Make my day, sir, shoot a hoodie

Times Online ^ | 12/05/07 | Jeremy Clarkson

[Gorzaloon]

About time.

[Little Ray]

Well, as they say, a Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged... or "happy slapped."
Jeremy Clarkson for Parliament?

[sauropod]

Every single time one of these children is found stabbed or shot, his mum and stepdad always tell the papers he was a “good lad”. And that he “didn’t deserve to die”.

"No thugs in our house, are there dear?" /XTC

[AnAmericanMother]

The problem is, the little darlings KNOW that no adult can do a thing to them.

The unspoken rule around here is that if you jump somebody, you just may get the bejazus kicked out of you . . . or you may even catch a bad case of acute lead poisoning.

So it's the thugs doing the worrying, not the honest citizen worrying that he may get prosecuted for slapping one of them upside the head.

[G Larry]

The schools won’t suspend or expel the troublemakers because the schools get paid based upon attendance.

[Truth29]

A new
PSA - “Shoot a Hoodie a Day” Sorta like take our daily vitamins. sarc? Seriously, I wonder if the author in Britain is going to get in trouble for the title.

[OKSooner]

FWIW, I once worked in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a guy who had been a bobby in London. According to him, the bobbies (sp?) were in the practice of beating the crap out of juvenile offenders inside the jail house.

His position was that they didn't need to get the crap beaten out of them, they needed to meet The Lord.

So, he quit the bobby force and moved to Tulsa to attend Rhema Bible College.

Last I heard of the guy he was running a Prison Ministry in Oklahoma.

This article just reminded me of the guy.

[DeaconBenjamin]

His position was that they didn't need to get the crap beaten out of them, they needed to meet The Lord.

Until you mentioned the Bible College, I assumed you meant he was going to facilitate a visit sooner rather than later, in a manner that did not involve evangelism.

[ClearCase_guy]

Everyone should carry a weapon. An armed society is a polite society.

I predict that a return to vigilante justice is just around the corner.

The courts won't solve the problem.
The cops won;t solve the problem.
The schools won't solve the problem.
The parents won't solve the problem.

Perhaps the public will decide to solve the problem.

[papertyger]

Vigilante justice is no longer possible in the United States. We are so socially balkanized the closest thing possible is tribalism.

[kalee]

Happily I think I have a solution...We can’t rely on the police either – not without unpicking every single thing done by new Labour in the past 10 years. UNOPICKING LABOR POLICIES WOULD BE A GOOD START!!! The only place where this issue can be tackled, then, is at school. So you fit airport-style metal detectors at the doors to ensure no pupil is packing heat, you put all the troublemakers in one class and you give the teacher in charge immunity from criminal charges. And a sub-machinegun. "IT TAKES A VILLAGE" AND THROWING MORE MONEY AT FAILED SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND TOO, HUH? AT LEAST HE ALLOWS THE TEACHERS TO PACK PROTECTION.

[Constitution Day]

Every single time one of these children is found stabbed or shot, his mum and stepdad always tell the papers he was a “good lad”. And that he “didn’t deserve to die”.

Johnny was bad, even as a child everybody could tell
Everyone said if you don't get straight
You'll surely go to hell

But Johnny didn't care
He was an outlaw by the time that he was
Ten years old
He didn't wanna do what he was told
Just a prankster, juvenile gangster

His teachers didn't understand
They kicked him out of school
At a tender early age
Just because he didn't want to learn things
(Had other interests)
He liked to burn things

The lady down the block
She had a radio that Johnny wanted oh so bad
So he took it the first chance he had
Then he shot her in the leg
And this is what she said
Only a lad
You really can't blame him
Only a lad
Society made him
Only a lad
He's our responsibility
Only a lad
He really couldn't help it
Only a lad
He didn't want to do it
Only a lad
He's underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused...

[FreedomPoster]

You weren’t the only one.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy

He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette’s leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy

He took little Susie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
and he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the Home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy

[SnarlinCubBear]

Lovin it myself.

[RockinRight]

Leave my wife alone!

[Malsua]

Were they at the Milk bar prior?

Perhaps they wanted a bit of the ole in out.

[Redleg Duke]

"The only place where this issue can be tackled, then, is at school. So you fit airport-style metal detectors at the doors to ensure no pupil is packing heat, you put all the troublemakers in one class and you give the teacher in charge immunity from criminal charges. And a sub-machinegun."

You know, often, the simplest solutions are the most elegant!

[Tijeras_Slim]

No happyslapping for you!