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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Ichiban on September 20, 2008, 07:29:03 AM

Title: More British Nanny-state silliness.
Post by: Ichiban on September 20, 2008, 07:29:03 AM: I just don't know what to say. Here's the quote that caught my eye, and then a link to the article.

"The 55-second video - said to have been taken in High Wycombe, Bucks - was spotted after YouTube vowed to ban videos featuring weapons.

The Google-owned site introduced the ban for the UK only amid widespread unease about gang violence on Britain's streets."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/YouTube-Weapons-Video-Ban-Gang-Terrify-Motorists-With-AK47-Rifle/Article/200809315103184?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15103184_YouTube_Weapons_Video_Ban%3A_Gang_Terrify_Motorists_With_AK47_Rifle (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/YouTube-Weapons-Video-Ban-Gang-Terrify-Motorists-With-AK47-Rifle/Article/200809315103184?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15103184_YouTube_Weapons_Video_Ban%3A_Gang_Terrify_Motorists_With_AK47_Rifle)
Title: Re: More British Nanny-state silliness.
Post by: Hazcat on September 20, 2008, 08:14:14 AM: Ichiban,

The notion promoted by the youtube ban that not show videos of gun activity will make 'gun violence' decrease is nanny state foolishness. But the idiot flashing and pointing the AK needs a good ass whoppin'.
Title: Re: More British Nanny-state silliness.
Post by: ericire12 on September 20, 2008, 09:44:37 AM: They probably banned such videos, because on a Macro level it will cause people to buy into the notion that "all guns are evil" , and that "the guns are the problem"..... The less they see guns, the less desensitized they become to guns..... then when they do see one (I.E. on the news in the hands of a criminal), they become hysterical and equate guns as being the problem.

In my opinion, it is a very Hitler-like thing to do, and just a means to furthering their anti-gun agenda.

Nanny-State indeed!

God save the ~~Queen~~ Guns
Title: Re: More British Nanny-state silliness.
Post by: CJS3 on September 20, 2008, 09:50:52 AM: ;) If that had happened here in Texas, oncoming traffic would have shot back. It never ceases to amaze me that a country where guns are illegal has so much gun violence (look at the headlines below the story).
Title: Re: More British Nanny-state silliness.
Post by: Big Frank on September 20, 2008, 08:39:59 PM: After they got most of their guns taken away, the government nearly outlwed beer mugs because people in bar fights were using them as "deadly assault weapons". ::)
Title: Re: More British Nanny-state silliness.
Post by: Fatman on September 20, 2008, 10:54:31 PM: Why waste a bullet when you have an "Assault Weapon" at hand doing 45 mph? I'd just make a speed bump of the moron.