B777LRF wrote:It’s hardly surprising that certain ammosexual elements are out peddling their false equivalences and usual diarrhoea of whataboutism. The message coming across is basically that all laws are superfluous, since they’re not 100% effective. Might as well not have laws regulating drink driving, homicide, rape and incest, since the laws we have on the books are incapable of preventing these crimes from happening in 100% of cases.
Fact is that this is the 3rd mass-killing in Norway in a period of 11 years. To put that into perspective, based on a per capita basis, the US should have had around 180 such events in the same time period. Alas, the US has managed to eclipse that number quite considerably in a period of less than 3 months in 2022. The difference is not solely down to the difficulty of obtaining a firearm; the Norwegian society is inherently peaceful, unlike the inherently violent society that is a US trademark. They also enjoy universal health care and a fine-masked social safety net. But what they can’t guard against, what no free society can ever guard against, is the lone-wolf psychopath.
What sane societies can do, however, is to make it as difficult as possible for individuals to carry out their heinous act, for instance by way of severely restricting legal access to firearms.
Put with logic, realism and sanity......as opposed to, god if their physical gymnastics matched the mental ones ammosexuals trot out they’d be Olympic Gold Medalists.
Here, so far hasn’t happened but never say never, (it is the nightmare scenario of the security services here if terrorists ever got firearms, more specifically smuggled in automatic weapons to do an attack like Mumbai or Paris, hence when not long ago an Organised Crime Group was busted at sea trying to bring in AK’s and other military weapons, they got very heavy prison terms).
But what have lone wolf terrorists used in the UK used in attacks? Cannot get AR-15’s or similar since they have been banned (under the Thatcher government before the US fantasy of left wingers ‘taking guns’ is farted out,because of the Hungerford massacre in 1987), or a pistol (since the Sandy Hook type massacre at Dunblane in 1996), yes other first world Western nations are ‘weird’ like that, the desire to protect people from being massacred by nutcases, whether they be religious or political or just, as in those two cases, just bitter life failures, when they are using weapons not ones used and still legal for actual rural purposes, but ones with no logical justification in a modern society.
This is why the lone wolf’s here are using.......knifes. As a result these scum can still kill people, injure more, not thankfully many, not for long before the armed response comes and slots them, or normal beat cops have a go with a baton, taser if available, protecting the public as they are sworn to do, in stark contrast to Udvale who were armed up.
The perps have sometimes even faked up suicide bombs (which means the Firearms Officers concentrate aimed fire including to the head just in case they are real).
At the Borough Market attack the AFO’s were there within a couple of minutes, would a normal armed as standard officer beat that? Certainly put Udvale’s law enforcement to shame, yes it was Central London so plenty of them around, this is also by far the favorite place for these types to attack, high profile and crowds.