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Rupert Lowe

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Yapper73 · 09/07/2026 19:09

To think he should resign for this blatant lie that suits his agenda. What an absolute arse.

He was on Joe Rogans podcast and the headlines are true. https://news.sky.com/story/fury-as-restore-britain-leader-rupert-lowe-describes-dunblane-tragedy-as-one-murder-13561888

This is from the transcript of the podcast. He actually said it - “ffectively, they are trying to make that very difficult through the licensing laws for guns. As you probably know, they banned handguns.
The 90s, right?
In the late 90s, because there was a murder up in Dunblane.
One murder.
One murder. So everybody, my father used to shoot pistols for Oxford University, and he had, he's dead now, bless him, but he had, all his pistols were taken away, the gun, the pistols he used to shoot with at Oxford University. I mean, we now have a society which needs radical change, and we need to release the individual.”

From The Joe Rogan Experience: #2524 - Rupert Lowe, 8 Jul 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272?i=1000775995609&r=1741
This material may be protected by copyright.

#2524 - Rupert Lowe

#2524 - Rupert Lowe

Podcast Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 8 July · 2h 10m

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2524-rupert-lowe/id360084272?i=1000775995609

OP posts:
Charys · 09/07/2026 19:44

I wonder why he’s talking to Americans about how the UK should allow guns. What is he up to?

Otherlands · 09/07/2026 19:45

@FunStork I suggest you acquaint yourself with what actually happened in Dunblane.
To use the word ‘irrelevant’ is utterly despicable.

There are people on this forum with direct connections to the children who were murdered that day 30 years ago and their families.
Show some respect. ( if you can)

As for Rupert Lowe, he’s beneath contempt.

JazzyJelly · 09/07/2026 19:46

That's sick, even for the god awful standards of politics today. He should apologise to the families, though I don't hold out any hope he will.

FunStork · 09/07/2026 19:46

user1471453601 · 09/07/2026 19:40

I find the "right to bear arms" concept ridiculous in 2026.

The biggest killer of children in the UK is cancer.

The biggest killer of children in the USA is guns.

If the UK had the ability to ban cancer in children,we'd do in a heartbeat.

But some in USA refuse to ban guns. 🙄

America has more many, many more guns than people. Aside from everything else, banning them wouldn't remove them. The comparison with eradicating cancer doesn't work.

millymollymoomoo · 09/07/2026 19:47

He’s a great man
and he speaks the truth unless our media, police and most politicians

thankfully someone does

QueenOfHiraeth · 09/07/2026 19:49

It's pretty stupid of him to make such a claim as it will obviously be picked up because many of us will always remember that day. Who holds MPs to account when they do stuff like this outside parliament? Is there something official?

I don't like him or his views but, having said that, if we demand MPs resign every time they make an incorrect statement, there'll be a lot of vacancies in Westminster.

https://fullfact.org/campaigns/mps-who-have-not-corrected-the-record/

MPs who have not corrected the record - Full Fact

Full Fact is the UK’s independent fact checking organisation

https://fullfact.org/campaigns/mps-who-have-not-corrected-the-record/

FunStork · 09/07/2026 19:49

Petrolitis · 09/07/2026 19:42

https://socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/resist-the-far-rights-racist-lies/

People don't like the man because he does morally bankrupt things like exploit the survivors of grooming gangs for his own far right agenda.

Hopefully the socialist worker isnt too middle class for you

I don't know if you've ever met anyone who works at the socialist worker but I can assure you - working class they are not.

TofuTheCat · 09/07/2026 19:49

FunStork · 09/07/2026 19:36

I think people are pretending to be upset about something irrelevant because they don't like the man who said it.

Labour and Green MPs say some truly offensive things every day and nobody cares.

You can ‘think’ all you want, and presume to tell me what I do and don’t believe.

You are also assuming those of us who find this repugnant are doing so on the basis of political beliefs.

His comments and how they have been received are not ‘irrelevant’ in any way, shape or form. In fact, in regards to his platform, I would say they are hugely relevant.

If he really stood for the rights of women and children to live in safety as he so frequently professes he does, he wouldn’t have diminished the horrific murders (plural) of young children at Dunblane.

And for the record, I would find those comments loathsome, no matter the political background of the person who said it.

dapsnotplimsolls · 09/07/2026 19:51

Charys · 09/07/2026 19:44

I wonder why he’s talking to Americans about how the UK should allow guns. What is he up to?

He wants funding from the US gun lobby etc.

Talkinpeace · 09/07/2026 19:51

Ask Saints fans what they think of Rupert the racist Lowe

vile man

FunStork · 09/07/2026 19:51

Otherlands · 09/07/2026 19:45

@FunStork I suggest you acquaint yourself with what actually happened in Dunblane.
To use the word ‘irrelevant’ is utterly despicable.

There are people on this forum with direct connections to the children who were murdered that day 30 years ago and their families.
Show some respect. ( if you can)

As for Rupert Lowe, he’s beneath contempt.

You must be livid about the 250,000 women and girls who were raped then?

Otherlands · 09/07/2026 19:56

@FunStork you appear to not care about the 16 murdered children and their teacher in Dunblane.

It isn’t possible to have a cogent discussion with someone who responds to that particular event with a completely different subject.

Whatever your motives are on this thread, it certainly doesn’t seem to be concern for women and children.

dapsnotplimsolls · 09/07/2026 19:56

FunStork · 09/07/2026 19:51

You must be livid about the 250,000 women and girls who were raped then?

Source for this figure?

JemimaTiggywinkles · 09/07/2026 19:57

Using the appalling crimes against women and girls as mitigation for downplaying the murder of other children is disgusting.

Yapper73 · 09/07/2026 19:58

QueenOfHiraeth · 09/07/2026 19:49

It's pretty stupid of him to make such a claim as it will obviously be picked up because many of us will always remember that day. Who holds MPs to account when they do stuff like this outside parliament? Is there something official?

I don't like him or his views but, having said that, if we demand MPs resign every time they make an incorrect statement, there'll be a lot of vacancies in Westminster.

https://fullfact.org/campaigns/mps-who-have-not-corrected-the-record/

It was not just incorrect it was willfully distorting the facts for his own gain in the US. To make the UK’s handgun laws seem extreme.

OP posts:
TofuTheCat · 09/07/2026 19:58

dapsnotplimsolls · 09/07/2026 19:51

He wants funding from the US gun lobby etc.

Yeah, as much as he seems to despise Farage, he also seems to be copying his tactic of cosying up to the US hard right.

Because neither he or Farage have any ability whatsoever to envisage a conservative-led future that doesn’t look like a carbon copy of America. Plus, it will line his own pockets nicely thanks, just like it does for Farage.

But hey, he’s the working person’s man of the people, right? He’s just like us!

He doesn’t give a flying fuck about ‘the people’.

randomchap · 09/07/2026 19:59

FunStork · 09/07/2026 19:39

I'm slightly more bothered about the 250,000 girls who were raped than him saying 'one murder' instead of 'one murderous act'.

You don't have to defend him, or deflect. You can say he's completely wrong in this respect and that doesn't change that report.

Charys · 09/07/2026 20:01

dapsnotplimsolls · 09/07/2026 19:51

He wants funding from the US gun lobby etc.

Isn’t he funded by Elon m? Did he say ‘ one murderer? ‘

Simonjt · 09/07/2026 20:08

millymollymoomoo · 09/07/2026 19:47

He’s a great man
and he speaks the truth unless our media, police and most politicians

thankfully someone does

I wouldn’t be quite so proud about outing yourself as a raging antisemite.

Lets hope a charity rowing event doesn’t have the misfortune of rowing past you.

MandingoAteMyBaby · 09/07/2026 20:09

FunStork · 09/07/2026 19:39

I'm slightly more bothered about the 250,000 girls who were raped than him saying 'one murder' instead of 'one murderous act'.

What 250,000 ? Where did you get that number from ?

dapsnotplimsolls · 09/07/2026 20:10

Charys · 09/07/2026 20:01

Isn’t he funded by Elon m? Did he say ‘ one murderer? ‘

He said 'one murder' and he said it twice.

dapsnotplimsolls · 09/07/2026 20:11

MandingoAteMyBaby · 09/07/2026 20:09

What 250,000 ? Where did you get that number from ?

Reddit probably.

LondonLass61 · 09/07/2026 20:16

He is from a certain class, many of whom love to shoot and who are very opposed to gun bans, fox hunting bans etc. The difference is, now, he feels confident enough to voice that opinion.
Banning guns after Dunblane is one of the best things that the uk has ever done and my USA friends often refer to it after school shootings over there.

noctilucentcloud · 09/07/2026 20:16

FunStork · 09/07/2026 19:27

Mumsnet - the middle class women's forum where a bloke doing a slip of the tongue in which he said 'one murder' instead of 'one series of murders' gets more coverage than the 250,000 working class women and girls who got raped that his report detailed.

Except he was asked if he meant one murder which would allow for a correction if he really meant one series of murders.

I have a few things I dislike about is speech. One is that he undermined the horrificness or Dunblane, another being that he equated his Dad's loss of his pistols to the orders of magnitude greater loss of the families in Dunblane, and also because he thinks gun laws should be rolled back when in my opinion we should all be grateful to those involved in the Snowdrop Campaign and that they achieved the ban.

TooBigForMyBoots · 09/07/2026 20:27

millymollymoomoo · 09/07/2026 19:47

He’s a great man
and he speaks the truth unless our media, police and most politicians

thankfully someone does

Hes a lying scumbag. One murder?🤯🤯🤯

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