Posted on 11/30/2002 5:36:43 PM PST by David Hunter
Mothers grieving over children killed in drug-fuelled gang wars have marched on Downing Street to vent their fury and demand tough new laws. As if to underline the point, just hours before the march set off from south London's troubled borough of Peckham, a man was shot dead in a local pub and another was in a critical condition having been shot in the neck, police said. The two victims, both black, were the latest in a string of "black-on-black" shootings, which have forced London's police to launch a dedicated unit, Operation Trident.
Lucy Cope, whose son Damian, 22, was shot dead outside a nightclub in London's West End in July, told Reuters: "The police are doing all they can -- they've set up Operation Trident and everything -- but the law is no deterrent." She said the 10-year maximum sentence for gun possession should be changed to a 10-year minimum sentence.
Peckham is one of several areas of the capital where rival gangs are battling for control of the lucrative trades in cocaine and its highly addictive derivative crack. Peckham's run-down estates hit the headlines two years ago with the murder of 10-year-old Nigerian schoolboy Damilola Taylor, who bled to death in a stairwell from a stab wound soon after he moved to London.
Superintendent Ed Bateman of the local Southwark Police said he supported the march and pledged to "close down crack houses, which are often the seat and focus of illegally held and used firearms".
Protest organiser Althea Smith said gun crime in the capital was not just black-on-black. "In London, a lot (of shootings) are Yardie or drug-related, but we've also recently seen the Turkish gangs fighting in Haringey," she said. "When someone is killed, it's not just one person that is affected, but the whole community," she added.
The march was expected to number over a thousand, and six mothers of children shot dead on London streets were to carry a petition calling for tougher sentencing to Downing Street.
And the majority of Brits are oblivious to this disturbing equation?
What you need matey is a politician who advocates gun racks on the back of your vehicles which "advertise" a willingness to defend yourself. Though I don't live there, I hear it seems to work well in Texas...
Unfortunately, I believe they are. I've never come across any British politician, and very few citizens, who advocate introducing CCW here. The egregiously biased BBC never discuss the benefits of CCW in the USA and instead they only put forward the gun-grabbers' emotional "save the children" arguments. The term "Ministry of Propaganda" could be accurately applied to the BBC.
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22-year-old "children"?!
As the old saying goes, "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
Here are "grieving Mums" complaining that thier offspring where viciously mowed down by "drug dealers" and "gangs." Look who the innocent offspring are hanging out with...I guess this minor point is worth overlooking when it comes to heartless, self-shooting, maniacle "GUNS."
Yep...CATO is very cautious about their image (since libertarianism seems to attact loonies) and I've haven't heard much out of them on 2nd Amendment issues until now.
I'm pleased and will be doubling my level of support.
All they ask is $100 the first year, 500 the second and $1000 every year after that.
I never really thought about it in those terms. I think that such a correlation is worth a good study. I think you have hit on something very interesting.
The Metropolitan Police would consider a victim who was fighting back to be an assailant, hence muggers tend to mug with impunity. I recently read about an American woman who was mugged by two men in London and fought back with her penknife. Apparently, she was prosecuted for assault and actual bodily harm.
Everywhere in London there are posters warning the 'sheep' to watch their bags and belonging, but none warning the miscreants of the consequences of their actions.
What consequences do most muggers and thieves have to worry about anyway? I recently heard about a sneak thief at Heathrow airport who had been convicted of 40 robberies and was suspected of doing at least another 40, but had only received 200 hours of community service!
Things were better outside of London, but the thoughtcrime posters are everywhere.
My favourite posters are those from the railway companies which say something like: "safe below the watchful eyes" or some such nonsense, (referring to the many new video cameras in railway stations). They remind me of the telescreen mentality in Orwell's 1984, its all for the citizens' safety you know. The fact that is has been proved that video cameras don't deter crime, but just displace it, is merely an inconvenient fact to the totalitarian cretins in the British government.
Isn't multi-cultural living fun?
No, its not just your imagination, the cretins at the Beeb really think the government can solve all society's problems. They suffer from advanced necrosis of the brain you know.
which makes them nationalistic collectivists, which makes them militant Leftists.
One of the biggest scams the Left has been able to pull off was the redefinition of fascism as "a far-right-wing dictatorial form of government" despite the obvious facts to the contrary.
The Goebbels-inspired BBC is however, in support of a few anarchists terrorizing ALL of an unarmed UK including "the children??" The easy solution: A sudden CCW policy which may result in a few "incidents" at it's inception, but then soon after everyone would be on their best behavior ;-)
I know this is rhetorical as well, but at what point of violence do the British "sheeple" realize common sense should supercede hair-brained liberal idealism?
You certainly have your work cut out for you Mate...
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