The choice of yobs for gun crime.
Is child shooting an olympic sport now?
Some people are too stupid to remain free.
The English seem to be about to find this out.
Winston Churchill is rolling around in his grave right now over Britain’s anti gun stances.
Have I got this right? The UK Olympic shooting team cannot train inside the UK?
Good grief. That’s diagnosably paranoid.
Was Hamilton a member of the Olympic shooting team? If not, the "anger" is more like "idiocy".
An epidemic of hoplophobia..
How can it be tightened up beyond an outright ban?
The Government is supposed to safeguard the public, not be swayed by sportspeople." The UK-wide Gun Control Network, which replaced the Snowdrop Campaign, said it had been pressing ministers to keep the handgun ban intact. Gill Marshall-Andrews, the network's chairman, said: "We are opposed to any kind of change in the legislation, even for training purposes. Some of those who have taken up the sport are young enough to have done so since the ban was introduced, knowing that it was illegal in this country. Why should we put wider society at risk for the sake of a few sportspeople?"
Remember this when they claim to not oppose guns for sporting purposes.
I wonder if they are going to relax the rules to allow the shooting sports to occur during the London games.
Or are the pistol teams going to point their fingers and shout BANG?
How many individual shootings have there been since the ban on guns? Does it add up to more than those 16 children? Bet it does. So where is the safety????
Finally they are addressing the alarming incidents of Olympic athletes running amok.
I think they should look into banning the UK’s participation in javelin, archery, and shot put as well. If it saves even one child's life it will be worth it.
In fact, competition by its very nature is violent, too violent for England. People thinking about, and practicing toward, WINNING can lead to wrong thoughts that could possibly lead to injury of innocents.
The choice of yobs for gun crime.
Hey Anne! What is worth the lives of 2 children a year?
Your smug sense of self-accomplishment?
Since 1997, there have been on average 2 more under 18 year old Britons killed every year by shootings.
Come on Anne, what are their lives worth?
I wasn’t aware that Olympic shooters were in the habit of potting children. Pearston strikes me as more than a little unhinged on the topic.
I have to agree with some other posters. Does the UK know use children as practice targets? I mean I know the UK is looking forward to great deficits in their NH but to shoot the children??? Seems kind of overboard to me. Why not pensioners or lifers?
“A child’s life is not worth a medal,” she said.
Between 1992 and 1999 there were 62 drownings of children in ponds in the UK and 18 drownings in swimming pools. (http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file21496.pdf).
When is the UK going to ban ponds and swimming pools? It’s for the children!
I think she means that “a medal is not worth a child’s life”.
A child’s life is worth much more than a medal!
Gott Himmel, I’m so sick to bleeding gums death of activist fruit loops. I would much prefer the presense of ten live rats to one leftist cretin.
TBH I’m not a supporter of Olympic pistol shooting and special dispensation given to these shooters. I think its an insult to all the others who, like me had their property made illegal and otherwise suffer the ridiculous laws on shooting in the UK.
But if it annoys the likes of pearston & gun control network then it might be worth it...
Watch crime drop during that time.
Osama agrees, and promises not to attach any to the kiddie suicide vests he will distribute to UK children.