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Evil US gun culture taints Britian

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../nm/20031105/music_nm/leisure_sistersledge_dc

Entertainment - Reuters

Sister Sledge Visit UK Parliament in Anti-Gun Show
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By Matthew Jones

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. disco queens Sister Sledge visited Britain's parliament on Wednesday as part of a campaign to combat rising gun crime.



Joni and Debbie Sledge added their voices to the Disarm Trust campaign at the House of Commons on the day a parliamentary report into gun crime was published.


Joni Sledge said the increase in gun crime in Britain was frightening.


"I've seen things in Britain that are really disturbing," she told Reuters.


"I hope Britain does not develop a gun culture. Look at what has happened in the United States and don't follow us," she said.


Although Sister Sledge are better known for such dance floor favorites as "We Are Family," "Lost In Music" and "He's The Greatest Dancer," Joni and Debbie Sledge are also fervent campaigners against gun crime.


Joni witnessed a shooting in Los Angeles a couple of years ago in which a young girl was killed in the crossfire of a gang fight. Distressed by the death and the youth of the gang members she composed a song entitled "Brother, Brother, Stop."


"The shooting was really painful, horrific," she said.


The British parliamentary all-party report has been compiled against a backdrop of growing fears about crimes in Britain involving guns. Last month a seven-year-old London girl was shot in the back as she ran away from a hitman who had gunned down her father.


Joni and Debbie, one half of the quartet, were due to perform at a sell-out show in London on Wednesday evening.





"I hope Britain does not develop a gun culture. Look at what has happened in the United States and don't follow us," she said.
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I'd don't know whether to laugh or be offended by this moron
 
I guess Joni and Debbie Sledge didn't pay much attention during history back in school. The gun culture is the reason there is a United States. Otherwise, we'd still be part of the British Empire. The British prefer their peasants unarmed and pliant.
 
Gun culture in America consists of blowing up wild animals and inanimate objects for fun & lunch, and occasionally shooting burglars in the head in Texas and not getting arrested. In the UK all things "gun" are associated with crime, which makes perfect sense insofar as they outlawed virtually all harmless or legitimate uses of firearms, facilitated in part by slandering the great mass of harmless, law-abiding gun owners as atavistic monsters.
 
All I can say is, "Who?"

No, seriously, I remember this one-hit wonder group.

And they could only get half of them? Powerful statement.

The UK has done a wonderful job of making "gun" and "crime" two words that never appear apart.
 
They're still pissed about that whole revolution thing.:D
If we were unarmed then we'd still be the colonies.....screw them and sisterSludge.....:cool:
 
If we were unarmed then we'd still be the colonies.....
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And very possibly our soldiers would have been slaughtered charging machine guns at Gallipoli along with the Australians.

Pilgrim

P.S. In view of the history lesson posted by St Johns, our lads might have won some Victoria Crosses at Rorke's Drift, and Gallipoli would have been a resounding success. :D
 
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Wait a minute! This must be one of them there internet hoaxes you always hear about. I mean, how can there be gun violence in Great Britain? Aren't guns illegal there? If guns are illegal, there can't be any gun violence, right? I mean, wasn't that the point of outlawing ALL guns, including hunting and target shooting guns?

It just goes to show that you can't trust anything you see on this here 'net. Next y'all be tellin' me there's alligators in the sewers and such.

Frank
 
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/s339195.htm

History is very often the stuff of myth and legend, and those often don't necessarily include fact. Note the cite is from Australia and debunks the idea that the British sent the Australian colonials in to Gallipoli to die because they are nasty cruel and evil.

So easy to pick fun at the British on valid grounds (as it is to pick fun at Americans) let's not use popular myth.
 
Perfect sample of "celebrity" (un) logic:

Joni Sledge said the increase in gun crime in Britain was frightening.
"I've seen things in Britain that are really disturbing," she told Reuters.


"I hope Britain does not develop a gun culture..."

The increase in gun crime is the reason for not having a "gun culture". "Gun culture" is one of the abused words the oppressors (formerly known as "liberals") use, giving the absolute right for self-defense a bad name.
 
"I hope Britain does not develop a gun culture. Look at what has happened in the United States and don't follow us," she said.
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Britain could use a little 'gun culture' fighting back against violent criminals.
 
Translation:
We're complete has-beens in the US, so we're going to come to the UK and parrot the popular line, and hopefully you'll buy it, and we'll make some money off you.
 
The British parliamentary all-party report has been compiled against a backdrop of growing fears about crimes in Britain involving guns. Last month a seven-year-old London girl was shot in the back as she ran away from a hitman who had gunned down her father.
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Wasn't this hitman supposed to turn his gun in?
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OK, "celebrities" visit UK and decry guns and violence. This helps how???

Oh, I get it. criminals will hear them and say "I've been such an awful person to use a firearm on these poor defenseless folk. I think I'll give up crime, and the newfound safety I enjoy from having my victims disarmed, and I'll take up honest work now".
 
I like what Ed Straker and Dave R said.

I genuinely do.

And Cacique - he was. Perhaps he missed the amnesty, somebody really should tell him that he broke the law by having that there gun. It's completely irrelevant that it was a drug thing that got that innocent little girl killed, much more of a gun thing really (and for those who need British irony spelled out, here -> :rolleyes: )
 
I think those evil guns are making people commit acts of violence. Yes that must be it,the guns are to blame. Thank god for Sister Sledge or we would all be slaves to guns. :evil:
 
"Hardly much to add .. it's been said .. just the usual ...."

Spoken suspiciously as if you might be a Britain tainted by the evil American gun culture...

Stay right there. A black helicopter will be dispatched to your location carrying an MI-5/MI-6/SAS reeducation squad led by the Dutchess of Pork, er... York...
 
Spoken suspiciously as if you might be a Britain tainted by the evil American gun culture...
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Hahaha!

(Spoken in best impression of a London ''Cockney'') ........... ''Ere mate ...... you a bleedin sykick or summink?''?! :p

''Tainted'' ...... I was ''tainted'' in the womb ....... everything since then has been the march toward completion of my mission!! Still incomplete . daresay it never will be!!:D
 
Our "celebrity elite" not attempt to influence the politics of a foreign nation. I wish they'd go to North Korea and speak with Dr. Evil about his stance on Human Rights (Right to be tortured, Right to be killed, Right to be starved, Right to be humiliated in public).
 
Oh, Britain used to be like us.

Brave, strong men and women who colonized over 1/4 of the globe for King and Country. People of substance, people of fortitude, independent, forward thinking people. People who made it the richest, most powerful empire the world has ever seen.

And then, somehow, they became wussified.

As my English history professor said back in 1984 (and he's from Kent)... "Somehow, the English forgot what it was that had made them English. And now, we have what we see today."

He wasn't at all happy.
 
Well I know that I don't really need to point out the difference to you guys, but I feel that I should anyway.
Our gun culture is a good thing.
It is quite difficult for a hitman to kill an armed "redneck" and shoot said redneck's daughter because said redneck would already be giving said hitman dancing lessons, courtesy of said redneck's Winchester.

You really can't compare the two.
But I could care less.
I don't live in Great Britian, so it really isn't my problem.
If they feel the need to make themselves vulnerable to rapists, muggers, and murderers, more power to them.
Democracy in action and all that...:rolleyes:
 
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