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Showing posts with label london. Show all posts
  • Terror Sadly, growing up in Britain during 'the troubles,' my generation is no stranger to terrorism.

    Back in the day, it was a regular occurrence to see news reports of bombs going off in shopping centres or city streets. The IRA had a pretty good structure behind it - murdering civilians over in the UK, while simultaneously presenting a whiter-than-white facade to their American financial backers.

    It's still a common misconception in New York that the IRA never targeted non-military targets. If only that had been true.

    But if 9/11 had any benefit - which of course it didn't - it was in ending the IRA's reign of murder and terror. Now that America had been introduced to the realities of terrorism, it was no longer a legitimate political tool. New Yorkers who might once have slipped five bucks into a tin to support 'the boys back home' had woken up to what their money was paying for.

    Sadly, as the events of the last few days have reminded us, the end of the IRA has not led to an end to terrorism in Britain. True Islamic Fundamentalism - the stuff behind murder and mayhem for decades in the Middle East - has arrived in force in the UK. While the methods, organisation and objectives of the new millenium's terrorists may be different - the consequences seem to be the same.

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  • Reducing Gun Crime by Banning Fake Guns Replica gun law 'may be speeded up'
    Monday February 19, 01:30 PM
    The implementation of a new law banning the manufacture of replica guns could be brought forward in the wake of a spate of fatal shootings, Home Secretary John Reid said. Full story here.
    This has to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard for a long time.
    After a spate of brutal shootings in London, the Home Secretary decides to target - you guessed it - replica guns.
    Now let me just fill you in on a little fact about replica guns. They aren't real. They don't shoot bullets. In fact, all they do is look like real guns.
    No, I'm not saying replica guns are perfectly fine things to own. I'm well aware of the fact that people commit robberies with them and police accidentally shoot suspects who are holding them.
    But the fact remains. Since the invention of the replica gun, the worldwide death toll from replica-gun inflicted deaths has remained at 0.
    Replica guns can't kill anybody.
    So when the Home Secretary is faced with a very REAL and very DANGEROUS problem of gun crime in London, it seems a pointless exercise to focus on replica guns. It seems almost like a knee-jerk reaction to a problem, intended to divert attention away from the real issue and make it look like the government's DOING something.
    What I have to ask is: How stupid does John Reid think we are?

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