What a tragedy.
Thoughts with everyone affected,particularly Derrick Bird’s two young sons,one in the middle of important school exams,the other one just recently become a father himself.
Can any lessons be learned ?
What do you think of the way the media handled the event ?
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th June 2010 at 23:23
I concur.
By: mike currill - 5th June 2010 at 21:09
No doubt it will result in some knee jerk reaction to the holding of firearms yet again.
Take away ALL the firearms and the unhinged will just find some other way of killing their victims…
It is a terrible event, and the poor old Cumbria Bill probably dealt with it the best they could given their small force size and huge ‘beat’, but I expect they’ll get blamed for some aspect of their response. The news that medics were prevented, by H&S rules, from approaching victims for fear of Bird still being around is worrying.
As for the media? Well, they certainly love a tragedy and it riles me when they ask dumbass questions to ‘witnesses’. Maybe having 24 hour news at your fingertips is a bad thing…
A knee jerk reaction is guaranteed as is always the way with this country. One chap they interviewed on the morning news yesterday said that if you keep weapons at home you shouldn’t have immediate access to the ammunition. That kind of defeats the object of a farmer keeping a shotgun for pest control.What is the bloke supposed to do if he’s inundated with crows/foxes/ rabbits or whatever other pest is best dealt with by a shotgun? Send a request to his local cop shop 7 days in advanceAs one police department in the US pointed out back in the late 60s/ early 70s in reply to the anti gun lobby. If you outlaw guns only the outlaws will have guns. We’ve seen the proof of that statement in the escalation of handgun crime since this country banned the private ownership of handguns.
Also around the same time that remark was made The US ATTF bureau pointed out that the states with the highest private gun ownership were the states that had the lowest incidence of armed crime.
I agree that if Firearms are banned the nutters will find other ways of killing their victims.
By: pagen01 - 5th June 2010 at 19:42
Terrible event for all concerned, but my only question is this,
why didn’t the authorities actually use the loacal, or even national, media to report man on the rampage with a gun?
I was listening to Radio2, and there were odd bits of info here and there, but a general broadcast might have ensured a few people new about the situation, and could have been ready for it in some small way.
I agree with Bob, firearms laws can’t prevent what happened
By: Bob - 5th June 2010 at 19:27
No doubt it will result in some knee jerk reaction to the holding of firearms yet again.
Take away ALL the firearms and the unhinged will just find some other way of killing their victims…
It is a terrible event, and the poor old Cumbria Bill probably dealt with it the best they could given their small force size and huge ‘beat’, but I expect they’ll get blamed for some aspect of their response. The news that medics were prevented, by H&S rules, from approaching victims for fear of Bird still being around is worrying.
As for the media? Well, they certainly love a tragedy and it riles me when they ask dumbass questions to ‘witnesses’. Maybe having 24 hour news at your fingertips is a bad thing…
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