Mayor Bans Tickets to Children for Olympic Shooting Events

[JohnRich 4]

News:

Children banned from shooting events in 2012 ticket giveaway

"London schoolchildren are eligible for 125,000 Olympic tickets but these will not include any featuring guns, as Games organisers and City Hall fear a backlash from the anti-gun lobby.

"Giving children tickets to the events, at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, could have appeared at odds with Mayor Boris Johnson's bid to quell teenage gun and knife crime.

"A source said: 'We decided it would not be appropriate. It's the only sport children will not be able to go to as part of the Ticketshare scheme...'"

Full story: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23980400-children-banned-from-shooting-events-in-2012-ticket-giveaway.do

Another gun-o-phobe bigot whose blind ignorance prevents him from seeing the difference between sport and crime. If it involves a gun, it's got to be evil, period!

[freethefly 6]

I'll say that this is a negative for gun owners. Sport shooting is not gun violence. They should encourage the positive aspect of ownership and responsibility. Some kids only see the negative use and that is all they learn.

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When you're out of the blue and into the black."
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[Skyrad 0]

Hes a popularist halfwit what can I say. By his reasoning he should ban tickets to the Fencing as it encourages knife crime The shooting community over here are pretty pissed off over it.

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[Andy9o8 3]

Unlike the toy gun buy-back in the other thread, I view this as a silly lack of ability to distinguish between weapons as tools of, and glorifying, violent conflict, and tools of sport.

Now back to my screening of Enter the Dragon.

[popsjumper 2]

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...Games organisers and City Hall fear a backlash from the anti-gun lobby.

'nuff said.
Maybe he should fear the ballot box more.

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[sacex250 0]

Clearly, this is backlash from the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only where a Biathalon competitor turned out to be an assassin. Obviously, the London Summer Olympics is being used as a cover for Al Qaida, or the CIA, to recruit the best potential international assassins.

It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

[JohnRich 4]

Update:

London 2012 Olympics: Locog reverses ban on schoolchildren getting free shooting tickets

"Outcry from the British Olympic Association, shooting organisations and athletes has forced Locog to open up its free Ticketshare tickets to shooting events to schoolchildren as well as other Ticketshare recipients like Tickets for Troops..."

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/shooting/8721693/London-2012-Olympics-Locog-reverses-ban-on-schoolchildren-getting-free-shooting-tickets.html

[Skyrad 0]

Good

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[kallend 2,183]

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Another gun-o-phobe bigot

When are you going to stop the baby talk and use "hoplophobe" like the grown ups?

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[JohnRich 4]

I guess personal insults are okay once again when done by liberals.