The 'Weirder' Side Of News!

[Ninurta]

I know death by crossbow is not unheard of, but 3 kills?!

"3 women killed in crossbow attack [at their home] were wife & 2 daughters of BBC & Sky racing commentator John Hunt. Bloody horrible.


Sky news

the only thing i can figure is each one hung around trying to help the others. that or he was a crossbow loading fool, or it was a repeating crossbow.

Repeating Adder Crossbow 130 lb Cross Bow with 5 Shot auto-loading Magazine Includes 15 Carbon Arrows Bolts. Urban Preppers, Bushcraft, Home Defense, Target Shooters, Small Game Bow Hunting


in this link there is a video on the English version
Cobra Adder R-Series Tactical Repeating Crossbow (V2 Magazine Bundle)

i also found in the sky news that their already going after crossbows.
here's the link hope it works, links your link you have to go down to the second post from 4 hrs ago.

Home secretary to 'swiftly consider' findings of crossbow law review

I've not had all my coffee yet, but I still managed to wrangle a couple of thoughts about this incident.

That's the problem with "commonsense gun control" - the next thing you know, you have to also start looking into "commonsense crossbow control", "commonsense knife control", commonsense crowbar control", "commonsense claw hammer control", and a host of other "commonsense" controls as bad guys simply move on to other implements of destruction to work their nefarious deeds. When will they look into common sense "commonsense control"? Maybe some "commonsense criminal control"? When will they start punishing criminals for their criminal acts rather than inanimate objects? And people wonder why I think the world is going to hell in a handbasket...

In one of the articles about the repeating crossbow, I saw the line, right at the beginning, that said "This might be the biggest innovation in the crossbow market ever – the Cobra Adder crossbow changes everything" "Innovation" and "changes everything" my ass. Repeating crossbows have been a thing for centuries already. Just day before yesterday, I was perusing a book titled "A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and In All Times Together With Some Closely Related Subjects" By George Cameron Stone. In it, just two days ago, I ran across an entry for a Chinese repeating crossbow that has been around for centuries. It apparently operates on the same principle as the "tactical Cobra" crossbow, with a sliding magazine cartridge operated by a lever that cocks, loads, and fires the crossbow. The ONLY difference is that the Chinese version had a top lever where this Cobra thingy has a bottom lever. Hardly "innovative" or "changing everything".

This gentleman was SO inept at killing, SO ineffectual at life, that even with a repeating crossbow, he had to TIE THESE WOMEN UP before he could hit them with his crossbow. That kinda negates the use of a crossbow at all - once he had them tied up, he could have killed them with anything at all... he could have choked them to death with a spool of sewing thread at that point. Can we get some "commonsense sewing thread control"? No damned wonder that his superiors in the military were "unimpressed" with him and drummed his inept-at-life ass right out! I feel like it's entirely possible that he may not last long in prison...

I recall another crossbow incident in the UK a few years ago. As I recall, it was a woman who defended herself from an attack with a crossbow, and who got in trouble for it. Apparently, in the UK they love their criminals as much as we do in the US, and will pass any law conceivable, no matter how ridiculous or misplaced, in order to protect them and keep them safe from their intended victims, up to and including outlawing any conceivable mechanical device that may inhibit the criminal's predatory attacks.

Now, in this case it was the miscreant who was armed (unnecessarily I might add, since he tied the victims up anyhow before doing them in - he could have tickled them to death with feathers after that! "Commonsense feather control"!)... but I can't help but wonder how it might have went if A) these women had been allowed to be armed with, say, a 9mm "equalizer" - how fares a crossbow wielding maniac against  several rounds of 9mm? and B) they had been allowed, under UK law, to defend themselves against violent attack in the first place?

I dunno. I just don't know. This clown world seems to have turned upside down so far that it appears to be right side up to some folks.

I'm just not one of them.

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