Posted on 07/27/2013 3:18:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Danny Nightingale a convicted man
Buried deep in the judge’s sentencing explanation in the Danny Nightingale case (a former SAS sniper sentenced to two years’ suspended prison sentence for possessing a Glock pistol and 300 rounds of ammunition) is this astonishing observation:
"It is because the unlawful possession of a firearm endangers society that even where mitigation appears very strong significant sentences are still appropriate.
"There are many examples of such cases. For instance in 2006 a defendant called Blackall had been shot and rendered a paraplegic by an unknown gunman who was never identified. On a further occasion a man knocked at the defendant’s front door and put a gun to his head. He reported this to the police but no one was apprehended.
"He kept a loaded revolver thereafter for his own protection. Four months later the police came to his house and he told them where his gun was. His exceptional circumstances were taken into account to reduce the sentence of five years to three years imprisonment."
Do our eyes deceive us? Is it true that a fellow citizen rendered paraplegic by an unknown gunman was sent to prison for ‘only’ three years for owning a gun for self-protection?
Seems so. Blackstone’s Criminal Practice Bulletin (April, 2006) tells us what is happening:
"The Firearms Act is unique in setting a minimum sentence for the first, rather than a repeat offence … and in allowing no reduction in sentence for a plea of guilty, no matter how timely that plea may have been."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at thecommentator.com ...
It’s England... and our own Lib’s want us just as disarmed and fearful as the “formerly dominant” citizenry of Jolly old England.
By delegating authority to the government to provide for my safety, I don't relinquish my own authority or responsibility for my safety.
We've deputized the government to protect us, but when it's all said and done, each one of us is the ultimate person responsible for our own safety.
apostrophe alert:
our own Libs, not our own Lib’s.
That is American Exceptionalism: our constitution does not give us our rights, it gives the government it’s powers.
There’s no other system like that in the world. All other countries have systems based on feudalist principles, moderated to more or less extent.
If I had to live in panty waist land, (AKA England) I would make a really good zip gun. Then if I ever had to use it, I would dismantle it after the fact and burn all the pieces.
And then I would shut up.
“Wuzn’t me, you got no proof. Nobody saw nuthin. You got no witness. I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, you got nuthin.”
“It was probably some black or white guy named Corsey happened along and that’s all there was to that!”
Trouble with Brits is that, just like Japanese, they get all introspective and then rat themselves out.
Never could understand the mentality.
Ahhh, finally caught by the grammar patrol. It’s a new first for me, I’ll print this out and post it on my wall to remind me forever.
Thank you, Thank you!
HeeHeeHeeHee,
Hey, Ka Bumpo! Hang onto your shirt friend, the anti spelling-nazis are going to get you!
LOL
Can see the posts now: “Whatzit madder? HUH? HUH? You thinc u r bedder then me?
U new wot I ment, so whatzit madder? Arrigint bustard!!”
If I reach into my archive of rejoinders from when I expressed pain and grief over the state of what passes for good English, I could write a novel!
OTH, keep up the good work, because I KNOW it p!$$es off the lazies to no end.
LOL.
We learned well from that experience what a tyrannical government can do and how to counter it.
Hey, Working Man,
That wasn’t a poke at you. Just making fun of all the folks with a public skool education.
What did that witness say? “Thass ol skool, weez new skool.”
Have a good weekend.
yep, that was a reference to the Jury, they haz they facts
Ungland...
It was a bald guy, someone called him "Curly", kinda chubby but rail thin.
Regarding the apostrophe alert: The poster may have used it to denote the contraction of the word liberals to lib’s, just like in the contraction can’t (cannot).
England. Is there a man in that place?
LOL, what?
Step away from the grammar textbook and come out with your hand’s up.
please some english person tell me again how everything’s hunky dory - ie “grand” - with your ability to own, possess and effectively use firearms in self defense.
they buried the last one this year. maggie thatcher.
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