The previous post in this series is here.
The extreme nature of British gun bans has still not protected the people from the occasional mass murderer with a gun. In fact, even in the USA, they only tend to happen where virtually everyone is known to be disarmed by law, like in schools, government offices, universities, post offices and military bases [go figure, but they’re disarmed]. When was the last time you heard of a mass murder at a gun show? Or a gun range? Of course, in Britain, everyone is disarmed all the time everywhere, by law… so mass murder can happen anywhere at all. According to Peter Hitchens, Perhaps these deadly rampages aren’t so ‘inexplicable’ after all:
Yet another gun massacre is followed by yet another typhoon of psychobabble,
sentiment and bogus declarations that ‘this must never happen again’, when everyone knows that it will.It’s difficult to argue for tighter gun laws, since they’re already so tight, though I’m sure the authorities will think of something suitably irrelevant and futile, as they did after Hungerford and Dunblane.
They are determined to make sure nobody in this country is armed, apart from criminals and terrorists, the invariable effect of ‘tough’ gun laws that trouble only the law-abiding and have no impact on illegally held weapons at all.
The truth is that until 1920, Britain’s gun laws were so relaxed they made Texas look effeminate, but we had virtually no gun crime. That only really began to increase here after we abolished hanging.
But that truth doesn’t fit the Leftist dogma which has everyone, including the Tories, the media and the police, in its grip, so the facts will be ignored.
What can we learn from the Cumberland murders? Well, first of all that the police are no use to anyone once a crime has been committed. They never were and they never will be, except if they can do first aid.
It’s such a pity they’ve forgotten their job is to prevent crime rather than hold verbose Press conferences afterwards and festoon the countryside with silly scene-of-crime tape copied from American TV shows.
It’s possible an old-fashioned village constable, on the spot, might have done something to halt Derrick Bird, or have realised something bad was going to happen before it did.
It’s certain that the modern fire-brigade approach to policing with its sirens, helicopters, computers and flash cars was no use.
This is another area where the “mother country” of the USA has simply lost its mind. Hitchens goes on to conjecture that anti-depressant drugs are at the heart of some of these mass murders.
Maybe.
The next post in this series is here.
June 14th, 2010 8:17 am
So this means that mass murders are not depressed? Since when do light-hearted people commit mass murder? Something is definitely missing here.
June 14th, 2010 8:17 am
I mean “mass murderers”.