The Lone Ranger
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Another triumph for gun control - automatic weapons have been illegal in the UK since 1936. Strangely enough this hasn't received anywhere near the amount of publicity in the UK or I guess the States. Funny that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_859000/859574.stm
Nine people have been hurt after a gunman opened fire outside a nightclub in hat detectives believe may have been a Yardie incident involving Caribbean gangsters.
A 16-year-old girl was amongst those injured when the man fired shots from an automatic weapon outside the Chicago's nightclub in Peckham High Street, south east London.
The most seriously hurt was a man who suffered two chest wounds.
Four women were also caught in the attack and all received hospital treatment.
The incident took place at 0250BST as people queued outside the nightclub for a Jamaican sound system night.
An eyewitness queuing outside the club said:
"I heard the gunshot and ran away to hide and when I came out there were two women on the floor screaming.
"One woman had been shot through the arm and it looked like it had gone straight through and hit her side. The other woman had been shot in the leg."
'Innocent people'
Metropolitan police from Operation Trident, which tackles Yardie crimes, are investigating the attack.
Detective Superintendent Peter Camilletti is appealing for witnesses.
He said: "There are some innocent people caught up in the shooting.
"We do not yet know what the motive was for it. We have very few witnesses to this at the moment so we are appealing to witnesses and anyone who can tell us what happened."
He said the weapon appeared to have been an automatic gun, based on cartridges, found on the street.
A Peckham resident, who did not want to be named, said: "This area of High Street, where the club is, is known locally as the front line because this is the point people come to if they want to meet drug dealers who deal in crack and heroin."
He added: "Softer drugs are available elsewhere but this is where you get hard drugs."
Footage from CCTV cameras positioned outside the club will be examined by police and an incident room has been set up in Peckham.
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"Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.") -
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD).
[This message has been edited by The Lone Ranger (edited July 31, 2000).]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_859000/859574.stm
Nine people have been hurt after a gunman opened fire outside a nightclub in hat detectives believe may have been a Yardie incident involving Caribbean gangsters.
A 16-year-old girl was amongst those injured when the man fired shots from an automatic weapon outside the Chicago's nightclub in Peckham High Street, south east London.
The most seriously hurt was a man who suffered two chest wounds.
Four women were also caught in the attack and all received hospital treatment.
The incident took place at 0250BST as people queued outside the nightclub for a Jamaican sound system night.
An eyewitness queuing outside the club said:
"I heard the gunshot and ran away to hide and when I came out there were two women on the floor screaming.
"One woman had been shot through the arm and it looked like it had gone straight through and hit her side. The other woman had been shot in the leg."
'Innocent people'
Metropolitan police from Operation Trident, which tackles Yardie crimes, are investigating the attack.
Detective Superintendent Peter Camilletti is appealing for witnesses.
He said: "There are some innocent people caught up in the shooting.
"We do not yet know what the motive was for it. We have very few witnesses to this at the moment so we are appealing to witnesses and anyone who can tell us what happened."
He said the weapon appeared to have been an automatic gun, based on cartridges, found on the street.
A Peckham resident, who did not want to be named, said: "This area of High Street, where the club is, is known locally as the front line because this is the point people come to if they want to meet drug dealers who deal in crack and heroin."
He added: "Softer drugs are available elsewhere but this is where you get hard drugs."
Footage from CCTV cameras positioned outside the club will be examined by police and an incident room has been set up in Peckham.
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"Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.") -
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD).
[This message has been edited by The Lone Ranger (edited July 31, 2000).]
