The horror, the horror
The Olympics are in London. One of the sports is shooting. In Britain, they’re afraid of guns and pointy things. But they decide to let people practice anyway, though they have to do so with armed police standing around them. This is, apparently, still too lax for some:
But anti-gun campaigners reacted furiously to the proposed changes, warning that they represented the “thin end of the wedge”, and that the sport would use it to prise out permanent exemptions from the handgun ban.
Oh, England. What happened to you?
July 30th, 2007 at 8:54 am
[…] And Britain, too, apparently, where folks are up in arms (ha, not literally [woo, I like making jokes for my […]
July 30th, 2007 at 9:23 am
the sport would use it to prise out permanent exemptions from the handgun ban.
We can only hope.
July 30th, 2007 at 9:30 am
So they’re guarding the guns with…guns.
July 30th, 2007 at 11:37 am
You’ll note they
object toproject having their own tactics used against them.Quelle surprise.