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2008-06-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-02 06:05|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Ironic.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-02 07:13|| 2008-06-02 07:13|| Front Page Top

#2 If guns were banned... she sould be as dead as she is now.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-06-02 07:40|| 2008-06-02 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Whereas if she had a gun, she might be alive.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-06-02 07:56|| 2008-06-02 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 I really should feel some compassion

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-02 08:04|| 2008-06-02 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't understand why they go after the guns, rather than the criminals that wield them?

Maybe there are people who do, but the media ignore them. Anyone know?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-02 08:10|| 2008-06-02 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems he was killed after getting involved with 'criminality'. Her killer, a family member you should note, also apparently got involved with 'criminality' as well as he killed her.

Perhaps she should have focused on making 'criminality' illegal. Or raising her kids a little better.

Posted by Hellfish 2008-06-02 08:29|| 2008-06-02 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Hellfish
Making criminality illegal is a tautology.
It think you mean making criminality jailable?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-02 08:36|| 2008-06-02 08:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Bright Pebbles: This is Britain. I don't think criminality is punishable anymore. Ironically, if you aren't a criminal, you may be punished.

The important thing is that everyone is a suspect, so should be treated accordingly.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-02 10:06|| 2008-06-02 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 > if you aren't a criminal, you may be punished

What is Income Tax after all?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-02 10:13|| 2008-06-02 10:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Wait - I thought Britain had banned knives, too.

I guess it's true - if you outlaw knives, only outlaws will have knives....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-02 11:06|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-06-02 11:06|| Front Page Top

#11 With the UK's (false IMHO) reputation for culinary skills maybe you think we have banned chefs.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-02 11:22|| 2008-06-02 11:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Didn't y'all have some kind of a ban on swords and other big knives, BP?

Which of course means, as you well know, that only the law-abiding will give them up.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-02 11:47|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-06-02 11:47|| Front Page Top

#13 A 19-year-old man, a family member, has been arrested.
HMMMM, who could it possibly be? BBC cannot say.

via Telegraph.co.uk
Police confirmed that her 20 year old grandson was being held in connection with her death.

Mrs Regans body was found in her first floor maisonette, in the Hyde Park area of Leeds, by a neighbour on Sunday night.

Her grandson Rakeim had been arrested earlier in the day at the citys main railway station after a 45 year old security guard was stabbed.

Posted by Tiny Grins4675 2008-06-02 13:44|| 2008-06-02 13:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Bright Pebbles: There is an NRA publication entitled the American Rifleman which has the "Armed Citizen" monthly column. The column documents reports of citizens defending themselves successfully with a firearm against thugs wanting to do them harm (attacking them, breaking into their home, carjacking, etc.)

Posted by JohnQC 2008-06-02 17:09|| 2008-06-02 17:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Don't worry, my hobby is Scuba fishing...

http://www.divers-supply.com/JBL-38-Special-XHD-Speargun-p/jbl20057.htm

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-02 17:49|| 2008-06-02 17:49|| Front Page Top

#16 It's sad, really. She is one of millions of people who cannot differentiate the crime from the instrument used to commit the crime. I don't know how many times I've heard on the news or read in a newspaper the words, "This is the gun that killed my son, fiance, husband, or any name for the victim. The gun did it. I've heard people telling their children, "Guns are BAD". They are putting blame on the instrument used and not on the actual person. It's easier to demonize inanimate objects than it is people.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-06-02 18:50|| 2008-06-02 18:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Guns are an easy target. Focusing on the perpetrators hits too close to home or a sacred cow.

Posted by ed 2008-06-02 18:55|| 2008-06-02 18:55|| Front Page Top

#18 Her grandson Rakeim ....... at least it wasn't Neville.

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