{"id":5412,"date":"2010-06-09T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/06\/09\/brit-on-british-shooter-in-cumbria\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:08","slug":"brit-on-british-shooter-in-cumbria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5412","title":{"rendered":"A Brit on the British Shooter in Cumbria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19437,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailymail.co.uk\\\/debate\\\/article-1284311\\\/PETER-HITCHENS-Perhaps-deadly-rampages-arent-inexplicable-all.html#&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailymail.com\\\/debate\\\/article-1284311\\\/PETER-HITCHENS-Perhaps-deadly-rampages-arent-inexplicable-all.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:19438,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/armsandthelaw.com\\\/archives\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/peter_hitchens_1.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/armsandthelaw.com\\\/archives\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/peter_hitchens_1.php&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-1284311\/PETER-HITCHENS-Perhaps-deadly-rampages-arent-inexplicable-all.html#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perhaps Derrick Bird&#8217;s deadly rampages aren&#8217;t so &#8216;inexplicable&#8217; after all<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Yet another gun massacre is followed by yet another typhoon of psychobabble, sentiment and bogus declarations that \u2018this must never happen again\u2019, when everyone knows that it will.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to argue for tighter gun laws, since they\u2019re already so tight, though I\u2019m sure the authorities will think of something suitably irrelevant and futile, as they did after Hungerford and Dunblane.<\/p>\n<p>They are determined to make sure nobody in this country is armed, apart from criminals and terrorists, the invariable effect of \u2018tough\u2019 gun laws that trouble only the law-abiding and have no impact on illegally held weapons at all.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m amazed that anyone left in the UK still had enough good sense to recognize this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The truth is that until 1920, Britain\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>But that truth doesn\u2019t fit the Leftist dogma which has \u00adeveryone, including the Tories, the media and the police, in its grip, so the facts will be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe British Empire may have faded but their writers can still figuratively wield a very sharp pen. <\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/armsandthelaw.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/peter_hitchens_1.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Hardy for the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Derrick Bird&#8217;s deadly rampages aren&#8217;t so &#8216;inexplicable&#8217; after all Yet another gun massacre is followed by yet another&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4682,45,4077],"class_list":["post-5412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cumbria","tag-gun-control","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}