Can’t say I have anything against this statement:
Bring Back Firing Squads, Says Frustrated Prosecutor
Feel free to debate the optimal caliber for the job in Comments.
Category: Crime
Only Just Good Enough
My only quibble with this story is that the goblin wasn’t dead at the end of it.
An employee of a gas station in the 200 block of West Camp Wisdom Road, near the border with Duncanville, alerted the mother about 10 p.m. that a man was trying to get into her SUV.
She jumped into the vehicle. When the man didn’t stop, she pulled a gun from the glove box and shot him in the head, police said.
The vehicle then crashed into a utility pole.
So far, so good. But the goblin didn’t croak, because:
“I should have just have emptied the whole clip but I didn’t. I didn’t. I just wanted to give him a warning shot that was it.”
I can’t criticize Our Heroine too much, because she stopped the danger to her kids, and that’s all that matters. However, I just hope that the thing ends here, with the choirboy in jail for a long time — too long to come after the woman when he gets out, or too old to try this again with someone else.
Sometimes, you see, it’s better to end the thing properly, even if you aren’t a killer.
News Roundup
Today will be snippets of news that are guaranteed to make your eyes squint and Red Curtains Of Blood (RCOB) affect your vision. The fact that most of the items happened in Britishland makes no difference whatsoever. You have been warned.
1) “Help! My Mum’s been stabbed!”
2) “Give us your stuff or we’ll chop up your babies!”
3) Gun ban in the U.K. is still effective
4) #74
6) “You think you Brits are the only ones who can go crazy with a knife? Banzai! ”
7) And lastly, just so we know that the rozzers are going after the serious criminals, there’s this one:
Tearful pensioner, 79, slams police for ‘threatening to prosecute her for feeding her neighbour’s pet’
8) Or maybe they can go after this kid’s parents, for giving him a toy gun to play with.
Now you can all go off and clean yer guns. I know I will.
Assault Weapons
Wow… even I’m impressed by the weapons being used by the criminals in London as the crime (tidal) wave continues:
Clearly, banning the things won’t do any good, just as banning guns hasn’t worked too well.
And the violence is no longer confined to the scuzzy areas of London and the other cities; I saw from a pic in another article that one of the attacks took place where I took a stroll in London just a few months ago.
I’ve been racking my brain for some kind of solution to this — seriously, I have — and the more I look at it, there are only a few solutions:
- Flood the streets with cops — but the Brits don’t have enough cops.
- Allow the citizens to arm themselves — like that’s going to happen.
- Reinstate the death penalty (especially for scum who do things like this) and get serious about executing dangerous / murderous criminals — that ain’t gonna happen either.
- When (if) they catch the criminals, deport them to a penal colony (like France’s old Devil’s Island of Papillon fame) — wait a minute, that has promise, because if any country in the world owns a bunch of uninhabited, remote islands, it would be the Brits. Granted, it would take a few years to build the accommodations, but we’re talking concrete cellblocks, not the Ritz. And it’s not like they haven’t done it before (hello, Australia!) so there is precedent. (Escape from New York is starting to look less like a dystopian fantasy and more like a blueprint, isn’t it?)
Sadly, though, the Brits don’t seem to have the balls to do any of the above. Utter chaos is coming, if it isn’t there already. What a mess. (Although the Britcops seem to have no difficulty in dealing with hardened criminals like this bad boy…)
If anyone has any bright ideas different to mine, feel free to share them — and I’m not talking fantasies (I can assemble a few of those all by myself); I need workable solutions, because the Brits seem to be at a loss.
Not Working
Here’s an interesting little snippet:
Britain is in the grip of a violent crime wave as thugs run riot on mopeds and motorbikes. Shocking figures released yesterday show the armed thieves are striking more than 60 times every day. In a chilling illustration of the crisis, a young woman was fighting for her life last night after her mobile was snatched by moped-riding thieves. And a motorcycle gang targeted yet another luxury store in London on Tuesday. In Birmingham, a masked gang rammed a car in broad daylight before smashing the driver’s window with a machete and hammer. And masked attackers targeted Michael McIntyre when they stole his £15,000 Rolex.
So, my British friends: how’s that “no handguns in private ownership” thing working out for you, then?
And for all those idiots who start wailing about the horrors of “pitched gun battles in the streets”, allow me to ask how that’s so much different from what’s happening to you now? Other than the fact that almost all the victims are innocent people, not criminals?
I wonder why we don’t have the “moped-gang” problem in Texas. Oh yeah, that’s right: we carry guns, and the bad guys know it. And as a bonus, we don’t have pitched gun battles in the streets — except of course when the criminals start having wars over drug turf in their own neighborhoods, which doesn’t count because it’s a self-canceling problem.
We certainly don’t have mass stabbings in our streets, because — oh wait! we carry guns, and the bad guys know it. (And yes: I know the latter story comes out of Australia. Where they too aren’t allowed to own handguns.)
Strange how that all works out.
Streets Of London
“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.