From: "Robert Dashwood", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I was concerned too that at the last "Pistol AD" that there were a number of
> black people present also. One can most definitely "judge a book by its
> cover"! Drug dealers and illegal "Yardies" seeking to buy "off-ticket guns"
> with money made from prostitution and false-passport rackets. It made my
> flesh shiver to see their brown hands handling fine Smith & Wesson pistols
> and asking "How much".
>
This really is silly. I have been practicing at the Bar for a fair few years
and have seen more unpleasant facets of one's fellow man than one would wish
to. I have yet to see anyone with "mugger": "child abuser" or "murderer"
tattooed on them making them stand out from the crowd. The last black chap I
saw with a gun was carrying a rather nice pair of Boss, of which I was most
envious, and had been at Eton. If he was a danger to anyone, it was to those
on the other side of his takeover bids! That there are black criminal gangs
and well-armed is known; there are also Asian, Chinese and various flavours
of white UK armed criminals around. The key is that they are criminals
first; the ethnicity is unimportant. Poaching where I live is a problem,
skillfully handled by local police, and all those who have pointed their
off-ticket 12 bores at me have been locals. If only they'd ask before taking
the pigeons and rabbits, for there are more than enough.
I would be surprised if any sensible criminal would attend a legit. event to
scout for weapons; much more discrete is the dodgy pub, or even a quick trip
to E. Europe: out by Squeezyjet and back by ferry. Eurostar occasionally
searches luggage. Pre pistol ban it was always cheaper to buy unlawfully
than to turn up at a shop with a licence and buy over the counter, or so
some of my clients assured me.
Occasionally one has some very limited sympathy for the criminals. I sat
listening a few years ago to a plea of guilty at Southwark CC for unlawful
possession; discharge with intent to endanger life; att. murder(acquitted of
the latter) well-known drug dealer in the proverbial BMW was cut up by a
white Transit in Balham High Road; he let off a magazine from a Browning
Hi-Power at the Transit, mercifully wounding no-one. There but for the grace
of God...
Forgive the small rant and poor keyboard skills, but the Bar still believes
in Phlogiston and has some way to go to find the 20th.century in my case.
--
Er, I'm pretty sure Richard was being sarcastic!
Steve.
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