Brits vs. Guns

National Rifle Association ^ | July 25, 2017 | Charles C.W. Cooke

[Mafe]

Will a society that has long turned its back on armed self-defense ever be able to find its way back?

For a while after Sept. 11, 2001, a hideous question would flit uninvited across the back of my mind. “If they can do that,” I would wonder, “what can’t they do?”

If I allowed it to, another inquiry would swiftly join the first: “If the Twin Towers were rendered as easy a target as they were, then what institution can truly be deemed to be safe?”

Or, put another way: If they could hit that, what couldn’t they hit?

America, to its immense credit, is a remarkably open society. As Alexis de Tocqueville observed all those years ago, this is a place in which civil society flourishes without the leaden hand of authority to guide or to constrain it. It is a place, too, in which individuals are secure in their rights. In the United States, we travel, we assemble, we debate, we protest—and we do so while reserving the title deeds to our elemental liberties. The risks notwithstanding, we expect to retain our privacy, to own our consciences and to maintain our right to bear arms. More than any other people in the history of this world, Americans have proven resistant toward those who would coddle them. Here, “But you have to,” has rarely been a persuasive argument.

[Mafe]

I for one am damn glad that here in the US of A, the culture is the opposite.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

British culture disgusts me. Going all the way back to the 12th-13th century. Just my personal feelings.

[uncbob]

We defeated them in 1775 and again in 1812

But we let them drag us into WWI and had to save them in WWII

American GIs said the German people were more like Americans NOT the British

[fruser1]

As long as there are more good guys than bad guys, we’re better off if everyone is armed.

[Pontiac]

In the United States, we travel, we assemble, we debate, we protest—and we do so while reserving the title deeds to our elemental liberties. The risks notwithstanding, we expect to retain our privacy, to own our consciences and to maintain our right to bear arms.

I have a few problems with what he says here.

We have made progress in recovering our right to bear arms however our rights to free speech and conscience have suffered greatly in the last decade or two.

Our Freedom of Religion has suffered the most. Consider the baker that lost his business when he refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

Consider the pizza store owner that lost his business when he answered a question to reporter about catering a gay wedding.

We are very far from enjoying the freedom that Americans enjoyed when Alexis de Tocqueville traveled this country.

If we don’t start fighting back soon it will be too late for anything other than armed rebellion. A second civil war will be the only solution.

[indthkr]

neutered british society bump for later...