Posted on 11/01/2022 5:46:57 AM PDT by rktman
The American media often swoons about the reaction to the Dunblane massacre.
After all, in the wake of that shooting–the second in a decade–massive gun control laws were passed, effectively putting an end to private gun ownership as we would recognize it. (It should be noted that they’ve had as many mass shootings since Dunblane and passing those laws as they did before.)
A growing craze of American combat-style shooting clubs is glamourising firearms – 25 years after the Dunblane handgun ban.
A Sunday Mail investigation has revealed a disturbing spike in “practical shooting” courses in Scotland which allow people to fire against the clock, using obstacles and improvised shooting positions to hit targets. Footage of one club near Glasgow, now being probed by council bosses, shows men ducking and diving around a course, pulling guns out of holsters before discharging quick-fire bullets.
Recoil Scotland said people – who do not hold a licence and who’ve never shot a gun before – can turn up for a three-hour training session and then get their hands on the club’s pump-action shotgun. Last night, gun control campaigners and families of Dunblane victims said the “sport” terrified them and called for a ban.
Jack Crozier, whose sister Emma was one of 16 children killed with their teacher in the 1996 tragedy, said: “These clubs are trivialising the use of dangerous weapons while trying to make shooting more accessible. Watching the videos from some clubs online is terrifying.
“It’s hyped-up wannabe action men running around assault courses with lethal weapons trying to shoot a series of targets as quickly as possible. These types of clubs glamourise shooting and weapons. This is an Americanised sport and it’s everything we want to get away from in the UK.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
P.S. Hey jack, if the activity terrifies you, quit watching it online. Fookin' idjit!
Fine, then shut up and eat the bugs.
Being able to defend yourself is “disturbing” to these twits.
Interesting that the “fraidycats” are so scared of guns but never stop to think that weapons proficiency always saves more lives than it takes. People who train for real world use of any weapon will be far better prepared for a situation that would require the use of a weapon and far more likely to respond more appropriately to that situation. Perhaps the Mo-rons believe that this type of training makes someone more likely to go in guns blazing? People are SO damned stupid.
How does a popular sport ‘glamourise’ anything?
In other words, Shut up, pussy.
Brits.
I suppose you could try to “glamourise” climbing into a cattle car.
Wonder what Winston would say about this if he were posting on FR ?
It’s not our guns...
It’s your sons.
What a difference from the British bowMEN of Agincourt(1425) compared to the French.
British men felt that they were FREE MEN because they were armed, and allowed to be armed at home.
The French raised serfs to be bowmen who were just as good as the Brits, but after some wars the French bowmen were reluctant to return to being serfs. So the French Kings disbanded them, then relied on Genoese Crossbowmen, as french bowmen were now unreliable.
In today’s world the armed British Men have also returned to being serfs.
IMHO, we ought to completely and immediately END all aid, financial or military, to any country which is hostile to the God-given rights enshrined in the Constitution of the USA, including the first, second and fourth ammendments, and furthermore, we ought to abrogate all treaty obligations to such nations.
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