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UK: Deputy Chief Constable: Do not Arm Yourself, Run and Hide
Gun Watch ^ | 14 June, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 06/23/2017 5:49:52 AM PDT by marktwain

English gun store


In the U.K., the mere idea that licensed gun owners could be considered a resource to defend against terrorist attack, is off the table.

A caller to a BBC radio show, a gun store owner and gun owner, asked Alison Hernandez, the Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner, a question.  What would be the repercussions of legal gun owners using guns to defend themselves in a terrorist attack? The Commissioner suggested that the idea should be examined. From theguardian.com:
“If there should ever be a terrorist attack, what happens if I and other people try to defend themselves using those guns? What would be the repercussions?”

Hernandez replied that it was a “a very good question” and asked the woman if she would put it in writing so that the chief constable, Shaun Sawyer, could consider it. But she then added: “This might be some of our solution to our issues.” 
The Deputy Chief Constable Paul Netherton immediately put an end to any thought such an idea should be considered. From devon-cornwall.police.uk:
The following statement is in response to an interview given today, Monday 12 June, to BBC Radio Cornwall by Police and Crime Commissioner, Alison Hernandez, where it was discussed whether or not registered firearms licence holders could be of assistance to police during a terrorist attack.
(snip)
“Under no circumstances would we want members of the public to arm themselves with firearms, not least because officers responding would not know who the offenders were, and quite obviously they would not have the time to ask.
“Our message to the public is a simple one: to run, to hide and to tell.
The Deputy Chief Constable never allows any possibility of self-defense. If self-defense with guns is seen as legitimate, the entire scheme of victim disarmament in the UK falls apart.

Consider. A gun store owner in the U.K. is not allowed to defend themselves with a gun, at least not in any planned way.  According to U.K. law, a gun may not be kept in a ready condition in order to protect against attack.  It might seem that a Jihadi attack in the U.K. countryside would be implausible.  How about an attack on a undefended gun store?

The rigorous citizen disarmament scheme in the U.K. was never about crime. It was always about fear of a revolution.

The dogma of a disarmed citizenry has become holy writ to the British governing elite.  It must never be questioned.  Anti-rights activists in the U.S. should be asked if gun shop owners should be able to defend their shop with a gun.

"Under no Circumstances" is the answer if the U.S. follows the path of British gun control.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; terrorism; uk
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Democrats in the U.S. give the same advise.
1 posted on 06/23/2017 5:49:52 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

That sounds pathetic.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 5:52:25 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: marktwain

The UN, Juncker, Soros, Clintons, obamas, schumer, pelosi, and RINOs.

They have NO IDEA how POWERFUL we are!!!

The 10s of millions who voted for our hero Trump!!!!

Brothers in arms who will defeat these pieces of garbage.

They say and do all this because they forget ONE THING.

You #### with American Patriots, you’re gonna wish you hadn’t for a LONG time


3 posted on 06/23/2017 5:52:28 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: marktwain

That advice certainly gives aid and comfort to the terrorists. England is so screwed up I can’t even feel sorry for them when they have a terrorist attack.


4 posted on 06/23/2017 5:53:59 AM PDT by Russ
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To: marktwain

“...Hearts of oak have our ships, hearts of oak have our men, we shall always be ready...”


5 posted on 06/23/2017 5:55:51 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: dp0622

This kind of thinking is way England is no longer a world power.....I think the word is chickenshit..


6 posted on 06/23/2017 5:56:04 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: Morpheus2009

That thinking is so foreign to me I cant even go there. Run Hide Tell? How about pull my legally carried 9mm, and tell the terrorists to FO. I like my idea better.


7 posted on 06/23/2017 5:56:50 AM PDT by CarolAnn
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To: marktwain

Hard to believe that this is the same country that defied the Germans during the blitz. The home guard was armed with loaned rifles from Americans and then after the war instead of returning them to their original owners they dumped them in the ocean.


8 posted on 06/23/2017 5:56:57 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: dp0622

Mattis said it well. (speaking for Marine Corp)

” don’t cross us ; if you do, the survivors will be writing about what we did here for ten thousand years.”


And They say: Don’t Mess with Texas


9 posted on 06/23/2017 5:57:45 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: marktwain

This is the country that conquered the world. Pathetic.


10 posted on 06/23/2017 6:00:33 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: marktwain

OK, Brits, we are bringing in millions of m*uslims who are going to breed faster than you, and replace you. We’ve got it all planned. When they come for you, run, hide, but they’re going to find you, bare your backside, bow down your head, and accept your new masters.
We need the votes and money, so sod you, Whitey!


11 posted on 06/23/2017 6:05:51 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Le Pen: "Islamism is a totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on civilization.")
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To: marktwain

the natural right to life. liberty, and property implies that self defense is a perfect right


12 posted on 06/23/2017 6:09:39 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: marktwain

Churchill and Thatcher MUST be rolling in their graves!! My God, what the hell is WRONG over there?? Oh wait. It’s the same f**king thing that’s wrong over HERE. Just a more advanced case of the leftist created POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, DIVERSITY, TOLERANCE, FLUSH YOUR CULTURE AND TRADITIONS DOWN THE CRAPPER!
That said, it APPEARS that some sort of PUSHBACK has begun with the Krauts. Just hope it doesn’t go all 1930s — BUT IT COULD but on the muzzies this time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY5uQRQZFnA


13 posted on 06/23/2017 6:10:34 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (America dodged a bullet. But remember that millions of morons are STILL OUT THERE!)
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To: marktwain

yes and then the terrorist seeks you out to kill you...

but how much better for all it would be if the terrorist found a bullet...


14 posted on 06/23/2017 6:13:50 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Texas Fossil

I say a special prayer each morning that Texas will somehow absorb Staten Island as part of it!

You guys would love us and your Italian restaurants would be even Better!!! :)

Me. I hate any temp above 70!


15 posted on 06/23/2017 6:14:35 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: P-Marlowe

Even more hillarious is the fact that they are making the prediction of Qadaffi from Libya come true, even after he is dead. You can’t fathom this level of useful idiocy and stupidity.


16 posted on 06/23/2017 6:15:42 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: marktwain

Why do they even have gun stores in the UK when citizens aren’t allowed to buy/own them? They can have them as long as they store/keep them elsewhere and not in their homes?


17 posted on 06/23/2017 6:16:09 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: marktwain
Yeah, the farmer doesn't need his sheep arming themselves against the wolves - what if they decide to fight back against him too?

Western Europe is decaying before our eyes.
18 posted on 06/23/2017 6:16:13 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

steady boys steady
We’ll fight and we’ll conquer again and again

but when we sang that as children, Britain was not far from WWII...

we believed then what we were singing...

the blood of British grandchildren runs pink...


19 posted on 06/23/2017 6:17:31 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: marktwain
Compare this to what our county Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd said yesterday in an interview...

“Everyone who is not afraid of a gun should get one and become proficient with it. Get a concealed carry license and take your gun with you everywhere you go. And if you have to shoot someone, shoot them a lot!”

20 posted on 06/23/2017 6:18:56 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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