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Gun crime: Labour 'losing control'
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Posted on 01/29/2007 12:45:40 PM PST by TC Rider
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This must be a fantasy article because we all know that the UK is a paradise with no evil guns.
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:45:41 PM PST
by
TC Rider
To: TC Rider
"We have some of the toughest firearm legislation in Europe."Well, criminals aren't at risk from legally armed citizens, anyway...
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:52:21 PM PST
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
To: TC Rider
Simple solutions:
- Encourage law abiding citizens to arm and pay them bounty for every perp bagged.
- Revive the death penalty under Scottish law for hamesucken.
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:52:34 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: GoldCountryRedneck
"We have some of the toughest firearm legislation in Europe."So, obviously, the answer is MORE GUN CONTROL.
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:54:28 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(You are not your mind. You are not your emotions. You are not your pain. All you are is love.)
To: TC Rider
Morons, absolute morons...........
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:55:20 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
To: TC Rider
Labour has been accused of losing control of gun crime... That implies that government had control of it in the first place.
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:55:37 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Lazamataz
Those crooks in the UK must be getting their guns from VA, NC and Georgia!!!
Paging Mikey Bloomberg!
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:55:45 PM PST
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: TC Rider
It must be a failing in the educational system. Nobody in a position of power can comprehend the simple results of gun control. A common bumper sticker sums it up nicely, "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". The socialist solution will be more anti-gun laws, more government, more armed agents of the government. The correct solution is freedom. Freedom of individuals to keep and bear arms. Prosecute and incarcerate the minority of persons who would employ a firearm for other than self defense from life threatening physical assault.
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:55:46 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: TC Rider
There was also a rapid and unexplained increase in the number of times householders were confronted in their own homes by armed criminal.>Well, gezzz, Louise! OK, Brit liberals, here in the USA there is a Internet group called Free Republic and every member can explain the hows and whys to you guys.
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:56:02 PM PST
by
oyez
( My karma ran over your dogma.)
To: TC Rider
Fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity . - Sigmund Freud
Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.) - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD)
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants;
they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.
- Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:57:13 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: TC Rider
There was also a rapid and unexplained increase in the number of times householders were confronted in their own homes by armed criminals. I can explain it. It's because the crooks know the householders probably aren't armed.
To: oyez
Unfortunately, every member may not always format his posts properly.
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posted on
01/29/2007 12:59:21 PM PST
by
oyez
( My karma ran over your dogma.)
To: SamuraiScot
I can explain it. It's because the crooks know the householders probably aren't armed.It is also a consequence of prosecuting householders for defending themselves from the perpetrators of home invasion robberies. The crooks know the householders are not armed and dare not fight back for fear of being prosecuted themselves. The inmates are running the asylum.
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posted on
01/29/2007 1:01:53 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: TC Rider
Criminals don't comply with gun laws?? Can't be.
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posted on
01/29/2007 1:01:53 PM PST
by
vetsvette
(Bring Him Back)
To: TC Rider
This is what happens when a regime seizes guns from law-abiding citizens. Only the crooks have guns. The law-abiding people can't defend themselves.
Rule #1 of survival, that all animals and humans must obey: protect your own existence. Since the liberal regime is preventing humans from saving their own existence, the liberal regime is violating a fundamental law of animal and human nature.
And I don't expect them to understand what I just said.
To: Lazamataz
Exactly. I've noticed that when liberal laws fail, as they inevitably do, liberals call for more of the same laws that failed.
To: TC Rider
"Gun crime is mainly fuelled by gang warfare and drug addiction, which is a consequence of Labour's failing drugs policy. It is exacerbated by our porous borders, which allow illegal weapons to flow into the country."Here's a fun exercise. How many false statements can you find in this quote?
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Only the crooks have guns Don't you know the liberal law makers know this? When the new gun law fails and new law will be written that forces the law abiding deeper into hiding. And the politicians will tell them how fortunate they are.
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posted on
01/29/2007 1:33:47 PM PST
by
oyez
( My karma ran over your dogma.)
To: TC Rider
So how's that banning gun thingy working out ??? Really helped reduce crime didn't it ... you bunch of friggin idiots
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posted on
01/29/2007 1:41:53 PM PST
by
clamper1797
(Per caritate viduaribus orphanibusque sed prime viduaribus)
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged; All
"This is what happens when a regime seizes guns from law-abiding citizens. Only the crooks have guns. The law-abiding people can't defend themselves."
Can we get this straight? I'm not defending our gun laws (my handguns were made illegal 10 years ago), but shotguns and rifles are very much legal, albeit tightly controlled.
Just for the record.
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posted on
01/29/2007 1:46:08 PM PST
by
Mac1
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