Shooting ruins VWF London event
Organiser forced to cancel
AN EARLY morning shooting in a nightclub near London Bridge has put paid to the Virtual Worlds Forum. The area around the conference venue has been sealed off – forcing the organiser to cancel.
The incident apparently involved a 24-year-old man shot dead in the early hours of Sunday October 5th. One reason for closing off a large area around the SEOne club in Weston Street is that officers are searching for evidence from possible escape routes.
The organiser – the Virtual Economic Forum – was faced with less than 24 hours to find an alternative venue and so was forced to cancel.
The event had some pretty high-profile speakers including Mel Guymon from Google Lively.
So there's going to be some pretty cheesed off show goers hanging around the complimentary venue – the Hospital on Monday.
More information – including the date for a second attempt at the Forum – should eventually appear here. µ
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Impossible
Quite impossible - as everyone knows, guns are strictly outlawed in blighty, nobody has one and the country is perfectly safe. It would be illegal to possess a firearm, so for someone to have been shot, it must be false reporting.trolls
Hucklebuck, you're a terrible troll. Go find pastures new.Guns in the UK?
You're right someone strolled into the bar with a meter long shotgun and then ran away without being seen or identified. Still have shotguns in the blighty?@Hucklebuck
I'm not sure if you're a foreigner, or if it was just misguided sarcasm, but it is perfectly possible and legal to own firearms in the UK.The list of permitted weapons is rather more restricted than the USA, basically to those that have a justifiable public use, such as pest control. So basically shotguns and non automatic rifles. Handguns are more restricted, as small, easily concealed weapons have no place in pest control, and are really designed for personal protection, which any Londoner will tell you is perfectly covered by a large knife.
M16s and AK47s have no legitimate use, if you can't hit the rabbit with the first shot, you don't deserve to own a gun, so they're a strict no no.
Something like a 50 cal sniper rifle, although looking like a fantastic way to slot Mr Bunny through the head from a mile away, is also out, but I guess it might be nice to be able to find Mr Bunny to stick him in the pot, and not just find fluff scattered over 200 square yards of field.
@Hucklebuck
Gun deaths per 100,000 population per year:USA 3.92
UK 0.10
So, either it's because of the easy availability of guns, or Americans are an bunch of abnormally psychotic murdering bastards. Your choice!
Duh
Who would anyone want to shoot an innocent criminal (by reason of circumstance or environment)? Much more fun to shoot at a bunny and watch them struggle in their last breaths of life. Self-defense is so over-rated.Gee I wish I were such an enlightened "troll" so I would know what is an acceptable gun, because I thought ALL guns were bad. Take a good person, give him/her a gun, bam - instant BAD person (oops, I mean "psychotic murdering b*stard").
I'm pefectly happy to rely on police and govt to take care of me. They do a wonderful job, day in and day out. They all deserve huge pay raises - so go ahead, boys, vote yourselves a big one today.
At least I'm smart enough to know that the end justifies the means, so I can ignore any data or reasons to own a gun. Remember that is is perfectly OK to bend the truth so long as it supports my point of view, because my truth is the ONLY truth that matters.
HB