The stabbing of a man in the London metro in what police described as a terrorist attack provoked a defiant riposte from a bystander that has struck a chord in Britain: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv".
The 29 year old assailant shouted "This is for Syria" as he attacked a 56 year old man and threatened others before being detained by police who used a stun gun, witnesses said.
I realize the people who were wounded likely consider it to have been serious and I am concerned for them. England has annual gun deaths in the hundreds, though. I'm sure the NRA would love to propagandize them into arming up to combat incidents like this.
BTW, if the bruv had been in our fair land, the majority party in Congress would have been more than glad to allow him to have been armed.
Senate
Republicans voted against barring suspected terrorists, felons and the mentally
ill from getting guns on Thursday afternoon, parroting National Rifle
Association arguments that doing so would strip some innocent people of their
constitutional rights to gun access just a day after yet another massacre on
U.S. soil.
Yeeha! Land of the free and the home of the armed.
"Senate Republicans voted against barring suspected terrorists, felons and the mentally ill from getting guns on Thursday afternoon, parroting National Rifle Association arguments that doing so would strip some innocent people of their constitutional rights to gun access just a day after yet another massacre on U.S. soil."
ReplyDeleteFunny, innit? Banning all Muslims from coming into the country could also ban a lot of innocent Muslims and possibly some great contributors to our culture, but we can't be too careful can we. But the neo-fascists in the TGOP don't see it that way. Only where it concerns firearms.
I always hear about how if we make it harder to get armed, the criminals will get guns anyway. Now, if somehow an actual terrorist gets into the country he will at least have no problem finding weapons. Once the wall with the BB door is built that won't be a problem, tho.
ReplyDeleteWe make it harder for thieves to rob banks by having security guards, cameras, silent alarms, etc. in the banks, but banks still get robbed. So why bother? That their screwball thinking. Gun control -- serious gun control -- does save lives. See Australia.
ReplyDeleteGun control -- serious gun control -- does save lives. See Australia.
ReplyDeleteMagpie has pointed that out to me a few times for which I'm grateful. As much as I've tried to use that in arguments against gun fetishists, it has done no good at all.