Codrea's Column

It's hard enough finding time to read other blogs at the moment let alone looking over my own page. Today I was looking for a past post and realised that another one I'd written hadn't been published. Quite possibly the result of Firefox crashing on my antiquated and temperamental PC- "restore session" doesn't always work. Anyway, here it is now-

Back in March of this year War on Guns and myself followed the story of an old woman in her home who was being threatened by a hammer attack. She called the police but they didn't show up for 24 hours- apparently they had more pressing cases to deal with at the time, cases of such importance that they didn't even rate mention in the press. The story itself was ignored by the British media by and large, with not a single journalist showing any interest in why a defenceless member of the public was left alone by the authorities in the face of what could have developed into a lethal attack. Well, David Codrea has written about the case in his latest column for Guns magazine:

So much for disarmed subjects of the crown relying on the police for protection. But what could be more important than an octogenarian under potentially lethal and immediate attack? Police departments, after all, have limited resources. Perhaps there was a critical emergency endangering more lives and a tough decision had to be made? A riot? A terrorist act? A fire?

Well, no, actually.

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