Another British MP murdered

[Doctor Phibes]

MP David Amess Dies after stabbing

This is the second such killing in the space of 5 years

"Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex.

Police said a man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the stabbing at a church in Leigh-on-Sea.

They said they recovered a knife and were not looking for anyone else in connection to the incident.

Sir David, 69, had been an MP since 1983 and was married with five children."

[bachophile]

Horrible

[George K]

@bachophile said in Another British MP murdered:

Horrible

Indeed.

Motive?

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

@bachophile said in Another British MP murdered:

Horrible

Indeed.

Motive?

The only details about the suspect I've seen are that he was a 25 year-old man.

[Catseye3]

Something cosmically unfair about such an end after a long service.

RIP, Sir David.

[Jolly]

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

@bachophile said in Another British MP murdered:

Horrible

Indeed.

Motive?

The only details about the suspect I've seen are that he was a 25 year-old man.

Muslim?

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in Another British MP murdered:

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

@bachophile said in Another British MP murdered:

Horrible

Indeed.

Motive?

The only details about the suspect I've seen are that he was a 25 year-old man.

Muslim?

They're not saying anything. He doesn't look like an obvious choice for any kind of politically or terrorist motivated killing - he was relatively low profile, essentially a professional back bench MP of long-standing.

[Doctor Phibes]

Now they're saying Islamic terrorism...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372)

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

Now they're saying Islamic terrorism...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372)

First they came for the bows and arrows, but I said nothing...

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

Now they're saying Islamic terrorism...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372)

First they came for the bows and arrows, but I said nothing...

Do you honestly think arming everybody would make things better?

Not sure about the bows and arrows comment - that was Norway, not the UK. This guy used a knife.

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

Do you honestly think arming everybody would make things better?
Not sure about the bows and arrows comment - that was Norway, not the UK. This guy used a knife.

Killers gotta kill.

That's sort of my point.

[Jolly]

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

Now they're saying Islamic terrorism...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372)

First they came for the bows and arrows, but I said nothing...

Do you honestly think arming everybody would make things better?

Not sure about the bows and arrows comment - that was Norway, not the UK. This guy used a knife.

The guy in Norway was a Muslim.

[George K]

@jolly said in Another British MP murdered:

The guy in Norway was a Muslim.

You're a racist.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in Another British MP murdered:

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

Now they're saying Islamic terrorism...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372)

First they came for the bows and arrows, but I said nothing...

Do you honestly think arming everybody would make things better?

Not sure about the bows and arrows comment - that was Norway, not the UK. This guy used a knife.

The guy in Norway was a Muslim.

The guy in the UK was a Muslim, too. They can buy weapons just like everybody else.

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

Do you honestly think arming everybody would make things better?
Not sure about the bows and arrows comment - that was Norway, not the UK. This guy used a knife.

Killers gotta kill.

That's sort of my point.

Well, there appear to be a lot more killers in some countries than in others. Maybe it's the education system.

[Jolly]

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

@jolly said in Another British MP murdered:

The guy in Norway was a Muslim.

You're a racist.

If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it ain't a moose.

[Doctor Phibes]

In my lifetime, there have been 6 British MP's murdered, 2 of them in the last 5 years.

4 were killed by Irish Republican terrorists, 1 by a Scottish white-supremacist, and 1 it appears by an Islamic terrorist.

Maybe they should just deport everybody.

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

In my lifetime, there have been 6 British MP's murdered

Wow. I had no idea.

4 were killed by Irish Republican terrorists

Was this by one-on-one killings, or bombing, etc?

1 by a Scottish white-supremacist

Insert Mel Gibson quote here...

and 1 it appears by an Islamic terrorist.

You're a racist.

Maybe they should just deport everybody

And a xenophobe.

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in Another British MP murdered:

Was this by one-on-one killings, or bombing, etc?

1979: Airey Neave, The Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; killed in a car bombing outside the Palace of Westminster.

1981: Rev. Robert Bradford Shot at a constituents' surgery in Finaghy, Belfast.

1984: Sir Anthony Berry, Killed in the bombing of the Grand Brighton Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference.

1990: Ian Gow, Killed by a car bomb near his home in East Sussex.

2016: Jo Cox, Shot and stabbed before a constituents' surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

2021: Sir David Amess, stabbed multiple times outside a constituency surgery meeting in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

[jon-nyc]

@doctor-phibes said in Another British MP murdered:

Scottish white-supremacist

How funny that the Scottish think they're white.