We Should Have Let the Germans Have the Goddamned Country in 1917

Seriously. When Wilson was informed in 1917 that the British Empire would have to capitulate to the Kaiser in six weeks if the US didn't enter the war, he should have said "It sucks to be you."

This is why:

A grandmother has been jailed for five years for possessing a "family heirloom" World War II pistol.

Gail Cochrane, 53, had kept the gun for 29 years following the death of her father, who had been in the Royal Navy.

Police found the weapon, a Browning self-loading pistol, during a search of her home in Dundee while looking for her son.

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Judge Lady Smith said: "I am not satisfied that a reasonable explanation has been put forward for not handing this gun into the authorities throughout the 29-year period she says she has had it in her possession."

The judge said she was unable to find herself satisfied that this was one of the rare cases in which exceptional circumstances existed.

She said: "The result is I have no alternative but to sentence Mrs Cochrane to a period of five years."

I have little doubt that Mayor Bloomberg wanted to send a case of champagne to that judge.

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