on the subject of gun control, he is an idiot!
Posted on 06/03/2010 8:23:26 AM PDT by relictele
Britain's gun laws need a complete overhaul
BRITAIN’S gun laws need a complete overhaul in the wake of the shootings, a military hero said yesterday.
Doug Beattie, who won the Military Cross in Afghanistan, called for gun owners to undergo an annual psychological assessment.
He said: “There should be a fundamental look at the ownership of any weapons. I do not see any requirement for gun ownership except for specific businesses.
“Sporting guns should be held in a centralised location, such as a sporting club. Anyone who does have a gun should have a psychological assessment each year.”
In the UK, applicants for gun licences are interviewed by the police or firearms licensing authority before they acquire a weapon. Licence holders must provide doctors’ reports, disclose any criminal convictions and state why they want a gun, a process that takes about eight weeks.
It is not known if Derrick Bird held a licence. Nearly 600,000 people in the UK legally own a shotgun and 100,000 own a firearm – a rifle or pistol.
However, firearms expert Michael Yardley, who gave evidence to the inquiry into the Dunblane shootings, said that the same numbers own a shotgun or firearm illegally.
Simon Clarke, of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, said the UK’s licensing system was among the toughest in the world.
What is a bit sobering is to see a military veteran, who should know better, claim that banning weapons will eliminate them from society and that such a ban would have any effect on the black market and/or crazed killers.
One can only imagine the farcical, useless 'psychological assessment' put together by a lot of flaming socialists (regardless of whether they call themselves Tories, Lib Dem or Labour). It literally would be the modern day Thought Police conveniently located in George Orwell's home nation.
I note that one victim's life was taken as he bravely attempted to attack the gunman with a fencepost. Cheap jokes aside I wonder if his bravery would have been better served and rewarded via the availability and use of a handgun.
Punish the innocent anyway!
It's the Liberal way!
Gun laws, the tools of tyrants.
I wonder what an armed citizen would have done.
Didn’t they have a law prohibiting shooting people already?
on the subject of gun control, he is an idiot!
“...What is a bit sobering is to see a military veteran, who should know better, claim that banning weapons will eliminate them from society and that such a ban would have any effect on the black market...”
When the UK Mohammedans develop a system of logistics it could arm a whole class of criminal fanatics while law-abiding Brits stay helpless.
To bad Britian didn’t have this kind of gun control in 1776, if it had it would still control the ‘Colonies’. (sarc)
Just ban murder. Easy Peasy.
A guy named Bird has a "sporting shotgun".
He doesn't give folks a sporting chance.
Gov't fails to protect people from gunman.
Another example of gov't failure against possible Islamic Jihadism.
When seconds count, the Bobbies are just half hours away.
Conclusion? More gun control.
Brits are full fledged DUMBA$$E$!
Let Dads and Mums provide the "psychological assessments".
A completely predictable reaction and one that will almost certainly be acted upon to some degree. The subjects of the UK once were a free people but that condition is rapidly vanishing and once completely disarmed will come to an end altogether.
The British are really behind thev curve here; they should pass a law against murder, and all their problems would be solved.
Lock this idiot in a room with a crazed “gunman” and tell him he can have a gun too, but only after the government gets around to giving him his “psychological assessment”. Nothing beats stark reality to make people see things clearly.
Doug Beattie, who won the Military Cross in Afghanistan, called for gun owners to undergo an annual psychological assessment.
This statement supports FURTHER BIG-GOVERNMENT NANNY/POLICE-STATE INTRUSION (as if Mediocre Britain doesn't have enough already), and are the words, of a military "hero" who learned NOTHING from his service.
He is nothing more than an elitist, authoritarian, freedom-hating moron who would fill the bill perfectly if M.B. decided to go the DICTATORSHIP route.
“To bad Britian didn’t have this kind of gun control in 1776, if it had it would still control the ‘Colonies’.”
I’m sure you know, but for the lurkers..
Most of the first battles of our revolution were fought over munitions. The “shot heard round the world” at Lexington/Concorde was our rebels intercepting the redcoats on their way to confiscate a cache of weapons. The weapons were moved thanks to Paul Revere and those minute men. The British have been trying to ban “Freemen” from owning firearms for a long time. There is a reason the founders made it the second ammendment, and it ain’t about duck hunting.
My brother had an old Winchester .22 bolt action like the one shown.
It would fire when you closed the bolt on a round.
“...It would fire when you closed the bolt on a round.”
Controlling the direction of the muzzle is sure important when ya have a premature discharge.
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