Ungland...
Posted on 08/24/2011 5:35:23 PM PDT by max americana
Schoolchildren in London are eligible for 125,000 free tickets for the 2012 Olympics next Summer, but any event that involves a firearm will be excluded from the massive giveaway.
Why, you ask, would anyone choose to hide storied events and world class competitors from children’s eyes?
Because City Hall and Olympic Organizers are afraid of an anti-gun backlash. That’s right — the powers that be in London won’t subject kids to such bloodsports as Skeet and Trap shooting. The London Evening Standard reported yesterday on the “Ticketshare” decision, and the window it has given into current British views on guns in society.
In supporting the decision to discriminate against Olympic gun events, Danny Bryan, founder of Communities Against Gun and Knife Crime, told the Evening standard he agrees with London Mayor Boris Johnson, and that “It is good kids should enjoy the Games but there’s no way we should glorify guns.” Implicit in this anti-gun activist’s statement is the highly dubious connection between watching Olympic level marksmanship and crime.
The dwindling — and already besieged — U.K gun rights community is outraged, as are hopeful members of the shooting events. They want a reversal of the London Mayor’s decision because their sport is a world class, precision competition that upholds the highest Olympic standards.
Georgina Geikie, 26, a Commonwealth Games bronze medalist and Olympic pistol hopeful, told the Evening Standard she was “horrified,” that the event she has spent years training for was somehow considered inappropriate for children, and said:
“This is a chance for children to look at guns in a different way. They are taking away the opportunity for the sport to blossom. How do we educate people that it is a sport if they cannot watch it?”
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Probably soon to be replaced by a judge that says “Bang”! LOL
This is one of the reasons we fought a War aganist these idiots. Yes my kin from way bak can kiss my you know what.
Ungland...
The UK is finished.
No guns, no knives.
11 year old girls having kids.
Muzzie Infestation...
I’ll never go there again.
They’ll probably drop a 2 x 4 to make up the sound..
“Danny Bryan, founder of Communities Against Gun and Knife Crime, told the Evening standard he agrees with London Mayor Boris Johnson, and that “It is good kids should enjoy the Games but there’s no way we should glorify guns.” Implicit in this anti-gun activist’s statement is the highly dubious connection between watching Olympic level marksmanship and crime.”
Danny Brian must think it is a crime to use a gun in self defense. Considering the full title of his organization, he must be a complete pacisfist. I see know way around it. To him, it is better to die unarmed then it is to fight back.
Crazy Gun Touting Americans! Could you Imagine what could have happened to the Rioters if the Citizens would have had one of those?
Perish The Thought!
Not to worry - the tykes can have a ring side seat at the next riot
Plus they allowed their own cities to be burned 2 weeks ago. Wimps and more wimps for future generations.
They can sing kumbaya while their house burns down to the ground at the next riot.
Stinking Brits. Done for. Who cares. We `bloody Yanks’ will fight on. Some of us, anyway.
“Rule, Britannia”. Not bloody likely, mate.
Yes, create unmanly men—sissies who cower and hide from adversity and evil. NO CHURCHILLS in the making!!!!!!! Can’t have that!!!!...as if there will be an utopian society. Too bad some business owners in London weren’t able to defend their private property. Maybe they would have received a little more respect.
They take manly things away from the boys, and expose them to homosexuality and all sexual perversions which destroy their bodies and their relationships. Things that can actually save them and protect them and their families—they are not allowed even to look at.
Geeeesh....what perverts have control over the raising of the children in England. The worldview they are creating is absurd....that of complete slavery—to addictions and perversions.
or javelin throwing. It might impale someone..;)
It’s a pity. From this once great society where hunting was a noble pursuit to this. The days of driven hunts, skeet, gone, gone gone.
This is what happens when the liberals in cities decide whats right for the rural areas.
Look out. California wants all their electoral votes to go to the popular vote winner in the U.S.
Won’t be long till were in the same boat. Come and Get em boys.
An asteroid may have killed off the dinosaurs, but we’ll be killed off by stupidity.
The latest stupidity from .... the late (small g) great Britain.
Incomplete. I am outraged at his lentient views on the Olympic glorification of Spear Crime.
So glad I live in the States where we still have some rights.
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