Nigel Farage behaviour during talk about Dunblane shooting

[MikeRafone]

Whatever anyone thinks of handguns, 5 year olds died due to gun shot injuries and some respect should be shown by all MPs whatever side they represent

as he sat during the talk smirking

The ban on handguns after the Dunblane tragedy was a "kneejerk reaction"

In 2014, as Ukip leader, he said the ban on handguns brought in after Dunblane was “ludicrous” and should be lifted, arguing handguns ought to be legalised and licensed again.
Restrictions on small arms put in place after the massacre were a “kneejerk” response, Farage said at the time.
Farage claimed there was “almost no link” between “sensible, decent people” keeping handguns under a licensing system and gun crime on the streets, and insisted repealing the ban would not send gun crime back to “Gunchester”‑era levels.
He summed up his position by saying: “We need a proper gun licensing system…and I think the ban on handguns is ludicrous.”

So now we have a knife crime epidemic.

What now, a ban on knives ?

Isn't there a movement to ban pointy knives? That's a good idea.

farage is a shyster and a POS

I don't know, is there ?

He’s vile and I’m sick of him toadying up to the orange man over the pond.

I wonder how safe Nigel would feel if his words became reality? His habit of making the most controversial comments he can think of might be a risky business in a world where the audience was armed.

Only a few enthusiasts made a fuss, they were very much in the minority. When the ban on semi automatic weapons came in, everyone really agreed it was a good idea.

My uncle used to shoot and had numerous semi automatic pistols, which he surrendered without complaint.

I’m glad he sat there smirking. I’m glad people can see what he is. The more he acts in this way the more his popularity will decline. He’s over confident and he’s now misjudging his own reactions he’s that sure of himself but people aren’t stupid.

He's not smirking. He can't help what his face does.

Many females have a RBF and can't help it.

*"Resting bitch face"

How about this one?

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other/angela-rayner-seen-smirking-as-rachel-reeves-is-seen-crying/vi-AA1HQNcU

and this

I mean knives at least have a normal functional purpose, how many people have a need for a gun in the home? Also you can kill an awful lot more people with a gun than a knife.
How many mass shootings do they have in America, if these people only had access to knives, far less people would die.

@Berriesandcucumbers1 "How many mass shootings do they have in America, if these people only had access to knives, far less people would die."

So you'd prefer that people were stabbed not shot ? 😮Really?

I'd prefer that they didn't get injured/killed at all.

@Biggermommabear That wasn't RBF, though, that was a definite smirk from Farage.

If Rachel Reeves has done it too, feel free start a separate thread about it? It's pretty obvious you're trying to deflect from the fact that he smirked when a victim of the Dunblane massacre was mentioned, and that he thinks the handgun ban brought in after Dunblane was ludricrous.

He is so influenced by American politics that he's struggling to remember what the British public believes in. Despite what he says, we're fine with the handgun ban. We don't want to be dragged into yet another war in the Middle East by the US. We don't want privatised healthcare. We don't want changes to our abortion law in favour of making it harder for woman to have abortions. He is so out of touch with the British public. That's what's ludicrous.

It won't make any difference to his groupies.

@Biggermommabear Just in case you're not playing, but genuinely have trouble understanding things: everyone would prefer that no one get hurt. Knife crime needs to be eradicated

But guns are far more dangerous than knives and far less useful in everyday life.

He's right that the ban on hand guns was a knee jerk reaction and excessive - just politicians gesturing, as they do. But what's done is done, we are where we are and I don't see any point in going back now. I think current gun laws in the UK are about right, although the firearms licencing is getting ever more stringent, and now a bit OTT.

Very true but it might make the politically homeless think twice.

Not OTT enough. Currently only the applicant needs to have verified good MH etc when I think it should be ALL adults in the household where a gun is kept that are vetted

He's right that the ban on hand guns was a knee jerk reaction and excessive

No, he isn't and no, it wasn't.

What on earth is the purpose of hand guns? Why would anyone in this country need or expect one? Totally different to shot guns for shooting game, for example.

And hand guns in safe hands would very quickly end up in unsafe hands.

As do knives. but we need knives for various applications.

What we don't need are zombie knives - and these should be banned alongside handguns.

FYI, Farage Defenders, there is a mother on MN who lost her 5 year old at Dunblane. She posted this week.

That was my initial reaction. Then I remembered Trump mocking the disabled journalist. Around same time as the tape of his boasting about grabbing women ' by the pussy'. Back then I thought this behaviour would scupper his chances of election.

Sadly I doubt Farage's callous indifference to the victims and bereaved of Dunblane will really affect him - outside Scotland. His general incompetence, inconsistency and flip flops on the Iran war could hurt him though. Although in one sense it is all of a piece? The gun lobby has powerful US backing.

The USA has a higher rate of stabbing deaths than the UK, despite their ludicrously permissive attitude to guns.

There was a thread this week from the mother of a child killed in the Dunblane Massacre. Her post was heartbreaking, dignified and displayed great strength and grace.❤️

The comparison to the odious Farage couldn't be more striking.

Sadly I doubt Farage's callous indifference to the victims and bereaved of Dunblane will really affect him

Callous indifference is basically his brand, so sadly you're right.

Exactly this. Innocent children lost their lives, families were totally devastated, and somehow a ban on handguns is 'a knee jerk reaction?'

Who are these people who can think like this?