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April 29, 2008
BBC Fumbles Toward an Accurate Thought
Amazing. Buried in with the typical condescending obtuseness and anti-gun hysteria, a BBC piece on guns in America includes this:
Wait till you get to London Texas, or Glasgow Montana, or Oxford Mississippi or Virgin Utah, for that matter, where every household is required by local ordinance to possess a gun.
Folks will have guns in all of these places and if you break into their homes they will probably kill you.
They will occasionally kill each other in anger or by mistake, but you never feel as unsafe as you can feel in south London.
It is a paradox. Along with the guns there is a tranquillity and civility about American life of which most British people can only dream.
One day the Beeb might even come to understand that it isn't a paradox.
On a tip from Sean M.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 29, 2008 8:00 PM
Comments
So....they find it a paradox that if you live in an area where people will kill you if you break into their houses, people tend to live in tranquil peace? Good god, those Europeans are dense.
Posted by: mega at April 29, 2008 8:24 PM
An armed society is a polite society.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at April 29, 2008 8:30 PM
They don't get it because they think the US is what the media tells them it is. It's just never getting to see anything good. It's always negative; always violent. That's what sells. What would people think if a channel showed nothing but the peaceful life we live? Boring. They'd change the channel. So the media hypes it up, then tries to outdo itself the next day. The result is a perverted view of what life in America is really like.
Posted by: Lyle at April 29, 2008 8:49 PM
Read the article: guy who lives in "gun free" DC is shot nine times; guy who lives in rural America and keeps a shotgun in the closet sleeps peacefully at night. It really is that simple, and yet Hillary and Obama can't figure it out.
Posted by: PabloD at April 29, 2008 9:00 PM
They just don't get it . . .and never will.
Posted by: jc14 at April 29, 2008 10:39 PM
Ya think that choirboy got shot nine times in church?
Posted by: steven at April 29, 2008 11:39 PM
The second amendment is why we are citizens and the Brits are subjects
Posted by: JamesB at April 30, 2008 5:15 AM
And keep in mind the peaceful gun-free (Heh) Chicago. The model for Obama's America?
Posted by: on-the-rocks at April 30, 2008 5:19 AM
The second amendment is why we are citizens and the Brits are subjects
Word!
Posted by: V the K at April 30, 2008 5:54 AM
Perhaps Californians ought to read this BBC piece..."a message from the NRA about an alarming bill being considered by California's left wing legislature, which is gerrymandered into permanent Democrat domination. "
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/04/california_gun_owners_face_fur.html
They want to limit the sale of ammunition.
Posted by: mandy at April 30, 2008 7:31 AM
California keeps getting safer and safer and safer. Pretty soon, there will be no crime at all.
Posted by: Lyle at April 30, 2008 8:13 AM
California's crime rate has a lot more to do with the people who have moved out of CA and the people who've replaced them, than with the presence of guns, Lyle.
But you are right about European coverage of the States. When I lived in England, I used to laugh out loud at the way it was presented in newspapers, magazines and on TV as common knowledge that Americans "routinely" shoot each other over arguments about suburban rose bushes, kid's pee-wee games, and parking spaces. It's total bullshit, but is accepted as gospel, because it's what so many want to believe.
The fact that the vast majority of American gun crime is of the inner city, thug on thug variety is omitted, in that wonderful, selective blinders BBC way. As Steve pointed out, the "Anwan" who obligingly strips off for the BBC interviewer in an alley to show his nine bullet wounds is never described, beyond being in favor of gun control, even though any American who reads the piece can draw a fairly accurate picture of him in his mind's eye.
Posted by: avalon at April 30, 2008 3:32 PM
