If I was in Uganda
A SCHOOL was blasted for glorifying guns yesterday after putting a picture of a teacher brandishing an AK-47 on its website.
Year Ten head [redacted], 35, was snapped with the assault rifle while supervising a month-long sixth form trip to Uganda.Furious parents and anti-gun campaigners branded her irresponsible, and slammed [redacted]l School in [redacted].
January 11th, 2010 at 11:32 am
If my kids were on a month long school trip to Uganda, I’d want the teachers to be able to defend them….
But, I’m not a brit sissy.
January 11th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
So it is glorifying guns to post a picture of a teacher with an AK-47 but no one has a problem with sending students on a school trip to a place where the rangers need to carry AK-47s?
January 11th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Would they have approved if he were holding an H&H .375 or a Rigby .416?
January 11th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
It appears that the teacher is from the UK, and not from, say, Texas. Explains a lot.
January 11th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
One of my kids saw me at a gun show. I had a momentary panic attack, then realized that I am not living in Kalifornia.
January 11th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
If she was a Brit teacher…..why do they think she actually KNEW it was a gun? She could have thought it was an umbrella or a car jack.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
+100 Stretch. Sten, Bren, Smelly, or a trembling Webley-Fosbery would have done, as well. They’ve rather let the side down, as ’twere. Wot no Bullpup.
I’m heading for Free Market Farm as fast as my keys can carry me. I suspect another one’s just made The List.
January 11th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Who in their right minds would send their children to a third-world shithole such as Uganda without a heavily-armed, dependable escort?
Oh yeah. Nevermind.
Regards,
Rabbit.
January 11th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
re: “brandishing”
That word you keep using, I do not believe it means what you think it does…
January 11th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Eh, my uncle’s been a catholic missionary in Uganda for the past 40 years and he’s seen times that make the country now seem like a stable pleasant place to live.
Maybe he was just really lucky.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
@ Rabbit:”Who in their right minds would send their children to a third-world shithole such as Uganda without a heavily-armed, dependable escort?”
You Neanderthal Knuckle-dragger, don’t you know that ALL cultures are equally valid? If the Ugandans occasionally shoot someone, or hack off their limbs, who are WE to criticize? I mean, westerners are GUESTS in that ‘shithole’, and if they feel the need to maim or kill some British schoolkids, we should just respect their cultural differences, in the name of harmony and tolerance…(barf)
January 12th, 2010 at 5:47 am
lol @ B Smith
January 12th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Hiya B.Smith;
Thanks for the compliment. I appreciate it.
I’m a 6th generation Texan, and Scot, with a Viking in the woodpile, by ancestry, so I’m prone to plain speech.
I’m not inclined to busman’s holidays to conduct mining operations on honeyholes.
Regards,
Rabbit.