(Shhh! Nobody tell Robb Allen that I swiped his icon)
Since guns are very tightly controlled in Ireland, we know that this story must be false.
A young man who was made hold a weapons cache, including a machine gun and silencer, because he had run up a drug debt with a criminal gang has been jailed for five years.This was the second time Karl Bowes (24) had been caught with a weapon which he claimed he was made hold. In 2007 he received community service for possession of a handgun which he said was given to him by people he was “in fear of”.
Bowes of Connolly Lodge, Buckingham Street, pleaded guilty to possession of a Czech-made Luger revolver and a “knock off” Ingram “Mac 10” machine gun at his family home at Clonshaugh Drive, Coolock on June 6, 2010.
He was also found with a magazine for the machine gun, six handgun bullets, 33 machine gun bullets and a silencer.
Bowes of Connolly Lodge, Buckingham Street, pleaded guilty to possession of a Czech-made Luger revolver and a “knock off” Ingram “Mac 10” machine gun at his family home at Clonshaugh Drive, Coolock on June 6, 2010.
He was also found with a magazine for the machine gun, six handgun bullets, 33 machine gun bullets and a silencer.
How is it possible that a tiny island like Ireland has drug criminals forcing innocent drug users to hold machine guns? It’s almost like the newspaper story is trying to tell me that gun control has failed.
The stated purpose of gun control is to stop gun violence. Since there are obviously drug gangs with machine guns and silencers running about, then the only conclusion that I can reach is that Irish gun control was only successful in disarming the people, not the criminals. And that can’t be the purpose, can it?
* Dermot Ahern was the Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. He was adamant that no Irish Gun Culture™ be allowed to arise. He banned all “practical” shooting like IDPA and IPSC.
