Guns Don’t Kill People…
Firstly, TheEye would like to apologise for a lengthy absence from the blog. Life has taken a temporary sidestep into madness and nonsense. There’s light at the end of the tunnel at least. This long weekend isn’t it, but a few days of respite have arrived.
In the meantime, my very grateful thanks to my friend Max Farquar for keeping you entertained here for the last few weeks. I am deeply in his debt.
And to stay on the subject of madness, consider this further step in Britain’s well documented spiral into collective doom:
Children will be banned from watching shooting events under Boris Johnson’s Olympic ticket giveaway.
London schoolchildren are eligible for 125,000 Olympic tickets but these will not include any featuring guns, as Games organisers and City Hall fear a backlash from the anti-gun lobby.
Giving children tickets to the events, at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, could have appeared at odds with Mayor Boris Johnson’s bid to quell teenage gun and knife crime.
Er, because our gun-control mania worked so well stopping the recent riots?
In the recent trouble, TheEye would have liked to have seen riot control done with longbows. A pile of looter corpses with arrow shafts lodged in them whilst police on horseback charged the rest…it’d be Agincourt or Crecy all over again.
“Remember kids, bows and arrows don’t kill people; Olympic archers do!”
I think if I were a member of the GB Olympic Shooting Team, I’d be looking at pulling out of the Games at the last minute & persuading as many other team-mates as possible to do likewise ..
Citing the ludicrous knee-jerk impediments which have been put in the way of perfectly legal & responsible competitive shooting in the UK, as my reasons for doing so ..
Whilst the numbers of illegally held & used firearms seems to be on the increase ..
Let the politicians blush & fart their way out of that embarrassment ..
On a more personal note, Eye .. I hope your present difficulties will soon be resolved ..
Holy crap on toast what kind of PC bullshit is that.
You know they tried that back inn Texas in the 1800 and look what happened to them. In Texas you get a colt 45 in primary school, trust me I have been there….
Cheers, Sausage.
Good points, and when they pull out then the wrestling, boxing, judo, javelin, shot-putt teams should be leaving with them…as they are all equally guilty of causing the riots.
Another thought occurs – for all the events that children are allowed to watch, will every competitor get a Gold medal? Can’t have the little darlings thinking that some people are shock horror not as good at something as others.
And thanks for the final comment CH, I appreciate it. The annoying stuff should be sorted out fairly soon, all being well.
And its precisely because we were stupid enough as to permit the adoption, by some UK residents, of that part of American culture ..
Allied to the natural predisposition towards violence, by the inhabitants (and their descendants) of a particular island in the West Indies, that we find ourselves in our current position ..
Historically, Britain has never, by & large had a gun/drug culture .. They have been directly copied from the American “gang” & “gangsta” role-models ..
Thanks for nothing USA .. 🙁
I would just like to say, people blame the USA for the Gangster persona. Do a little historical homework before you point the finger. I’m not saying that I am proud of everything that the US has done, there are plenty of things that i disagree with. But, if you would look back, Gangsters have been around for a LONG TIME. And it didn’t originate in USA. Try Italy, Ireland, Russia, and Mexico. Those law breaking ideals were brought here by imigrants and they were somehow adopted by the other cultures already here.
The only “gangsters” that were nativaly in the US, were wild west cowboys. And many of those people, were fighting injustice and cotuptness!
When I mentioned “Gangstas” (note the alternative spelling) .. I wasn’t referring to the Mafia etc ..
I was referring to the street gangs of New York, Los Angleles & other large US cities .. who all wear/wore Baseball caps (not an item of traditional UK dress) .. long shorts, massively over-large trainers etc .. and speak in a language indecipherable to most normal human beings ..
These “trade marks” have been slavishly copied by the “Gangsta” wannabees in the UK ..
The other factor which unties the two types of “Gangsta” is that they all stem from the same demographic ..
But it’s okay for them to watch violent movies and act out violence in video games. Do we need any further proof that leftist thought is a mental disorder?
Welcome back ASE.
“Children will be banned from watching shooting events under Boris Johnson’s Olympic ticket giveaway.”
I just don’t care anymore, even if Boris wants to be such a useless tosser. I have few relatives and no children to share the barbarian future. If I were Nero I would fiddle while Rome burned.