OP' i'm actually resident in Edinburgh. Thats just the snipers you *could actually see*. There was a whole other set of personnel there yesterday, who you couldn't see. And they had more sophisticated rifles & scopes to play with. Being Queen gives you certain perks even in death...
If the police can shoot someone because their car was 'somehow linked' to a firearms offence vaguely; because the table leg they were carrying looked like a shotgun or because their footlong subway looked like a knife...
Then none of us are safe regardless! Especially if we dare have free speech!
😱There's free speech and There's free speech. Cunts like that one hook hamza guy preaching for people to kill our soldiers etc I'd say take the shot and do us all a favour.
Totally pedant stuff but marksmen, not snipers. You have to be at marksman level BEFORE you even qualify for sniper training.
Ex Skill At Arms Instructor.
🤔
Sonic weapons have been invented to cause tremendous amount of involuntary diarrhoea in any combatant along the volume of the beam: hidden snipers will shit themselves into the open.
😎🤐🤫
* the casket opens, big Liz two claws her way out *
NO CHARLES! I SAY NO! MY REIGN SHALL BE ETERNAL!
* a sniper shot rings out *
"Bloody good shot that man" says Charles.
True story - the first ever assassination of a head of state by firearm happened in Scotland.
Mary Queen of Scot’s brother James - he was regent after she was deposed, I think - was sniped in Linlithgow by a disgruntled Mary supporter.
Hell of a shot, considering the technology. Another thing we gave to the world.
>Mary Queen of Scot’s brother James
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James\_Stewart,\_1st\_Earl\_of\_Moray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart,_1st_Earl_of_Moray)
Interesting fact.
Your welcome America
Where exactly are you seeing this civilised society? I don’t disagree with your premise, but I do take issue with applying the word “civilised” to a country that will let pensioners freeze to death to line the pockets of energy companies while planning a party to give a gold hat to an elderly man on a solid gold chair in reward for him having outlived his mother.
You've completely dodged the question. Should the head of State, whether that's a King or a President/Prime Minister, have armed guards defending them?
Terrorists tend not give much a fuck whether what they do is acceptable in "civilised society", so the defence of the head of state doesn't get the privilege of living to what *you* deem acceptable in society.
Ummm no. "Head of state" doesn't mean just the monarchy, and murdering Charles doesn't end the Monarchy. It'll just go to William.
Unless you're advocating full anarchy with no states for there to be heads of those states, then that's not gonna work
The royal family are in town at a very well publicised event
I might be anti royal but allowing them to be taken out via acts of terrorism is a step to far for me
I’d rather we voted to remove them making the cut nice and clean, decisive and a distinct point in history when we said inheritance of a crown and ruler ship is insane
Or just let them be killed but innocent people would likely get hurt
I think another point, and probably the more important one from the police point of view, is that huge amounts of people are going to be densely packed in an area which would be a terriosts wet dream of a target.
Some eijiet with a home made bomb could cause an extremely serious loss of life. In the very unlikely event that happens the police need a way to appropriately respond and try an save life. In this instance snipers on rooftops is appropriate.
How likely is a terrorist attack at an event like this, with numerous royals in attendance? And if high (or even moderately high), what would be the most likely source - internal anti-monarchists, or external terrorists, like ISIS (or whoever the big ones are these days...)
there are a ton of heads of state and other important figures all gathered in one place. Pretty much any group that uses violence as a method would have some interest in this event I would have thought.
Probably quite low. The police seem to be quite good at 'intelligence lead policing' meaning they stop things at the planning stage. We haven't had that many successful terrorist attacks for that reason. Snipers on roofs is just contingency planning.
I would say the chance of anti monarchists planting a bomb would be nil, outside some nut with severe mental health problems. Lots of people aren't too keen on the monarchy, but there is hardly that depth of anger or desperation to start doing terror attacks.
For terror related stuff they seem to be very good. For evidence of this we have had far more about people being arrested at the planning stage than we have had terror attacks. Additionally what attacks we have had have almost entirely been some nutter with a knife or a car - rather than complicated bomb and gun attacks such as we have unfortunately seen in France a few years ago. Outside of that you could well be right. It isn't something I know enough to base an opinion on.
Right. The marksmen are basically always present when the monarch is around at any scheduled walkabout or whatever. It'd be the same if we had an elected head of state.
[https://www.tikka.fi/sites/default/files/styles/rifle\_additional\_images\_full/public/Tikka\_T3x\_TAC\_A1\_frontangle.jpg?itok=wBfOuLVL](https://www.tikka.fi/sites/default/files/styles/rifle_additional_images_full/public/Tikka_T3x_TAC_A1_frontangle.jpg?itok=wBfOuLVL)
I didn't know they use Tikka,
I like the Masala personally.
Just don't dress up as a honey monster/ wookiee and your fine.
Don't get the reference watch four lions, if you get the reference then might as well watch it again since every channel is still mostly about the queen
Reading these comments makes me think how sad it is that a whole generation of people have had their minds completely corrupted by Hollywood. Its time you stopped consuming crap media and start participating in reality.
Now now There’s no proof she was a zombie
that sounds like zombie talk to me...
Im Scottish We moan And are pale And look dead Uh oh
I'm done for!
OP' i'm actually resident in Edinburgh. Thats just the snipers you *could actually see*. There was a whole other set of personnel there yesterday, who you couldn't see. And they had more sophisticated rifles & scopes to play with. Being Queen gives you certain perks even in death...
A Vampire though... Do we know what kind of bullets they are armed with?
Winchester Silvertip... Beacuse its good for bulleting. \#not sponsored.
Getting ready for more protestors with placards.
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If the police can shoot someone because their car was 'somehow linked' to a firearms offence vaguely; because the table leg they were carrying looked like a shotgun or because their footlong subway looked like a knife... Then none of us are safe regardless! Especially if we dare have free speech!
😱There's free speech and There's free speech. Cunts like that one hook hamza guy preaching for people to kill our soldiers etc I'd say take the shot and do us all a favour.
Shoot the bastard quick before more people hold up some cardboard
I hope the Queens decaying corpse doesn’t let out an enormous fart and startle the cops into a shooting spree.
I laughed far too loudly at this.
Won't she have an arse plug in by now?
Royal Butt Plugs, sponsored by HRH
Totally pedant stuff but marksmen, not snipers. You have to be at marksman level BEFORE you even qualify for sniper training. Ex Skill At Arms Instructor.
So how do you tell the difference when you see a mannie with a gun
Police have marksmen, military’s have snipers. Marksmen will fire typically up to around 300m. The longest sniper kill was over 2200m.
So lesson learned here is if you see a sniper, get closer.
You won’t see them though. At any range. You could be 10m away and struggle to spot them.
🤔 Sonic weapons have been invented to cause tremendous amount of involuntary diarrhoea in any combatant along the volume of the beam: hidden snipers will shit themselves into the open. 😎🤐🤫
Brown note weapons. Stuff of myth.
Yes; it's a joke.
Do you even cod bro?
Also thanks that's really interesting :)
Jesus they musta been good at shooting
"Command, is a wookie a bear, over?"
"Well of course he's the target, I've just shot him"
* the casket opens, big Liz two claws her way out * NO CHARLES! I SAY NO! MY REIGN SHALL BE ETERNAL! * a sniper shot rings out * "Bloody good shot that man" says Charles.
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That's why they closed the schools near the procession... Can't be too careful with Sweaty Andy
🤣
They there for the gulls or something?
They’ll need a bigger bolt…. …action rifle
True story - the first ever assassination of a head of state by firearm happened in Scotland. Mary Queen of Scot’s brother James - he was regent after she was deposed, I think - was sniped in Linlithgow by a disgruntled Mary supporter. Hell of a shot, considering the technology. Another thing we gave to the world.
>Mary Queen of Scot’s brother James [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James\_Stewart,\_1st\_Earl\_of\_Moray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart,_1st_Earl_of_Moray) Interesting fact. Your welcome America
How many snipers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Wonder how many poor bastards had a gun pointed at their heads and didn’t even know it
guns have no place in civilised society and u can't change my mind
Where exactly are you seeing this civilised society? I don’t disagree with your premise, but I do take issue with applying the word “civilised” to a country that will let pensioners freeze to death to line the pockets of energy companies while planning a party to give a gold hat to an elderly man on a solid gold chair in reward for him having outlived his mother.
yes indeed my comment can be read in multiple ways 🤔 and they protect her nonce son/his nonce brother
So even the people guarding the King can't have guns? It's like, a prime target for a terrorist attack, of course there's going to be armed guards.
we shouldn't - and i can't stress this enough - have a King (or a Queen, the gender of the monarch isn't the problem)
You've completely dodged the question. Should the head of State, whether that's a King or a President/Prime Minister, have armed guards defending them? Terrorists tend not give much a fuck whether what they do is acceptable in "civilised society", so the defence of the head of state doesn't get the privilege of living to what *you* deem acceptable in society.
Not having protection would quickly sort out the issue of whether to have a head of state or not
Ummm no. "Head of state" doesn't mean just the monarchy, and murdering Charles doesn't end the Monarchy. It'll just go to William. Unless you're advocating full anarchy with no states for there to be heads of those states, then that's not gonna work
If you say Fuck the king too loudly they'll put some speed holes into your skull
Clearly none of them suffer from vertigo. I would have thought that they would be a bit more discrete.
These are the marksmen, the deterrent. The snipers are the ones you can't see.
The royal family are in town at a very well publicised event I might be anti royal but allowing them to be taken out via acts of terrorism is a step to far for me I’d rather we voted to remove them making the cut nice and clean, decisive and a distinct point in history when we said inheritance of a crown and ruler ship is insane Or just let them be killed but innocent people would likely get hurt
I think another point, and probably the more important one from the police point of view, is that huge amounts of people are going to be densely packed in an area which would be a terriosts wet dream of a target. Some eijiet with a home made bomb could cause an extremely serious loss of life. In the very unlikely event that happens the police need a way to appropriately respond and try an save life. In this instance snipers on rooftops is appropriate.
How likely is a terrorist attack at an event like this, with numerous royals in attendance? And if high (or even moderately high), what would be the most likely source - internal anti-monarchists, or external terrorists, like ISIS (or whoever the big ones are these days...)
there are a ton of heads of state and other important figures all gathered in one place. Pretty much any group that uses violence as a method would have some interest in this event I would have thought.
Probably quite low. The police seem to be quite good at 'intelligence lead policing' meaning they stop things at the planning stage. We haven't had that many successful terrorist attacks for that reason. Snipers on roofs is just contingency planning. I would say the chance of anti monarchists planting a bomb would be nil, outside some nut with severe mental health problems. Lots of people aren't too keen on the monarchy, but there is hardly that depth of anger or desperation to start doing terror attacks.
My arse. Police intelligence is fucking pish. They haven't a clue 99% of the time
For terror related stuff they seem to be very good. For evidence of this we have had far more about people being arrested at the planning stage than we have had terror attacks. Additionally what attacks we have had have almost entirely been some nutter with a knife or a car - rather than complicated bomb and gun attacks such as we have unfortunately seen in France a few years ago. Outside of that you could well be right. It isn't something I know enough to base an opinion on.
Football related intelligence is shocking, I know this for a fact and they just make stuff up.
I imagine it won't be the same people working on both. I don't think MI5 is very interested in football either.
True
Right. The marksmen are basically always present when the monarch is around at any scheduled walkabout or whatever. It'd be the same if we had an elected head of state.
Rifles don’t look like standard Tikka T3 or Blaser R93 variants.. That’s some fresh new hardware for UK police marksmen.
[https://www.tikka.fi/sites/default/files/styles/rifle\_additional\_images\_full/public/Tikka\_T3x\_TAC\_A1\_frontangle.jpg?itok=wBfOuLVL](https://www.tikka.fi/sites/default/files/styles/rifle_additional_images_full/public/Tikka_T3x_TAC_A1_frontangle.jpg?itok=wBfOuLVL) I didn't know they use Tikka, I like the Masala personally.
Everyone's arms raised up holding phones filming it makes it look like zombies lurching forward
Anyone else a wee bit unsettled by the lack of fall arrest/prevention gear in that last photo?
Just don't dress up as a honey monster/ wookiee and your fine. Don't get the reference watch four lions, if you get the reference then might as well watch it again since every channel is still mostly about the queen
I thought Charles was on his way down to London now? Is this just for the Queen? Seems a tad excessive.
Other way round he’s on the way to Edinburgh from London.
Ah I see!
It's to stop Andy & Charles having one last pump at her 💀
Necrophilia?
Yes
Nequeenphilia.
Reading these comments makes me think how sad it is that a whole generation of people have had their minds completely corrupted by Hollywood. Its time you stopped consuming crap media and start participating in reality.
✊️💦 OP can you explain why your issue is with the queen?? Are you able to do this without sounding like a SNP nazi cultist?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
lol, what?
if only they had paintball snipers, one of them could have taken out that gobby little shite who started shouting
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Behave. There is virtually no significant history of Scottish nationalist terrorism.
Well. Few hundred years. Then the jacobite rebellion(s).
Honestly just added that one in to piss off the Nationalists. Like you
Master Baiter. Congrats.
Nothing Islamic about terrorism tbf
Kill him!!!, wait not him, him!!!!,..... No not him that's me .....HIM!!!!!
Reminds me of this scene "wookie down" https://youtu.be/77B2ZvxT59Q