Sunday, November 18, 2007

EU Gun Ban

The EU may be setting itself up for a fall

By de Andréa

In a desperate effort to curb crime in the UK, they may be setting the EU up on a fast track to an Islamic takeover...

I will first address the issue and then explain why I believe this may be the beginning of the slippery slope for Europe.

A British MEP is hoping to "fast track" a new EU deal on gun control and says last week's school massacre in Finland should act as a wake up call.

Labour MEP Arlene McCarthy, who chairs a key committee in the British parliament, said a new deal could be in place by the end of the year.

Echoes of Dunblane, another knee jerk reaction:
Eight people, including five teenage boys, the headmistress, a female nurse and a single mother, died when 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen ran amok with a gun in the school in the small town of Jokela Finland last Wednesday.

Ms McCarthy, who represents the North West Region, said: "In the wake of the Dunblane tragedy, the UK toughened its gun laws, and we banned all handguns. “ The shooting in Finland is yet another tragedy that shows the carnage and destruction which weapons in the wrong hands can wreek. The key words here are “the wrong hands”, how anyone can think that passing more laws against the possession of guns will have any affect on criminals, who by their very definition do not obey laws, will keep guns from getting into “the wrong hands” is a mystery. However, they will keep them out of the right hands, because only the law abiding obey the law. Law, will unfortunately not prevent the tragedy that an unstable vulnerable young man was able to have access to a handgun.

"In Finland any adult may own a gun provided it is registered with a shooting club and 1.8 million guns are owned in a population of 5.3 million people. The incident is a wake up call,” says Ms Mc Carthy

While the EU cannot intervene in sovereign countries' own gun laws, Ms McCarthy's committee on the internal market is hoping to push through a new directive - replacing Directive 477, which was passed in 1991 - which would set a series of basic standards which all EU member states would have to abide by.

She told the BBC: "We are still negotiating but we are down to the nitty gritty and I hope to get it signed off soon. I am trying to get it fast tracked by the end of the year."

The directive would include background checks that would have to be carried out before people can purchase guns, new measures would be brought in to ensure guns are registered and can be traced back to their owners; new controls on convertible weapons and control of internet trade in firearms.

What Ms. McCarthy fails to recognize is that most of these these laws are already in place in Finland and one can see that it had no effect on the safety of a gun free school. Moreover, no amount of hysterical decisions regarding this issue will stop this kind of tragic crime.

"I am pleased that member states are supporting my amendments to include 'convertible weapons' in the review of EU law. Ms McCarthy said: "My objective is to cut the supply of these guns, banned in the UK and smuggled in from Lithuania and Germany and currently being used to kill young people on our streets."

THE BOTTOM LINE: I am really blown away by the Ignorance of some educated people in government who say they know what is best for everybody else. I do not know if this speaks for the corruption in our educational system or reflects only on those individuals that exhibit the dregs of blind ignorance, but the result is nevertheless the same.

Not only do more laws that only law-abiding people are known to obey, not have any effect on lowering the crime rate, but they just may increase the violent crime because law-abiding potential victims are not likely to be armed. Statistics especially in the UK bear this out. The gun ban is either the cause of the increase in violent crime in the UK and everywhere else it has been tried, or it is the beginning of oppression.

The Islamic Connection
The Framers of the US Constitution knew that citizens must be armed, if for no other reason, then to maintain the security of a Free State. Europe today, is on the fast track to Islamic control, Sharia law is quickly replacing domestic law, and the culture is rapidly becoming Muslim. What happens to a society that is fast loosing their historical way of life, when in the face of a militant culture bent on taking over the world has its base citizenry disarmed? Criminals will be armed, Muslims will be armed, and the corrupt governments infiltrated with these mindless politically correct multiculturalists or the infiltrated Islamic Militants will be armed. However, the majority of the country’s free citizens will be helplessly disarmed. Can you, as they say, connect the dots? ……..

de Andréa

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