Norman Tebbit’s Plan To Cull Gun Culture
“TEBBIT: TEACH ALL BOYS TO SHOOT.”
It’s the Sunday’s Express’ front-page news, and the headline of the year.
“Tory peer Lord Tebbit wants to tackle Britain’s gun culture by teaching boys how to shoot.”
Isn’t it time we brought back National Service, let the lads take the Empire shooting test, perhaps at each other?
Little changes about Norman Tebbit. A picture proves Tebbit to look very much as he did in the pomp, all skin, hollowed cheeks and pied dog hair.
One thing that has altered is that Tebbit plan provides for free bullets, based on hand-outs not earnings, a reversal on the former Conservative Party chairman’s traditional position.
Says Tebbit:
“Kids should go out on shoots. It gives them a sense of excitement and kids, particularly young boys, have a need for a degree of violence.
“It is much better than playing a ghastly computer game. To have them struggling through the brambles, seeing people shoot is much more in the interest of the kids.
“Boys would soon find themselves in a man’s world and having to obey instructions.”
It’s an idea. But there is a suspicion that the strategy is a ruse to cull the hoodies and reduce the country’s Asbo mountain.
Look out for jousting-style tournaments, in which lads get on their bikes and cycle towards each other with guns blazing…
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
As usual the PC brigade have fired off at a perfectly good suggestion without reading what was actually said. Boys are different to girls in temperament and need a little excitment. I used the money from my paper round to go on the school skiing trip and to go on climbing and mountaineering expeditions. The thrill of participating in such activities meant that I couldn’t see the interest some lads in my home city of Coventry had in picking fights on a Friday night. The biggest thugs were the ones who’d barely left the streets in which they had grown up.
Most of the guys in the air cadets (half of whom, in north Coventry, were from ethnic minorities) or army cadets went on to better things and I don’t recall any getting into trouble with the police.
It saddens me to see so many young people wasting time on computer games when they should be falling out of trees or cycling to distant villages.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
the sooner they fall out of trees the better
February 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Behind Tebbitt’s verbiage is an age old idea ie groom the youth into becoming cannon fodder to be sent abroad to fight Johnny Foreigner and bring back lots of booty for the ruling class. The fact that Tebbitt is saying this while there is a recruitment crisis in the British Army coupled with the ruling class’s imperialist ambitions (Iraq, Afganistan, Iran etc etc) is no accident.