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Judges release pellet gun teacher
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| 05/04/05
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Posted on 05/04/2005 10:42:29 AM PDT by David Hunter
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Finally the British judiciary do something sensible. Enforcing a minimum imprisonment sentencing policy against anyone 'possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence', (regardless of their specific circumstances), is outrageous. Check
this out for more details of this case.
To: David Hunter
during a row with youths
HUH????
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posted on
05/04/2005 10:44:38 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
To: Paleo Conservative; Sparta; Shooter 2.5; At _War_With_Liberals; Dog Gone; Still Thinking; ...
To: David Hunter
Let's face it, the battle for Britain is lost.
The sane should flee the country, before that is outlawed.
To: OXENinFLA
Does row, (pronounced rou), not also mean an angry quarrel in the USA?
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Let's face it, the battle for Britain is lost. The sane should flee the country, before that is outlawed There's nothing wrong with Britian that couldn't fixed with several hundred feet of rope and all the lamp posts in London.
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posted on
05/04/2005 10:54:27 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: David Hunter
Does row, (pronounced rou), not also mean an angry quarrel in the USA? Its considered archaic here and not commonly used. I hear it pretty frequently on the Beeb.
I'm still trying to figure out where the Y is in China and the CH is in Tuesday.
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posted on
05/04/2005 10:56:12 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: David Hunter
Has the state of English law, not to mention the English language, deteriorated to the point that an air rifle is now a
firearm?
You've got to be pulling my charging handle.
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posted on
05/04/2005 10:56:47 AM PDT
by
LTCJ
To: David Hunter
Hey, she was convicted of affray! She should have gotten life!!
What the heck is affray?
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posted on
05/04/2005 10:58:55 AM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not everything that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
NO....they should pay attention to how their relatives, who fled from there, over 200 years ago dealt with injustice from one of their own kings; George was his first name I believe.
To: David Hunter
He added: "I urge police chiefs to ensure that more officers are put on the beat and that effective action is taken against offenders when victims report crime." Only here it's the folks trying to protect whats theirs who are the offenders and the suspects who are the victims. There is no indication here things would have been any different if she had better evidence against the punks she confronted. Additional officers wouldn't matter a whit. Craziness. You be careful.
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posted on
05/04/2005 11:02:27 AM PDT
by
Horatio Gates
(If the thought of Hillary as prez doesn't make your skin crawl, it's on too tight.)
To: David Hunter
I have two operating principles in life...
1) Very few problems can't be solved with a pellet gun.
Examples: neighbor's dog barking at night? Giving a presentation and one of the audience continously asks stupid questions?
2) Those problems that can't be solved with a pellet gun are very likely to be solved with duct-tape.
Examples: neighbor's kids making too much noise? Wife complains too much?
To: David Hunter
Does row, (pronounced rou), not also mean an angry quarrel in the USA? Yes, it does and I knew by the context that it meant she got into an argument. I just couldn't pass up the chance to toss in some sarcasm.
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posted on
05/04/2005 11:04:10 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
To: LTCJ
Has the state of English law, not to mention the English language, deteriorated to the point that an air rifle is now a firearm?I quite agree. Unfortunately, when the British government included air rifles with power ratings over 12 ftlbs and air pistols over 6 ftlbs in the Firearms Act 1968 in order to license their owners, they created a logical argument for the Courts and Police to use to insist that lower powered airguns were also firearms. We are now left with a situation where, in the eyes of UK law, even a child's plastic airsoft pistol is a "firearm".
To: David Hunter
Methinks OXEN was just being funny.
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posted on
05/04/2005 11:07:24 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
To: LTCJ
Has the state of English law, not to mention the English language, deteriorated to the point that an air rifle is now a firearm?Well, there are some here that think a water-pistol is a firearm.
(shaking head and rolling eyes)
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posted on
05/04/2005 11:09:33 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
To: Mind-numbed Robot
To: OXENinFLA
Yes, it does and I knew by the context that it meant she got into an argument. I just couldn't pass up the chance to toss in some sarcasm.I knew you were just goofing. Tho sum around here have no cents of humor. Most of us due, sin's that is Y we hav sow much funn.
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posted on
05/04/2005 11:13:41 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
To: Cobra64
Yes, I thought OX was just being amusing, but not having an American's understanding of contemporary American English usage in the USA then I couldn't be sure.
To: David Hunter
Pretty ironic that the Brits have done to their own country what Hitler couldn't do.
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