I just watched Scotland's Secret Serial Killer last night on BBC iPlayer which was a Documentary that aired on BBC Two in Scotland on 10 Dec 2009 about convicted serial killer and child rapist Angus Sinclair. It seems that he was let loose on an unsupervised weekend pass to attend a small boat festival back in the mid 90s. He was selling toys there that he made whilst in prison. As the programme said, this would have been the perfect ruse for him giving his M.O. (get a young child to do him a favour and then corner the little girl).
Fortunately, he didn't kill or rape anyone whilst on pass.
"Psychiatrists believe Sinclair's obsession with sex cannot be cured". Well, I think that can be said about most humans.
Most US states would have put this clown on death row. I seriously doubt the yanks would have let him loose and unsupervised on an unsuspecting public (what were they thinking????).
iPlayer no longer has this available.
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17 December 2009
11 December 2009
An interesting way to fight crime
It seems that the West Yorkshire police are using a young girls's letter to show the effects of crime. West Yorkshire Police are sending a Christmas card to known burglars across the Bradford area to make them think about the effect of their crimes.
The BBC interviewed a robber about his experience in a programme where he had to meet his victim and learn how his crime affected her. Somerset Children have also written similar letters.
I have to admit that my experience shows that prevention is far better than punishment at dealing with criminals. It will be interesting to see the effect this has on the West Yorkshire's criminal element.
The BBC interviewed a robber about his experience in a programme where he had to meet his victim and learn how his crime affected her. Somerset Children have also written similar letters.
I have to admit that my experience shows that prevention is far better than punishment at dealing with criminals. It will be interesting to see the effect this has on the West Yorkshire's criminal element.
16 October 2009
NRA Has Yet to Explain Why It Wants to Help Killers, Criminals, Lunatics, and Imbeciles Acquire Guns
Because that's its membership base?
A N.Y. probe exposes loopholes that let criminals buy firearms -- and the need for greater regulation.
LA Times Editorial (Editorial comment: For the fucking morons who don't understand a page link)
October 16, 2009
For shock value, they may not rank with the videos released last month showing ACORN workers giving tax advice to a couple of undercover investigators posing as a prostitute and her pimp. But New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's covert recordings of what really goes on at gun shows are appalling nonetheless.
In the midst of a reelection campaign in a Democratic-majority city, the Republican (sort of) Bloomberg has latched on to an issue that appeals mainly to liberals: gun control. Though New York state has fairly restrictive gun laws, Bloomberg believes firearms bought out of state play a big role in Gotham's crime problems. So he sent private investigators to seven gun shows in three states between May and August and posted the results, including video shot with hidden cameras, on a city-sponsored website.
"So no background check, right?" the investigators ask. "Because I probably couldn't pass one." The response, over and over, is laughter, a shrug or even admissions from gun sellers that they couldn't pass one either. Out of 30 vendors approached, 19 sold guns to people they knew were barred from owning them. Also captured on tape were dealers selling weapons to an obvious straw buyer -- someone who buys a gun for someone else, usually because the actual buyer couldn't pass the federal background check. Sixteen of 17 vendors approached sold guns to straw buyers, which is a felony.
Gun shows are thought to be a key supplier of guns used in crimes, though how big a role they play is the subject of heated debate. To understand why they're considered a problem, one first has to understand the contorted nature of federal gun laws.
New-gun retailers are closely regulated, with laws forcing them to obtain licenses, keep transaction records so that guns used in crimes can be traced, and perform background checks on buyers to ensure they aren't legally barred from owning guns. Convicted felons, drug addicts, the mentally ill and illegal immigrants are among those who fall into that category. Meanwhile, nonprofessional used-gun traders are subject to none of those requirements, although even resellers are forbidden from transactions in which they know the buyer couldn't pass a background check (something Bloomberg's investigators caught on tape repeatedly).
The absence of regulation of second-hand sales is often referred to as the "gun-show loophole." Any criminal can go to a gun show in most states and buy an armful of used firearms, including semiautomatic assault weapons, knowing they're untraceable and that no one will check his conviction record. Bloomberg and other activists seek to close this loophole, and they have powerful friends. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama agreed, as did his Republican opponent, John McCain. Yet bills that have sought to close the loophole have never gone far, and there's little reason to think that current efforts, including a bill from Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), will be more successful. That's because the gun lobby enjoys political power that greatly exceeds the number of hard-core gun enthusiasts in the United States, and because many Democrats believe they lost their congressional majority in the mid-1990s because of their aggressive pursuit of gun-control laws -- and they're terrified of a repeat.
Democrats' cowardice is distressing, particularly when it's exhibited by Obama, who has been silent on the issue since the campaign and has made no attempt to back Lautenberg's bill. But even if it were to pass, it wouldn't go far enough. In truth, the phrase "gun-show loophole" is a misnomer, because unregulated secondary sales don't just happen at gun shows. Used guns are sold at swap meets, through classified ads and even over the Internet. What's more, criminals get their guns from many sources besides gun shows, including straw buyers and licensed dealers who break the law.
What's really needed is a federal law patterned on California’s tough restrictions on firearm sales. Lautenberg's bill, S. 843,:S.843: regulates gun-show transactions exclusively. In California, it is illegal for anyone to sell or transfer a firearm, whether at a gun show or not, without processing the transaction through a licensed dealer, who must perform a background check. Opponents claim that this would be overly burdensome, but it has had no discernible effects on gun sales in California, which, according to a recent UC Davis study, hosted 100 gun shows in 2007 and like many other states saw a 30% year-over-year sales increase in late 2008 and early 2009. Though there's little evidence that this law has reduced gun violence in the Golden State, that's probably because it's still so easy for criminals to get guns from elsewhere, especially from anything-goes border states such as Nevada and Arizona. A federal law would change that.
But it still wouldn't go far enough. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigates a gun show only when it gets a tip that illegal activity is expected; as a result, it conducts operations at less than 5% of them. If nothing else, Bloomberg's investigation proves that more attention is badly needed. The agency should be given the funding, and a mandate, to post undercover operatives at most if not all gun shows. Though the lunatic fringe that believes the ATF to be a Gestapo-like arm of a repressive government would loudly object, most legitimate merchants wouldn't, because they're tired of unfair competition from resellers who don't follow the rules.
None of these measures would restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens; their intent is solely to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals. Though the gun lobby raises a hue and cry whenever such proposals arise, it has yet to explain why it wants to make it easy for murderers, armed robbers and other criminals to obtain the tools of their trade. Bloomberg's gun-show expose has the whiff of a political stunt, but if it gets politicians and the public talking about gun control again, it's a stunt we can applaud.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
Another editorial comment for assholes too stupid to understand the word "plagiarism": this article is not my own but an editorial from the LA Times. I never took credit for it, but you are too fucking stupid to understand that.
So
A N.Y. probe exposes loopholes that let criminals buy firearms -- and the need for greater regulation.
LA Times Editorial (Editorial comment: For the fucking morons who don't understand a page link)
October 16, 2009
For shock value, they may not rank with the videos released last month showing ACORN workers giving tax advice to a couple of undercover investigators posing as a prostitute and her pimp. But New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's covert recordings of what really goes on at gun shows are appalling nonetheless.
In the midst of a reelection campaign in a Democratic-majority city, the Republican (sort of) Bloomberg has latched on to an issue that appeals mainly to liberals: gun control. Though New York state has fairly restrictive gun laws, Bloomberg believes firearms bought out of state play a big role in Gotham's crime problems. So he sent private investigators to seven gun shows in three states between May and August and posted the results, including video shot with hidden cameras, on a city-sponsored website.
"So no background check, right?" the investigators ask. "Because I probably couldn't pass one." The response, over and over, is laughter, a shrug or even admissions from gun sellers that they couldn't pass one either. Out of 30 vendors approached, 19 sold guns to people they knew were barred from owning them. Also captured on tape were dealers selling weapons to an obvious straw buyer -- someone who buys a gun for someone else, usually because the actual buyer couldn't pass the federal background check. Sixteen of 17 vendors approached sold guns to straw buyers, which is a felony.
Gun shows are thought to be a key supplier of guns used in crimes, though how big a role they play is the subject of heated debate. To understand why they're considered a problem, one first has to understand the contorted nature of federal gun laws.
New-gun retailers are closely regulated, with laws forcing them to obtain licenses, keep transaction records so that guns used in crimes can be traced, and perform background checks on buyers to ensure they aren't legally barred from owning guns. Convicted felons, drug addicts, the mentally ill and illegal immigrants are among those who fall into that category. Meanwhile, nonprofessional used-gun traders are subject to none of those requirements, although even resellers are forbidden from transactions in which they know the buyer couldn't pass a background check (something Bloomberg's investigators caught on tape repeatedly).
The absence of regulation of second-hand sales is often referred to as the "gun-show loophole." Any criminal can go to a gun show in most states and buy an armful of used firearms, including semiautomatic assault weapons, knowing they're untraceable and that no one will check his conviction record. Bloomberg and other activists seek to close this loophole, and they have powerful friends. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama agreed, as did his Republican opponent, John McCain. Yet bills that have sought to close the loophole have never gone far, and there's little reason to think that current efforts, including a bill from Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), will be more successful. That's because the gun lobby enjoys political power that greatly exceeds the number of hard-core gun enthusiasts in the United States, and because many Democrats believe they lost their congressional majority in the mid-1990s because of their aggressive pursuit of gun-control laws -- and they're terrified of a repeat.
Democrats' cowardice is distressing, particularly when it's exhibited by Obama, who has been silent on the issue since the campaign and has made no attempt to back Lautenberg's bill. But even if it were to pass, it wouldn't go far enough. In truth, the phrase "gun-show loophole" is a misnomer, because unregulated secondary sales don't just happen at gun shows. Used guns are sold at swap meets, through classified ads and even over the Internet. What's more, criminals get their guns from many sources besides gun shows, including straw buyers and licensed dealers who break the law.
What's really needed is a federal law patterned on California’s tough restrictions on firearm sales. Lautenberg's bill, S. 843,:S.843: regulates gun-show transactions exclusively. In California, it is illegal for anyone to sell or transfer a firearm, whether at a gun show or not, without processing the transaction through a licensed dealer, who must perform a background check. Opponents claim that this would be overly burdensome, but it has had no discernible effects on gun sales in California, which, according to a recent UC Davis study, hosted 100 gun shows in 2007 and like many other states saw a 30% year-over-year sales increase in late 2008 and early 2009. Though there's little evidence that this law has reduced gun violence in the Golden State, that's probably because it's still so easy for criminals to get guns from elsewhere, especially from anything-goes border states such as Nevada and Arizona. A federal law would change that.
But it still wouldn't go far enough. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigates a gun show only when it gets a tip that illegal activity is expected; as a result, it conducts operations at less than 5% of them. If nothing else, Bloomberg's investigation proves that more attention is badly needed. The agency should be given the funding, and a mandate, to post undercover operatives at most if not all gun shows. Though the lunatic fringe that believes the ATF to be a Gestapo-like arm of a repressive government would loudly object, most legitimate merchants wouldn't, because they're tired of unfair competition from resellers who don't follow the rules.
None of these measures would restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens; their intent is solely to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals. Though the gun lobby raises a hue and cry whenever such proposals arise, it has yet to explain why it wants to make it easy for murderers, armed robbers and other criminals to obtain the tools of their trade. Bloomberg's gun-show expose has the whiff of a political stunt, but if it gets politicians and the public talking about gun control again, it's a stunt we can applaud.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
Another editorial comment for assholes too stupid to understand the word "plagiarism": this article is not my own but an editorial from the LA Times. I never took credit for it, but you are too fucking stupid to understand that.
So
FUCK YOU!
Hey, if you can ban toy guns...
Hey, if they can yank lettuce, spinach, and toy guns after a couple of people die, why not real guns???? Think of all the people in the USA who are shot each year: thousands shot resulting in serious injury and death.
Unless the death is Meleanie Hain, then it's funny as hell.
Other than a few annoying assholes, what's to stop them. Can I shoot a few who want me to pry their guns from their cold, dead fingers?
I think armed civilians make great targets!
http://cheri-thomas.blogspot.com/2009/04/ark-senate-oks-ban-on-sale-of-toy-guns.html
Posted by Cheri Pearson | 11:31 AM | arkansas toy gun ban, By Cheri Thomas, Crime, everything, social, toy gun ban | View Comments
I remember when I was a kid growing up in the Eighties, there never seemed to be an issue with kids playing with toy guns. Even the local convenience store sold those little cap guns. However, people have become increasingly concerned about kids playing with toy guns.
Most of the outcries are the result of accidental shootings involving kids shooting other kids. However, an increasing number of children have been shot by the police while yielding these toy guns.
Thanks to my friend, Sean, I've learned how Arkansas is attempting to do something about this:
Unless the death is Meleanie Hain, then it's funny as hell.
Other than a few annoying assholes, what's to stop them. Can I shoot a few who want me to pry their guns from their cold, dead fingers?
I think armed civilians make great targets!
http://cheri-thomas.blogspot.com/2009/04/ark-senate-oks-ban-on-sale-of-toy-guns.html
Posted by Cheri Pearson | 11:31 AM | arkansas toy gun ban, By Cheri Thomas, Crime, everything, social, toy gun ban | View Comments
I remember when I was a kid growing up in the Eighties, there never seemed to be an issue with kids playing with toy guns. Even the local convenience store sold those little cap guns. However, people have become increasingly concerned about kids playing with toy guns.
Most of the outcries are the result of accidental shootings involving kids shooting other kids. However, an increasing number of children have been shot by the police while yielding these toy guns.
Thanks to my friend, Sean, I've learned how Arkansas is attempting to do something about this:
"LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' Senate has approved a ban on the sale of realistic-looking toy guns after stripping from the title the name of a West Memphis boy fatally shot by police.
By a 20-6 vote, the Senate approved the measure to prohibit the sale of play guns that are designed to look like the real thing. Sen. Tracy Steele, the bill's Senate sponsor, said the measure merely mirrors what's already in federal law.
The House had approved the measure, which was originally named the DeAunta Farrow Imitation Firearms Act, after the West Memphis boy who was fatally shot by a police officer who said the boy was holding a gun. But the bill's sponsor agreed to remove the boy's name from the bill after complaints from the family, who dispute police accounts that DeAunta was holding a toy weapon.
The boy was shot to death in 2007 and a civil lawsuit is pending." Source: KSMF
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