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London Refuses Kids Tickets to Gun-Related Olympic Events

Schoolchildren in London are eligible for 125,000 free tickets for the 2012 Olympics next sumer, but any event that involves a firearm will be excluded from the massive giveaway.London Refuses Kids Tickets to Gun Related Olympic Events

Why, you ask, would anyone choose to hide storied events and world class competitors from children’s eyes?

Because City Hall and Olympic Organizers are afraid of an anti-gun backlash. That’s right — the powers that be  in London won’t subject kids to such bloodsports as Skeet and Trap shooting. The London Evening Standard reported yesterday on the “Ticketshare” decision, and the window it has given into current British views on guns in society.

In supporting the decision to discriminate against Olympic gun events, Danny Bryan, founder of Communities Against Gun and Knife Crime, told the Evening standard he agrees with London Mayor Boris Johnson, and that “It is good kids should enjoy the Games but there’s no way we should glorify guns.” Implicit in this anti-gun activist’s statement is the highly dubious connection between watching Olympic level marksmanship and crime.

London Refuses Kids Tickets to Gun Related Olympic EventsThe dwindling — and already besieged — U.K gun rights community is outraged, as are hopeful members of the shooting events.  They want a reversal of the London Mayor’s decision because their sport is a world class, precision competition that upholds the highest Olympic standards.

Georgina Geikie, 26, a Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and Olympic pistol hopeful, told the Evening Standard she was “horrified,” that the event she has spent years training for was somehow considered inappropriate for children, and said:

“This is a chance for children to look at guns in a different way. They are taking away the opportunity for the sport to blossom. How do we educate people that it is a sport if they cannot watch it?”

David Penn, secretary of the British Shooting Sports Council, was also outraged, and pointed out the utterly nonsensical basis for the decision when he said:

London Refuses Kids Tickets to Gun Related Olympic Events

London Mayor Boris Johnson

“There is no link between Olympic-level shooting and crime. It’s like saying that a thief would use a Formula One car as a getaway car.

And as Matt Rutherford, editor of ShootClay magazines, wrote to London Mayor Boris Johnson in an open letter released yesterday:

“Allowing children to attend these events will ensure that they observe shotgun and target shooting performed at the highest international level, with a high degree of discipline and excellent safety standards.”

Gun ownership has already been under assault in the U.K. Britain’s pistol shooters are not even allowed to train in their home country as a result of laws passed in the wake of the Dunblane massacre in 1996. A lobbying campaign after that tragedy managed to convince British Parliament to pass the Firearms Amendment of 1997, which effectively banned cartridge loading handguns. That ban even includes hopeful British Olympians.

London Refuses Kids Tickets to Gun Related Olympic EventsIn the aftermath of heinous, widespread riots in London and other British cities, it would seem only logical that the Brits revisit their anti-gun stance and consider allowing citizens to provide for self-defense. After all, those riots proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the U.K.’s criminal element already has guns, and will use them against defenseless citizens.

But alas, the British have decided that guns are bad, citizens are mere subjects, and even world class shooting athletes competing for international pride should feel a twinge of regret about their influence on children.

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  • handsoffmystuff
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:02pm

    The British are a conquered people.

    This is how slaves act. Is anyone really surprised by this?

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    • DiscoDave
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:18pm

      Not surprised in the least. Socialism has run rampant there for too long, entrenching that society in a multicultural and Social Justice nightmare.

      Looking at the recent mob violence in Britain, it only proves the point if you outlaw guns, only the criminals will have guns… Criminals less detered by the individuals rights to defend themselves and their homes and businesses.

      The practical response is to boycott the Olympics. And pity poor Britain.

      -David

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    • dr_funk
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:22pm

      Such idiocy. Guns are a tool. If you want your kids to have a proper respect for guns, you start teaching them gun safety from a young age so that it is engrained in them by the time they’re old enough to buy one of their own.

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:41pm

      Is there not also archery events in the Olympics? What about the pole vault? Where does it end?

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:53pm

      OMG, is Julian Assange the new mayor of London? Wow, who knew foursquare had that much influence…..

      Anyhoo, like another poster said a few days ago: the lefties think that exposing guns to children will lead to more gun crimes, but they think that teaching young children the dirty details of sex (and then some) will not lead to promiscuity and all the unintended consequences of it…..

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:06pm

      absolutely hilarious, but we are heading that direction here.

      I am a competitive shooter. I just recently shot the Interservice Championships in Quantico, VA, and the Nationals in Camp Perry, Ohio. I watched some of the junior shooters in Ohio. What a great group of dedicated kids with a whole lot of discipline.

      Everytime I see on the news where a shooting has taken place, and where there is no description of the shooter, I always chuckle. I chuckle, because I know that this is one time that the libs/dems/progressives/athiests break away from their lack of faith, and they pray. They get down on their knees, fold their hands, close their eyes, and with all the fervor thay can must up they pray this. “oh dear God, pleas let this shooter be white. Let him drive a truck. Let him be the product of christian home school. Let him be an NRA member, and competitive shooter, and a hunter. Let him be a member of a batpist church, and a registered republican. Please, please, please, dear God, let there be some sort of record of him attending a Tea Party event……”

      To their dismay, their prayer never gets answered. Generally ends up some kid named Tyrone, who is a biproduct of the lefts social programs, who unfortunately, never grew up with a father, let alone had one that was smart enough to spend time with him, and teach character, how to be a man, gun safety, respect for women……

      Isa 59:2
      But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:27pm

      And yet they will sell Brits kids all the video games that glorify shooting in the worse way.

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:53pm

      The competitors in the Olympic Shooting events should stand with Courage like Glenn and Israel and boycott the shooting events in England to show the Socialist Elites, who deny their citizens their god given rights, that their march to a police state will not be tolerated.

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    • FSM_47
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 4:06pm

      Another reason the UK has become IRRELEVANT on the world stage

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 4:53pm

      @rangerp, amen!!!

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    • M 4 Colt
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:37pm

      Ah yes the mind of the royal class brits, the royals feel that we can‘t have ’the little people’ owning firearms, firearms are only for the upper crust elite in England!
      So you have the rich with armed guards protecting them and the little people just have to sit back and take whatever the criminals dish out.
      A wise American once said that if the people of a country have arms to protect themselves then they are citizens if they are not allowed to have arms then they are subjects.
      So seeing the riots they just had in London that makes the people of England subjects not only of the upper crust elite of English society but also subjects to the criminals too not a place i want to live.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:15pm

      Guns are to be tenderly cared for, caressed and fondled.

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    • claymoremacm
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:22pm

      My 12 year old daughter loves her Henery golden boy 22

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    • Wayner
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:57pm

      If the UK has to go to war are they going to forbid young people to carry guns??

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    • Ready2Rumble
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 9:08pm

      Too bad more Brits didn’t have rifles or shotguns….if they did, perhaps the riots would have ended much, much sooner than they did.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 9:46pm

      .
      The Brits have surrendered.
      Let the riots continue!

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  • Centralsville
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:00pm

    Just one more sign that England is a lost cause. They are such a small fraction of what they used to be. They have even more political correctness than the United States and are never coming back as a nation. A gun is nothing more than a tool that can be used for good or evil. The evil is in the mind of the person, not in the gun. This from a country full of riots and violence that can’t even hold a soccer game without people beating on each other.

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    • scarebear83
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:38pm

      Political correctness has gone awry there… This article explains one scho… I mean er… “place for learning” that doesn’t have bells or even locked doors. It also explains past attempts at renaming people like teachers to “knowledge navigators” because some words just seem too negative :/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/4075423/Primary-school-drops-word-school-from-name-as-too-negative.html

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    • WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 4:19pm

      Dear Brits,
      You should read something from your ancestors … the ones who started THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (I guess you’ve forgotten we were founded by your countrymen?):

      “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

      Enjoy your slavery, your socialism, your European Union, and the new world order of your soon-revealed anti-Christ for the short time you have.

      Sincerely,
      “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:55pm

      London has a lot Islamist Extremist than we do so everything students or other are protesting anything – these extremist get involved and turn demonstrations into riots – and it has been that way for years – long before some of you were even born. http://wp.me/pYLB7-1z2

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:29pm

      @WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges

      Samuel Adams was born in Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson was born in Virginia

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    • Lone Wolf
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 7:36pm

      They will need all the guns they can get when the muslims start rioting and try to take over. It’s coming.

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    • WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 4:03am

      @Viet Vet – “Samuel Adams was born in Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson was born in Virginia”

      Thanks for clearing up any confusion of my use of the word “founded” (when thereafter quoting “the founders”) may cause. Samuel Adams, 3rd generation colonial; Thomas Jefferson 6th generation colonial — both “loyal Englishmen” and British subjects.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 8:43am

      “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

      My God how far has our country fallen since the days those words were uttered. The major voting block of the Democratic party are the same exact people Samuel Adams would be ashamed to call his countrymen.

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  • ginger100
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:00pm

    Oh the progressive society, no wars only peace love and happiness like a John Lennin song.

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    • Shotgun167
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:37pm

      In the progressive society, at least they only beat each other with rocks and sticks. Of course, that is because it is the only thing they can afford….but still…

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  • PJL
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:59pm

    What a bloody shame.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 4:59pm

      The Faggy looking Mayor is afraid the kids will one day won’t to be a Bobby and carry or demand a gun to protect themselves. The best way is not let anyone in that under 21 years old. Shucks – a kid might fall off a horse or hurt their back trying gymnastics.

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  • vinnymac46
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:58pm

    …but they let kids into those soccer matches where people throw beer bottles and feces and other things but oh no, don’t let them in to an event where SAFETY is the first priority. Great thinking.

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  • LOTO
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:58pm

    Yeah, those kids might want guns if they see how they work. That could be a problem.

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  • RLM
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:56pm

    This illustrates why even sport shooters should belong to a gun rights organization, or at least monitor what is going on. Most folks I‘ve met that support trap and skeet don’t understand: If you have any interest in shooting sports of ANY kinda and aren’t monitoring legislation and getting involved to retain our rights, you have already lost. Why? Because there are people out there that care more about taking away your rights than you care about keeping them.

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    • korbin
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:12pm

      I couldn’t agree more. I try tirelessly to get everyone I know to get involved. I will DIE yep for all of my rights especially the 2nd amendment. The ownership of firearms is the one thing in life my family enjoys doing together. They are all well versed on safety, cleaning and of cousre training. I feel sorry ( really ) for those sheep that demonize firearms. Our government is hell bent on total gun control, they hate competition and know darn well people like me will not surrender. This sport is one of the best for families, not gangsters, welfare, tax sucking dirt balls that are the people contributing to the demonization but hard working law abiding citizens. Join the NRA you get legislative updates and can w one click of a button e mail your state and federal reps and be a part of the solution. NRA does the leg work, you see the laws and potential laws for what they are. Our hard working tax dollars are being used by politicians to create bogus laws that only affect those of us who abide by the laws. Especially here in commyfornia. 200 million americans lawfully own firearms and most the rest do illegally so everyone do your part and stand up. NOW b 4 its to late, and believe me its here . God bless our troops, and Israel. Don’t be a sheep, think for yourself.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:44pm

      @RLM
      We are at a time, where all of us need to support each other. The trap and skeet, the varmint hunter, the air rifle competitor, the highpower rifle, the service pistol, 3-gun, IPSC, IDPA, duck hunter, weekend plinker…..

      I would even go farther, and say hunters, fishers, shooters, archery folks…. are all in the same fight.

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    • starman70
      Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:22am

      More than likely, Britain doesn’t have anything that resembles the NRA or the Second Amendment Foundation so there is no voice in support of gun rights.

      If we want to keep our 2nd amendment rights in America, we (As i did) must join the NRA and continue the pressure on the communists in Washington to keep the 2nd amendment i tact.

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  • Dragonfly92667
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:55pm

    They don’t want their kids to see skeet and target shooting because it may mentally effect them? This is the country that still has fox hunts….. and that’s not barbaric?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 3:55pm

      @Dragonfly92667
      They outlawed fox hunts a number of years ago. the same morons that took away the guns, went after the hunting.

      have you ever actually attended a fox hunt? far from violent. Bunch of rich guys and girls in fancy clothes, expensive horses, bugles, and a whole slew of lanky fox hounds. They run around chassing dogs, and the fox generally gets away, and gets chassed another day. Helps keep the predator population down, and rabbit population up.

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  • timej31
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:54pm

    As long as the rest of the world is that way I am fine with it. Can you imagine the cost of guns if the market all of a sudden expanded to every person on the planet? While they are at it they should ban beef to. Pass a law requiring everyone be a vegetarian over there. Beef prices will tumble. Do me a favor California. Ban beef!!

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:52pm

    No guns, no knives..
    Germany, try again. It’s time.

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  • ZAP
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:50pm

    When the muslims start slicing throats,they will change their minds about guns

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    • OniKaze
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:56pm

      No they won’t…. Europeans arn’t the type to take a stand (even if it is required). Europeans are the type to lay down when the villains come for their neighbors they will justify it to themselves by saying “they weren’t coming after me…” and then when everyone else is gone, and they are all that’s left, the last thought that will run through their heads (before the Muslims relieve them from their necks) will be “Why is no-one here to help me??” Which happens with EVERY issue in Europe…

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:23pm

      @OniKaze

      Exactly right! Europeans are like American leftists, they’ll roll over for the first tryant that comes down the pike. To wit: Islamofascist terrorism.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:48pm

    Well, that should solve all your problems England…jolly good show.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:08pm

      Wonder what type of video games England allows these school children to have???? We truly live in an insane world!

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  • Mil-Dot
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:47pm

    You know what? I love the Olympics, but I think I will just sit this one out and not watch. The PC and the spy cameras everywhere just makes me sick. I’ll do something else with my time and my money.

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  • NWalters78
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:47pm

    Boris Johnson is to The Tory Party, what Jon Huntsman and Arlen Specter are to the Repubs. Posers, liars, and fringe-dwellers. Johnson is idiotic to think a bunch of kids will transition from target shooting to shooting random people. The Nanny State, how pathetic.

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  • Yaakov
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:42pm

    Interesting, no one seeking to that which is right should know how to defend or that you must defend yourself. For the idea that the Bad People will no longer do bad things, demonstrates either stupidity of the speaker or the evil intent of the speaker.

    I am confused about why those that are “protecting” us would advocate being sheep while they support the wolves. Are you a sheep?

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  • Airb0rne4325
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:42pm

    I agree with Attention2Detail, Javelin toss, Discus, shotput, Greco-Roman wrestling, Judo, Boxing etc. These are just off the top of my head. These are all combat sports. Guns is what they are afraid of? Maybe they shouldn’t let their kids go to the baseball games b/c their sell of aluminum bats skyrocketed after the riots broke out. Asinine excuse born out of ignorance.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 2:54pm

      Remember the old and modern Olympics are, at the core, a forum to demonstrate military combat skills. After losing 2 generations of young men, the UK began its downward spiral from an empire to socialist country. Except for a professional military, the Brits are a shadow.

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  • drphil69
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:37pm

    Wasn‘t Orwell’s 1984 set in Britain? Are they training the kids to turn in their parents too?

    WAR IS PEACE
    FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
    IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

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  • IAMMADDOG
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:36pm

    London’s mayor looks a little crazy.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:54pm

      That was also the first thing I noticed.

      I thought, how could those people over there elect such a doofus.

      Then, I thought about Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, Wiener, etc.

      So much for my first thought.

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  • OneofMany
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:34pm

    They must have called their California friends…. they are trying to take our guns away here every day.

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  • GETLIFE
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:31pm

    I suppose they won’t be selling any meat either. Gotta protect the children….

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    • MySacredHonor
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:36pm

      And they wonder why we wanted to break away???

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:44pm

      Lets see. England’s glorious history had regular jousting comepetion. The sword is an intricate part of English history. The king’s army were valiant soldiers who protected the land, while conquering violent opponents.
      The weapon of choice today to protect the homeland is a gun. But the mayor just can’t find it is his heart to let children watch experts skillfully exhibit their skills with a gun. –” there’s no way we should glorify guns.”. Isn’t the end result glorifying weakness?

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:35pm

      But the mayor has no problem with glorifying cowardice.

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  • Attention2Detail
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:31pm

    Don’t these geniuses know that the Olympics themselves have roots in combat arts. The original Olympic games were to showcase combat skills. Most of these events are still part of the games. Maybe London should just cancel the games rather than glorify violent activities. When will people stand up to this kind of politically correct insanity?

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  • Charybdis
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:30pm

    As if their societal free-for-all has anything to do with an over-armed citizenry! Their gun-control laws have been draconian for decades now, which has resulted in anarchy and mayhem being enabled against lawful citizens who aren’t even allowed to defend themselves now without being prosecuted. But no! The problem just HAS to be with the almost non-existent guns in that country! What a pathetic excuse for a nation Britain has become!

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:29pm

    and this is why people from the eu are a bunch of whining liberal turds with no balls. I am so tired of this. I am a woman raised in a military family who has been shooting since I was 7. There is a reason why I have never been victimized.

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    • RabidPatriot
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:40pm

      This is the society model that Obama is trying to emulate. He knows he can’t get there in one or two terms but he is setting the ground work for someone else to finish his socialist utopia. Expand government, disarm, social justice, create government dependency and then rule with an iron fist.

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:51pm

      RabidPatriot
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:40pm
      This is the society model that Obama is trying to emulate. He knows he can’t get there in one or two terms but he is setting the ground work for someone else to finish his socialist utopia. Expand government, disarm, social justice, create government dependency and then rule with an iron fist.

      This is EXACTLY why we desperately need a conservative president and congress, not a RINO govt. Without, we are doomed

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:23pm

    I‘m surprised they’re allowing the participants access to their guns.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:34pm

      Very surprised…I think they’ve finally realized just how much they have screwed up and traveled down the socialist path. Now, they are terrified of the people arming themselves and demanding change.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:37pm

      Rule Britainia

      Britania Rule the Waves

      Not so much anymore.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:55pm

      @Creestof
      You smacked that nail on the head so hard it went right through the board.

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  • marhee9
    Posted on August 24, 2011 at 1:22pm

    Funny how this is happening at the same time the London Police are getting their butts handed to them from the youth that are out in the streets. The problem is that the protestors have guns, the Police do not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKZhaEFA1Yk

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