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 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$!
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.
Yes, all knives of any kind and table forks and canes need to be outlawed. That way the outlaws with guns will have absolutley nothing to fear.
Just like the Soviet Union. People who want freedom are "mentally ill."
“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.”
Sadly, this would be a major improvement over where I live on Long Island. The UK process sounds similar, but our wait here is around 6 months. (Howver, the gang members down the street can get their guns in record time...)
I choose door # 2.
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.” - William S. Burroughs