Your guns are 'too violent' for Remembrance Day, mayor tells rifle regiment

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 9th November 2007

[tired1]

Miss Beach, the Labour mayor of Chepstow in Monmouthshire, said: "I would prefer for there not be any guns at the parade - and raised it because it is an issue I personally feel very strongly about.

"I am very much against guns and think they are awful things. Killing in any war is awful and I am against this violence.

[tired1]

UK woman mayor's tribute to a Rifle Regiment: no guns!

[Steely Tom]

I don’t think this lady is quite up to speed on the concept of a “remembrance day.”

[MNJohnnie]

Does this moron have any idea what Remembrance Day is about?

That it, Western Civilization is finished. Turn out the lights , it had a nice run but has become to in bred, to intellectually exhausted to survive.

[G Larry]

What does she think?

Playing ‘patti-cake’ and sharing your cookies prevent terrorism and war?

[spanalot]

Good citizens sleep peacefully because rough men stand ready in the night....

(or something like that).

[rockabyebaby]

Just when you thought people could not get any stooooopider........

[LRS]

Could they use pointed sticks (with corks on them)...

[relictele]

"I am very much against guns and think they are awful things. Killing in any war is awful and I am against this violence.

Where was this visionary during WWII? Should have just let the Nazis carry on - no sense interrupting those orderly death camps.

[rottndog]

“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” - credited to George Orwell

[nuconvert]

Lol. Hey, people voted for this ninny.

[Turret Gunner A20]

PUKE

[goldstategop]

Idiot liberals like that woman will get us all killed.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[LibFreeOrDie]

The end of the article notes another stupid ban that riled some Brits. Poppy wreaths were banned from a mountaintop Remembrance Day service (an annual event for almost 90 years), because the local hiking club doesn’t want to clean up the “disintegrated, soggy poppy waste.”

[Enterprise]

"Killing in any war is awful and I am against this violence."

Well, I suppose so. There are any number of examples of people who deserved killing though.

One story I remember from the History Channel was told by an American fighter pilot from WWII. He was in a battle and noticed that a German pilot was killing American pilots who were parachuting after their planes were damaged. So he got behind this guy and picked at him and picked at him and forced him to bail out. Then he shot him. I thought, good! He deserved it!

[spanalot]

“credited to George Orwell”

but never confirmed? In any case, he should have said it.

[oyez]

Western Civilization is finished

If we can't have guns we will have to live under someone else's gun.

[VOA]

UK woman mayor's tribute to a Rifle Regiment: no guns!

If she's not gay, some reporter should ask her if she only
dates men that "shoot blanks".

[goldstategop]

Pacifism, as George Orwell understood correctly, is to enable the triumph of totalitarianism by default. The truth is war does settle things quite nicely when the good guys have the will to win it decisively.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[VOA]

So he got behind this guy and picked at him and picked at him
and forced him to bail out. Then he shot him.

That's a pity. Seeing how .50 cal BMGs were the American standard.
And the b@$tard didn't suffer nearly as long as he deserved.

[uglybiker]

What does she think?

There. Fixed it for ya.