Screwdrivers Are Certainly Next
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Idiot Legislation
These countries that ban ownership of firearms are learning a hard truth: criminals don’t need guns to commit crimes…
Henry Webster, 16, was punched, kicked and hit repeatedly on the head on a tennis court at Ridgeway School in Wroughton, Wiltshire, in 2007.
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“He was knocked to the ground, he was kicked, punched and repeatedly hit over the head with a hammer.”
Henry has three separate skull fractures and a “brain injury.” The lack of firearms didn’t seem to prevent this thuggery, now did it? Shall we also ban hammers now?
Looks like knives are already on the agenda for removal. Whatever will you use to cut your steaks now?
But what’s this?? The state of Michigan issues a record number of concealed-carry permits and voiolent crime has decreased?
More than 155,000 Michiganders — about one in every 65 — are now authorized to carry loaded guns as they go about their everyday affairs, according to Michigan State Police records.
How can that be possible, when just the mere fact of owning a gun makes you a crazy killer-type person? (Yes, that was sarcasm.) Can it actually be that having so many armed citizens makes for a more polite populace…and a more circumspect criminal element? I know I’d think fifth (instead of twice, you see) about accosting someone if I knew there was a good possibility they could revoke my birth certificate.
Ted and I often wonder what happened to Britain. There was a time when the sun never set on British soil (not that I’m advocating colonialism, mind you…unless we’re speaking of the Moon and Mars), this was a people made of iron, forged in centuries of conflict. We can only assume that the rest of Europe (I’m talking to you France and Belgium) has worn them down to the nubbins they are today.
Come back, Britain! We need you!
Update: Via reader Mexicano, the site UK Commentators has more on this appalling-in-any-circumstances incident. Seems the BBC “failed” to report the assailants in the case are all Asian (read: “muslim”), and the attack was specifically race-related.
Tags: (formerly) great britain, do you have a flag, guns are good, socialism kills
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January 10th, 2008
To add insult to injury, if the teen had struck back on public school property, he would have been suspended for fighting.
January 11th, 2008
The waggish response to “The sun never sets on the British Empire” was “That’s because God doesn’t trust them in the dark.”
The problem is, they no longer trust themselves.
January 12th, 2008
People also get bludgeoned by rocks . . . Let’s ban rocks!
January 12th, 2008
And it was sooo insensitive of me to suggest that people needed knives to cut their steaks! Everyone knows bovine consumption is wroooooooong!!!
January 12th, 2008
2 points -
firstly, the story involving the schoolboy was actually a racist attack by several Muslims against a single white boy. The BBC don’t mention the fact – surprise, surprise – but others have.
secondly, don’t wait for Britain to ‘come back’. It’s already too late for that – nothing short of a miracle will save it now
January 12th, 2008
Wheels is quite right , no-one should trust an Englishman in the dark ( ask several ladies of my acquaintance ). Mind you it’s not wise to trust them in the day either .
We the people trust ourselves , it’s our government that does not trust us .
An old Brit .
January 12th, 2008
Mexicano, if you have any links corroborating #1 we’d like to see them. Thanks.
January 12th, 2008
This link documents the story – including the lack of accuracy and detail in the various BBC versions.
http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/search/label/Wroughton%20hammer%20attack