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UK taxi driver kills 12, wounds 25 in England
Associated Press ^
| June 2, 2010
| SCOTT HEPPELL and JILL LAWLESS
Posted on 06/02/2010 12:38:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SEASCALE, England – A taxi driver drove his vehicle on a shooting spree across a tranquil stretch of northwest England on Wednesday, methodically killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself, officials said.
The rampage in the county of Cumbria was Britain's deadliest mass shooting since 1996 and it jolted a country where handguns are banned and multiple shootings rare.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; cumbria; taxidriver; travisbickle
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To: Free ThinkerNY
In England? Where did he get a gun in England?
To: Free ThinkerNY
You know, this would be so much easier if they just outlawed murder.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Let me guess...it was a Christian fanatic, out on a killing spree...
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:41:49 PM PDT
by
Fedupwithit
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" -Albert Camus)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Religion of Peace perhaps?
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:42:20 PM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Mexico presents a more profound threat to our territorial integrity than Germany or Japan ever did.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
“Deadly shootings are rare in Britain, where gun ownership is tightly restricted. In recent years, there have been fewer than 100 gun murders annually across the country.”
But murders and other violent crime are way up.
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:42:55 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:43:13 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This just isn’t possible. Guns are illegal in England.
When will these people stop lying?
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:43:43 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
They have a photo of a White guy in the article.
But, I remain dubious.
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:44:55 PM PDT
by
240B
(he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Outlaw Handguns!!! What...they aleady are?
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:45:53 PM PDT
by
ez
("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
I retract my speculation with apologies.
I guess even in our insane world guys still go quietly and completely wacko every now and then.
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:46:02 PM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Mexico presents a more profound threat to our territorial integrity than Germany or Japan ever did.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
"I can't believe he would do that — he was a quiet little fellow."You just knew there would be that statement.
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:46:53 PM PDT
by
bgill
(how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Look at what they say. The words are not convincing.
AP – This is a undated handout photo issued by Cumbria Police on Wednesday June 2, 2010 of Derrick Bird, 52, …
They say it is an undated handout photo, but they do not actually say that this is the guy who did it?
I could hand out a photo of Boy George, does that mean he did this?
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:48:13 PM PDT
by
240B
(he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
To: Larry Lucido
In England? Where did he get a gun in England?
Well don´t know maybe he bought it in a gun shop?
Why do all people here think that all guns are illegal in
the UK? because they are NOT.
btw. Here is an other topic about this shooting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2526126/posts
To: NaughtiusMaximus
“Religion of Peace perhaps?”
If he was, we’ll never be told. Bias and lies have rendered news outlets totally useless. We may as well be living in the Dark Ages.
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:55:02 PM PDT
by
Spok
(Free Range Republican)
To: Larry Lucido
Just another one of those “gun free zone” mass murders—nothing to see here, move along.
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:55:11 PM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: Free ThinkerNY
Mohammad Motor Madness.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:56:06 PM PDT
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This couldn’t have happened, guns are illegal in the UK.
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posted on
06/02/2010 12:56:14 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: Free ThinkerNY
“Let’s not bicker and argue over ‘oo killed ‘oo.”
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posted on
06/02/2010 1:12:44 PM PDT
by
paddles
("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
To: Free ThinkerNY
“Someday a real rain will come...”
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posted on
06/02/2010 1:14:08 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
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