But he said he had to get back home.
Something about needing to finish out University, and six months left on his “Telly License”.
I write of Phil R., who made it to GBR IV in Reno last month all the way from that crag of an island just north of The Froggy Place that used to be Great Britain.
David and I gave him a ride from Virginia City to the Silver Legacy Hotel so that he could catch a shuttle to the airport for his ride home, when we (very politely) asked if he really wanted to return to his island prison or would prefer to become the pastiest illegal alien of 2009.
After an equally polite and quite reasonable “But I’ve got to get my stuff and all”, we wished him well and a swift return (possibly to Boomershoot 2010).
I was hoping he was doing OK after reading about the “New and Improved” format for police patrols when I found that someone I thought was him had dropped a link to this sad tale into Kevin Baker’s comments section last night.
Gun crime has almost doubled since Labour came to power as a culture of extreme gang violence has taken hold.
The latest Government figures show that the total number of firearm offences in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998/99 to 9,865 last year - a rise of 89 per cent.
In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more than five-fold.
In eighteen police areas, gun crime at least doubled.
The statistic will fuel fears that the police are struggling to contain gang-related violence, in which the carrying of a firearm has become increasingly common place.
They banned handguns a decade ago and have destroyed tens of thousands of them since the ban.
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They’re an island
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There are very likely more handguns in their country now than before the ban.
WTF! Really?
It is as though they are practicing some previously unseen form of quantum mathematics called Irrational Gun Control.
However, since numbers are not my strong suit, I yield to Joe Huffman. Who, I believe, has reverse engineered a solution to the equation in his head during a bite of breakfast.
Not Phil B., Phil R!
They’re different Phil’s.
Thank you for the correction. Now fixed. I blame too much typing while listening to the Them Crooked Vultures track.
…the pastiest illegal alien of 2009.
That made me LOL.
…six months left on his “Telly Licenseâ€
This is a base calumny. I’ll have you know that I’m doing everything I can to stay on as few of Her Majesty’s Government’s (at least they admit it’s not “of the people”) little lists as possible!
If I don’t make it to Boomershoot, it’ll probably be because I’m coming to Stanford as a visiting grad student for the fall quarter of next year, depending on whether I can find someone to con into paying for it, so I may end up at GBR-V.
Ooh, excellent! Stanford’s much too close to where I reside (Livermore) for your studies to remain uninterrupted for very long. For one thing, you’ll have far too many Bay Area shooting ranges to choose from for your weekend sport.
Be sure to visit the calguns.net forums from time to time for updates on California gun stuff. Should get very very interesting once the Supreme Court rules next summer….
I hope it’ll be compounded by the fact that my visiting status will mean that, like Kevin Pollak in “A Few Good Men”, “I have no responsibilities here whatsoever”.