godspel-13
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I just read this article on FoxNews.com and thought this discussion is germane to OC rights and gun rights in general...
Judge rejects bid to stop Olympic rooftop missiles
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/...ics-1378944983/?test=latestnews#ixzz20FLgwlUX
LONDON – A British judge has rejected a bid by residents of a London high- rise to stop having their building used as a missile base during the Olympic Games.
Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said Tuesday that Britain's Ministry of Defense acted legally when it decided to put the weapons atop the Fred Wigg Tower.
Residents of the 17-story tower, about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the Olympic Park in east London, say the missile battery could make their homes a terrorist target.
But the judge said the missiles presented no real threat.
The building is one of six sites where the British military plans to place missiles as part of security for the July 27-Aug. 12 games.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/...ics-1378944983/?test=latestnews#ixzz20FLIrw96
This article illustrates one important facet about weapons that many are completely mistaken about: weapons do not make you a target! A missile battery atop a London high rise is not attractive to terrorists. In fact, it will... wait for it, wait for it... deter them!!! Oh my goodness!!!
And this is a faulty argument that people who do not understand OC hold on to. My visible handgun makes me less of a target because of the threat to the potential offender's abilities to overcome an unforseen factor and combat a potential victim a device that could easily over-power them.
Of course, coming from the land across the pond who has banned everything up to butter knives (in parliament now), you can expect viable and meaningful security measures to be protested up until and during the Olympics.
And speaking of Olympics, I would like to wish a friend Russell Wolfe good luck during the Para-Olympic Archery Recurve events! (He'll never see this, but it's the thought that counts!)
Have a great day, ladies and fellas!
-Erik aka godspel-13
Judge rejects bid to stop Olympic rooftop missiles
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/...ics-1378944983/?test=latestnews#ixzz20FLgwlUX
LONDON – A British judge has rejected a bid by residents of a London high- rise to stop having their building used as a missile base during the Olympic Games.
Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said Tuesday that Britain's Ministry of Defense acted legally when it decided to put the weapons atop the Fred Wigg Tower.
Residents of the 17-story tower, about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the Olympic Park in east London, say the missile battery could make their homes a terrorist target.
But the judge said the missiles presented no real threat.
The building is one of six sites where the British military plans to place missiles as part of security for the July 27-Aug. 12 games.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/...ics-1378944983/?test=latestnews#ixzz20FLIrw96
This article illustrates one important facet about weapons that many are completely mistaken about: weapons do not make you a target! A missile battery atop a London high rise is not attractive to terrorists. In fact, it will... wait for it, wait for it... deter them!!! Oh my goodness!!!
And this is a faulty argument that people who do not understand OC hold on to. My visible handgun makes me less of a target because of the threat to the potential offender's abilities to overcome an unforseen factor and combat a potential victim a device that could easily over-power them.
Of course, coming from the land across the pond who has banned everything up to butter knives (in parliament now), you can expect viable and meaningful security measures to be protested up until and during the Olympics.
And speaking of Olympics, I would like to wish a friend Russell Wolfe good luck during the Para-Olympic Archery Recurve events! (He'll never see this, but it's the thought that counts!)
Have a great day, ladies and fellas!
-Erik aka godspel-13