The first article is about Trident, a police and community leader organization to stop gun violence in the black communities of London. Seeing as how the entire country has very stringent gun laws, I do not understand how they can possibly have any gun violence. Trident is starting an ad campaign:
The campaign features a stark billboard advert depicting a dead man in a mortuary fridge with the hard-hitting and bleak message: "Carrying a gun can get you into the coolest places."Over 80 of the billboards went up over night in the six boroughs of London where gun crime is most prevalent within its black communities.I am going to assume that most of the folks that visit my blog understand just how factually incorrect the premise of this advertising campaign is. Our domestic anti gunners take a lot of their cues from Britain and Australia, so I expect to see similar billboards in LA and NYC soon.
The advert is intended to demonstrate the likelihood of being a victim of gun crime if you carry a firearm.
The next article concerns an operation to get knives off of the streets of London. If you have not been following knife laws in London, you may be surprised to learn that carrying a knife in London could get you five years in prison. They treat knives pretty much the same as Massachusetts treats guns. There are knife buyback programs and anti knife rhetoric taught in the schools. It is all pretty funny, until you remember that will happen in the U.S. once they get the guns banned. Here is the article:
The MPS has launched the next phase of Operation Blunt in a bid to tackle the carrying of knives in the Capital.Search arches = portable metal detectors placed in high congestion areas.
As part of Operation Blunt, Met officers, including Safer Neighbourhood Teams , from all 32 boroughs are employing a number of measures as part of a long-term strategy to combat knife crime. This includes the use of search arches and hand-held detectors at transport hubs and licensed premises across the capital.
High-visibility patrols are operating in knife hotspots, and test purchases are to be carried out with the assistance of trading standards. Police will also deploy automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) systems.
During the three-weeks of sustained activity, which began on Monday 23 October and includes school half-term, police are operating search arches across London.
Today officers are working with colleagues from British Transport Police at various locations including Clapham Junction, one of the busiest railway stations in the country. We know that those who carry knives use transport links to move around London. The operation at Clapham is one of a variety of tactics being deployed across the capital and is being rolled out to other stations and locations so as to prevent people travelling with offensive weapons.
Superintendent Chris McDonald, operational lead for Blunt, said:
"It is a sad fact that many young people continue to carry knives either as a fashion accessory or because they feel that it will offer them protection. However, the stark reality is that every week teenagers become victims of knife crime. The national amnesty is over, people have had a chance to dispose of their knives. If anyone is caught carrying a knife by police, we will arrest them and put them before the courts."Metal detectors, sting operations, electronic surveillance... sounds like something out of a Robert Ludlam book. But instead of using all this manpower and technology to find a terrorist, they are looking for folks carrying pen knives.
Laws like this can happen here in the United States. I take that back, laws like this will happen unless we work together to put a stop to the ever increasing encroachments upon our basic freedoms by local, state and federal governments.
2 comments:
"...so as to prevent people travelling with offensive weapons."
A weapon is just a weapon, intent declares it either offensive or defensive.
Nice catch JH, thanks for stopping by.
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