said.

The trial continues.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Help for Heroes Charity Walk

Just a plug for a chap I know who is doing the Lyke Wake Walk (no idea what that is!) for sponsorship for the Help for Heroes appeal.
If you want to throw a couple of bob in the pot you can do so by visiting his Justgiving site

Thursday, May 08, 2008

No Such Thing As Society

I’m really pissed off with people (and when I say people I really mean communist twats like er, David Cameron) selectively quoting Lady Thatch (God Bless ‘er)

There’s no such thing as society

They take it to mean that the mean old bag doesn’t believe in looking after the vulnerable.  Bastards.
However let’s look at the quote in context:

“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.”

What could make more sense than that?

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

‘Live’ hand grenade found in woods

From The Local Rag

BOMB disposal experts had to be called in after a live hand grenade was discovered near woods in Cockermouth.

The device was found under a fallen tree near Horse Shoe Woods, Slatefell, on Monday afternoon by a walker.

It was the size of a tennis ball, blue in colour, with an orange clip. The pin had been removed but the device had not exploded. It is not known how the army training grenade came to be at the site but police believe it may have been there for some time.

The walker contacted police, who called in army bomb disposal experts to remove it.

Police say it is lucky nobody was hurt and are appealing for information about the origin of the device and how it came to be at the woods.

They have also advised anyone who finds a similar device not to touch it, move away from the area and contact the police immediately.

How exciting.  However…
“army training grenade “ suggests to me that this was nothing more than a pyrotechnic device, either designed to make a loud bang (blank shotgun cartridge type device) or emit a load of smoke.  I’m hardly an expert on training grenades mind.
Last time I was in those woods there were a fair few airsoft pellets around, I’m thinking this was probably one of those lads.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Sharuna Sagar - useless

Sharuna Sagar does the regional news for BBC NE & Cumbria and she is bastard shit at it.
I have never - NEVER seen a single bulletin she hasn’t made at least one cock up.  Whether it be a pronunciation or a good old fashioned stumble she never fails to drop a bollock.
Why does she still have a job?
OK so she’s easy on the eye and has a super pair of jubblies but these are not adequate qualifications for a news reader.  Qualifications include being able to read an autocue. FAIL.  Looking at the right camera once in a while. FAIL.
Being the first bird to read the news in a sari is not a free pass to unconditional employment.  I’m quite sure she is a lovely lass, but sweetie - news reading is not your forte.