Cousins Killed In Gang-Related Machine Gun Drive-By Shooting In "Gun-Free" England

Independent - UK ^ | 4 Jan 03 | Terri Judd

[MindBender26]

Two young cousins killed in an apparent gang fight died in a hail of 30 bullets, police revealed yesterday.

Officers investigating the "exceptionally brutal" incident in inner-city Birmingham, in which two teenage girls died and two others were injured, said at least three weapons, one of which was a sub-machine gun, had been fired in the early hours of Thursday.

Yesterday they named the dead girls as Charlene Ellis, 18, and Latisha Shakespear, 17.

Charlene's twin sister, Sophie, was under armed guard in hospital yesterday, in a stable condition after surgery. A fourth cousin, Cheryl Shaw, 17, was discharged from hospital after treatment for a wound to one hand.

[MindBender26]

Story must be wrong.

Of course, there are no shootings in the UK, because there are laws against guns there.... right???????

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[Consort]

   Birmingham

[DWSUWF]

"...Story must be wrong..."

That's what I thought too.

I mean, when you write a law it's just like 'Mother May I'? isn't it?

I mean... You've GOT to do what the law says, right?

Something strange is going on here!

I'm scared.

[sushiman]

Latisha ...Hmmm...

[buffyt]

when guns are outlawed....
only outlaws have guns....
PROOF in UK.

[SauronOfMordor]

The increasing violence in England is coming largely from Jamaican drug gangs, who have imported Jamaica's homicide rate (44 per 100K, highest in the world) to their new neighborhoods

[thisiskubrick]

You know the joke about English cops..

"STOP! Or I'll say STOP AGAIN!!"

[DWSUWF]

"...when guns are outlawed.... only outlaws have guns.... PROOF in UK.

Your point is perfectly clear...

Gun prohibition laws are pipedreams.

But it's important to note that our Second Amendment rights are GOD-GIVEN.

No 'law' can remove that right.

A treasonous regime may well indulge itself with the conceit that it can do this, but the reality is that all such a 'government' can do is to act outside the boundary of authentic law and make war on the people and upon their immutable rights.

A better way to put it would be:

When guns are 'outlawed' The outlaws are making the 'laws'.

[quebecois]

"Latisha Shakespear"???? Ya couldn't make this stuff up.

[archy]

Birmingham

Birmingham Small Arms:

[stop_fascism]

I'm sure that if the muderous thugs knew about the law they never would have used guns.

[PatrioticAmerican]

I hate when the media lies about guns being used in a gun-free land. This story MUST be pure propaganda because England outlawed such wepaons!

[MindBender26]

Ms. Shakespear is dating Tyrone Mountbatten.

[gundog]

I read some time ago that the gangbangers over there had adopted the attitude that if all guns are illegal, why not go for a full auto? I'm guessing it's one of those unintended consequence thingies.

[pabianice]

Yet another British "gun control" success...

[lavaroise]

when guns are outlawed.... only outlaws have guns.... PROOF in UK.

This is like the bad old days of pogroms in Russia and Germany in Germany. Because they do not want the people to be autonomous from the state, god forbid, people have to be disarmed when defending themselves.

[dennisw]

Deport the (extended) families back to ye olde 3rd world hellhole Jamaica and the violence will cease.