“Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London; I’ll show you something that’ll make you change your mind.”
Thus sang Ralph McTell in his hauntingly-mournful song back in the 1970s. Modern-day London seems to be equally tragic:
London’s violent crime epidemic appears to show no sign of ending after another spate of brutal violence gripped the capital.
- Man, 45, arrested on suspicion of murder 2.32am after woman, 28, [stabbed to death] in Brent
- At 8.34pm, officers were called to Brent where man was shot with ‘machine gun’
- Police were called to Deptford at 8.10pm where a 23-year-old man was stabbed
- Just over a mile away another man was stabbed in Brent at around 10.20pm
- At 3.36am a 27-year-old man was arrested in Old Kent Road after a third stabbing
Of course, the “machine gun” description will turn out to be false; after all, machine-guns are banned in Britishland so that’s just not possible.
Then again, we have this little incident:
Follow the link for the full story. Good grief. I’m all for carrying knives on one’s person — I have two in my pockets as we speak — but sheesh… that’s a little (shall we say) aggressive.
I know that Dallas isn’t London (thank goodness), but I can’t help but think that people like our angry cyclist might be a little more restrained if they suspected that the guy in the car might be packing a .357 revolver… just a thought.
“I can’t help but think that people like our angry cyclist might be a little more restrained if they suspected that the guy in the car might be packing a .357 revolver”
Or even something with a longer reach. My last car was a minivan and I kept a small hydraulic jack in it. The jack came with a thick-walled pipe more than a foot long as a jack handle. I suspect even someone with a 10″ knife would think twice about wanting to tangle with someone with that.
An assault pipe? BAN IT!
Relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHX5jsomq_U&app=desktop
The US is a few years behind (formerly) Great Britain. If the progressives have their way we will soon be disarmed. We will be deeply mired in politically correct behavior, unable to protect ourselves from an increasingly large feral population of criminals on one side and soft headed government bureaucrats on the other. I know, redundancy alert.
> The US is a few years behind (formerly) Great Britain.
We are *decades* behind Great Britain.
> If the progressives have their way we will soon be disarmed.
If a bull dog had a hip pocket he’d carry a nickel plated .45.
“We” (gun owners) have been *winning* more than loosing since 1994.
We have gone from *8* “shall issue” states with 1 “constitutional carry” state and 16 “no issue states” in 1986 to 11 “constitutional carry” states, only 8 “may issue” states and no “no issue” states.
The AWB–the last *big* loss–sunsetted and even during the 2 years that the Dems had a majority in both houses and owned the presidency there NO serious anti gun bills that made it to the floor, much less passed from one house to the next.
Yeah, we’ve had some losses in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and California continues to suck, but on the whole gun rights in this country are going in the right direction.
Hell, they were at least TALKING about taking suppressors off the class III list.
No, we’re not even trending that direction. There’s a lot of smoke and noise about it, and yes, democrat politicians would like to leave us unarmed against their mobs, but we KNOW that, and it’s not going to happen.
As near as I can tell, the gungrabbers are desperately trying to keep things pinned on the ‘evil guns’ and the NRA.
Parkland was bad, but it damn near blew up in their faces when the full story of local, state, and federal malfeasance came to light. If they hadn’t had willing media whores helping paint the narrative, it would’ve wrecked them.
And while David Hogg and his Hoggettes have managed to throw some remarkable temper tantrums… he’s no more effective than Shannon Watts and Moms Demand Attention.