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THIS IS A TRUE LIFE STORY SENTANCING WAS THE 12TH OF SEPTEMBER 2024..!!

Jamal Hussain and friends

January twenty first, 2024 the above thugs burst.'
Into a shop in Wallsal town, two with axes smashing
Windows to the ground' then six of them stormed into this
Store, a multicultural vist.? I will add no more.' Their
Shotguns were fired nice and loud, to announce no doubt dilwali and they
Were'nt just an ordinary crowd.' then a stupid employee
Got in the way, of a shotgun blast..It hit his arm so they
Say?  Another was injured by trauma to the neck..' yet
Really..I ask what did they expect.? From an upwardly
Mobile gang about town, what the heck'  who eschewing permits just
Park and do.' Whatever is needed with unlicensed guns (too true!)
Yet they did get aprehended, that will put a hold on their
Fun..Jamal had escaped. Just after.' He left British shores' on the run
He never got extradited..That fact i can't ignore.! He was
Arrested when he got back to town, and for a space of
Nine years he has now been sent down, some of the others
Got five years others barely two..) and yet 'this is law?)
Heres what i'll tell you..' its five years in jail for each
Un-licensed gun..So if they had two? I make that ten years
Number one..' Next lets talk shells or bullets again it's
Five years per item.' Are you getting this plain.? Then theres
The robbery?? And illiegal parking to boot.' I just cant see
Much correlatilon..My reactiion is oh shoot..!
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DiMino Avatar
September 14, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Don't know about this one -- certainly tragic, evil. But license is a tax, eventually to tax you out of existence. Maybe 30 families on my block. I believe all are gun owners, except for a few; some guns passed down through the family for generations. Probably many have several guns to a household. 40 years on this neighborhood street. Never an incident that I am aware of. And I am friends with many.
Maverick Avatar
September 14, 2024 at 1:17 PM
In the U K through the decades On fun-fairs or Carny stalls USA and Australia, on a big set out you would find target stalls these Had live 22calibre rifles quite a Surprise to me' they were only short 22 bullets addmited.' they must have got phased out late 1980s?? Yet there was no trouble ( it was the Christian ethos being strong Then!) thanks Joe Dimino.)
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