Man shot three times in street - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt

[bijou]

I posted this for the title. This is written by a journalist who knows nothing about guns and it seems to me that the racist tirade was not necessarily prompted by the t-shirt. 

A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.
Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend 'Believe'.
The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting 'I f***ing hate n*****s' and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.
 
The man then left the shop but when Mr Egwuatu re-emerged, the attacker was waiting for him in broad daylight with a threatening-looking dog and holding a gun behind his back.
Realising what had sparked the increasingly violent assault, the terrified Mr Egwuatu zipped up his jacket to cover the image of Mr Obama and walked to his car.
But the shaven-headed man, who was white,  followed Mr Egwuatu and after pulling open the passenger door pointed the gun at him.
After pleading with the man to leave him alone, the married former street warden put the keys in the ignition and turned the engine on.
The attacker then fired the gas-powered ball-bearing pistol three times, hitting the civil servant in the face, hand and shoulder.
Fearing for his life and bleeding heavily, Mr Egwuatu raced away in his car and found somewhere safe to call for help.
He was taken to hospital and later sent to have a piece of metal removed from his jaw.
Mr Egwuatu, a data analyst with Croydon Council, said: 'The venom in his voice was frightening.
'He was telling me that he was going to kill me.
'I couldn't believe it was happening - and just because I was wearing an Obama T-shirt.
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The whole world loves Obama

[thundley4]

But the shaven-headed man, who was white,

Pretty sure they have skin-heads/neo-Nazis in London.  The Obama shirt may have just been one trigger for the guy to shoot the victim with a B-B gun.

[bijou]

Pretty sure they have skin-heads/neo-Nazis in London.  The Obama shirt may have just been one trigger for the guy to shoot the victim with a B-B gun.

Oh there are around, I'd be surprised looking at the shirt that the assailant would have been tipped over the edge by it more that the victim was black.  Possible though.

[JohnnyReb]

Assault BB guns must be outlawed.[dummie/mode].

The disenfranchized youths of London must be properly armed.[my/mode]

[Lanie]

Assault BB guns must be outlawed.[dummie/mode].

The disenfranchized youths of London must be properly armed.[my/mode]

I say make guns legal there and encourage everybody to have a gun so they can shoot racists who want to shoot them.

[Chris_]

I say make guns legal there and encourage everybody to have a gun so they can shoot racists who want to shoot them.

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzt.  Wrong answer Bridget.  Thanks for playing anyway.

Guns will NOT be made legal there, because their lordships - the ones who are in charge of things there - are made nervous when their SUBJECTS are armed over there.

That's the difference between SUBJECTS and CITIZENS.

Give it 10 years more, and the only ones with the guns in the Islamic Caliphate of Great Britain will be the Morality Squads empowered to make sure those cheeky Brits are completely covered by the Burhka.

[bijou]

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzt.  Wrong answer Bridget.  Thanks for playing anyway.

Guns will NOT be made legal there, because their lordships - the ones who are in charge of things there - are made nervous when their SUBJECTS are armed over there.

That's the difference between SUBJECTS and CITIZENS.

Give it 10 years more, and the only ones with the guns in the Islamic Caliphate of Great Britain will be the Morality Squads empowered to make sure those cheeky Brits are completely covered by the Burhka.

Actually the Lords (the second chamber of Parliament) are the most supportive of gun ownership.  It has been the elected members of the Commons who have tried to put an end to legal gun ownership. The Royal Family have been great supporters of both hunting and sports shooting I would take my chances with the Royals any time over the mealy mouthed socialists currently in power (and soon to be in charge of you if Obama wins). What scares me about Obama is how similar he is to the Labour leadership. 

BTW muslims make up 3% of the UK population even they can't breed that quickly.

[Chris_]

Sorry Bijou, I should have been more clear.

Lately I've been referring to our Congress-shits here in the states - "representatives" and Senators alike - as their Lordships, for their blatent attitude of indifference and superiority to those who put them in their offices in the first damned place.  When I was using the reference "Their Lordships" I should have been more clear that it was in this context I was using the term, not the context of a specific reference to the House of Lords.

BTW muslims make up 3% of the UK population even they can't breed that quickly.

The muslims don't have to breed themselves a majority, just continue to threaten and cow the rest of y'all into silence as they move your government, history and traditions closer and closer to the shackles of Sharia.