Read the headline, I bet you can’t guess where the story I’m writing about comes from.
That’s right folks, that seeting ball of unadulterated bile and hate The Daily Mail has done what it does so well and got people talking about it, in this case, me.
I’ve been sucked into the latest nonsense on their opinion page.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1284311/PETER-HITCHENS-Perhaps-deadly-rampages-arent-inexplicable-all.html
The latest tosh from columnist Peter Hitchens says the police should have somehow predicted the terrifying rampage around Cumbria by gunman Derrick Bird, who shot 12 people before turning the gun on himself.
There are question marks over the police response, and it’s probably fair to say the local coppers in sleepy Cumbrian villages aren’t used to dealing with gunmen but seriously, how could they have known this would happen?
The first paragraph says “yet another ” gun massacre, and then refers to the tragedies in Dublane (1995) and Hungerford (1987).
So that’s three, one of which was in another country, in 23 years – 12 people died in Bird’s rampage, 16 in Hungerford and 17 in Dunblane.
45 deaths, 23 years, three gunmen.
Hardly America is it?
Obviously, even one of these violent massacres is too many, but it’s the typical attitude of the Mail someone must be blamed.
Why was he given a licence? He has a criminal record for theft a long time ago, hardly top of the FBI’s most wanted is he?
He was given a licence because there was no reason at the time not to give him one.
I don’t suppose looking at him someone would have said: “My god, a taxi driver, with a conviction for theft? This man is bound to go on a killing spree, we can’t allow this.”
Hitchens himself admits gun laws in this country are very, very tight anyway, so goes off and tries to find someone else to blame.
A-ha, it’s those bloody doctors, handing out pills to all and sundry.
No evidence, just a hunch that some of the people who carried out the carnage in America were on anti-depressants.
Well yes, it’s likely they probably aren’t of sound mind to decide that it’s acceptable to kill people they’ve never met.
But to suggest a link? I would wager a lot of the killers in the past probably weren’t on anti-depressants.
So, they killed because they were taking anti-depressants? Or was it because they in fact had a screw loose?
This is a mindless attack on everything, “the police show they are no good once someone has commited a crime”, apart from when they are and catch and arrest people.
Granted, it’s tricky to arrest a man who has just blown his own head off, but I bet old Pete’s got a way.
“Send him to prison”
“But he’s dead”
“I don’t care, he needs punishing”
“He’s just shot himself”
“I don’t care, we’ll lock him up until there’s a way of bringing him back to life, so we can give him the death penalty, which we hope will have been re-introduced by that time.”
He’s right though, it would be much better to ban anti-depressants, so instead of gun massacres we see a substantial increase in suicides.
How dare these quacks give people medicine which might help them, this is the greatest hidden scandal in the history of this great country.
Daily Mail’s attitude would probably be to “Pull yourself together”.
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In Comment, News on June 7, 2010 at 9:15 pmRead the headline, I bet you can’t guess where the story I’m writing about comes from.
That’s right folks, that seeting ball of unadulterated bile and hate The Daily Mail has done what it does so well and got people talking about it, in this case, me.
I’ve been sucked into the latest nonsense on their opinion page.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1284311/PETER-HITCHENS-Perhaps-deadly-rampages-arent-inexplicable-all.html
The latest tosh from columnist Peter Hitchens says the police should have somehow predicted the terrifying rampage around Cumbria by gunman Derrick Bird, who shot 12 people before turning the gun on himself.
There are question marks over the police response, and it’s probably fair to say the local coppers in sleepy Cumbrian villages aren’t used to dealing with gunmen but seriously, how could they have known this would happen?
The first paragraph says “yet another ” gun massacre, and then refers to the tragedies in Dublane (1995) and Hungerford (1987).
So that’s three, one of which was in another country, in 23 years – 12 people died in Bird’s rampage, 16 in Hungerford and 17 in Dunblane.
45 deaths, 23 years, three gunmen.
Hardly America is it?
Obviously, even one of these violent massacres is too many, but it’s the typical attitude of the Mail someone must be blamed.
Why was he given a licence? He has a criminal record for theft a long time ago, hardly top of the FBI’s most wanted is he?
He was given a licence because there was no reason at the time not to give him one.
I don’t suppose looking at him someone would have said: “My god, a taxi driver, with a conviction for theft? This man is bound to go on a killing spree, we can’t allow this.”
Hitchens himself admits gun laws in this country are very, very tight anyway, so goes off and tries to find someone else to blame.
A-ha, it’s those bloody doctors, handing out pills to all and sundry.
No evidence, just a hunch that some of the people who carried out the carnage in America were on anti-depressants.
Well yes, it’s likely they probably aren’t of sound mind to decide that it’s acceptable to kill people they’ve never met.
But to suggest a link? I would wager a lot of the killers in the past probably weren’t on anti-depressants.
So, they killed because they were taking anti-depressants? Or was it because they in fact had a screw loose?
This is a mindless attack on everything, “the police show they are no good once someone has commited a crime”, apart from when they are and catch and arrest people.
Granted, it’s tricky to arrest a man who has just blown his own head off, but I bet old Pete’s got a way.
“Send him to prison”
“But he’s dead”
“I don’t care, he needs punishing”
“He’s just shot himself”
“I don’t care, we’ll lock him up until there’s a way of bringing him back to life, so we can give him the death penalty, which we hope will have been re-introduced by that time.”
He’s right though, it would be much better to ban anti-depressants, so instead of gun massacres we see a substantial increase in suicides.
How dare these quacks give people medicine which might help them, this is the greatest hidden scandal in the history of this great country.
Daily Mail’s attitude would probably be to “Pull yourself together”.
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