Posted on 04/27/2018 6:11:21 AM PDT by davikkm
As much noise is made in the US about adding gun control laws, it is worth looking at the illiberal laws that have been used in the UK to disarm the population. It is a history of making laws that had no relation to the problems they were meant to deal with and have left the citizens of Britain in a dangerous legal position when attempting to defend themselves.
Back in the early 18th Century, William Blackstone defined the right for self-preservation clearly, saying that:
“ (People)having arms for their defence, suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law. Which is also declared by the same statute I W. & M. st.2. c.2. and is indeed a public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.”
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Is this guy ok?
But before you do that take away its cigarettes.
He somehow got his blog on the excerpt list.
Much of his material is crap though.
“Ruby Henly” who “contributes” is invariably nuts.
Barking mad nuts.
Outlaw the Pro-knife Lobby and ban yhemanufacture and importation of knives.
Confiscate all knives, then ban guns.
The primary purpose of government is to protect the citizens from invasion and lawlessness. Western countries substituted wealth and resource distribution as the central purpose of government
Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and other state European governments have welcomed third world immigrants into their nations and showered them with housing, social programs, and guaranteed incomes paid for by the native citizens. Instead of being grateful to their benefactors, the immigrants are responsible for a significant amount of property and violent crimes in those countries. Governments have squashed attempts by native individuals and groups to seek protection from crimes or reduction in immigration.
In the US, the federal and some state governments have facilitated an the infiltration of millions of illegal immigrants into the country and is also resisting political pressure from a majority of citizens to stop the flow of people, drugs, and criminal gangs across the border.
When government deliberately places its citizens in harms way, fails to protect them against foreign invasion and plunder, and stifles legitimate petitions to the governing authority government loses its legitimacy. When the actions of government are contrary to the desires and needs of the citizens, not to mention harmful to the lives of citizens, it must chose to align its goals with citizens or become tyrannical and oppress the citizens who oppose it.
In the west we are seeing entrenched the elites controlling western governments refuse to address the petitions of the people. Tyranny is the result and disarming the population is essential for a tyrannical government to maintain control. Once the population is disarmed it will only be a matter of time before the opponents of government are imprisoned or killed.
Once the population is disarmed it will only be a matter of time before the opponents of government are imprisoned or killed.
The United Kingdom’s gun control laws were quite casual for many years and accompanied by far lower crime rates. Handguns began to be regulated in the late nineteenth century with it’s “permit for a penny” that was mainly for revenue and not controlling who had pistols. The legal acquisition and possession of rifles was not controlled until licencing and registration were introduced in the 1920s and shotguns did not require police permits for legal purchases until about 1967.
Shotgun permits were introduced by then Home Secretary Harold Jenkins as a means of trying to divert attention from calls for the reinstatement of the death penalty (which was abolished in 1965) in the wake of increasing violence in Northern Ireland and elsewhere and with the highly publicized murder of two British police officers. Even after more strict laws were introduced in 1987 (Hungerford) and 1996 (Dunblane), U.K. violent crime has yet to drop down to levels that it was at before 1967.
Ones like Colin Greenwood, David Kopel and Joyce Lee Malcolm give very in depth portraits of the evolution and lack of success of modern gun control in this country.
The "problems" they were meant to deal with are not the problems claimed. The problems dealt with are the problem of influence on the government by the citizenry. Any such influence is intolerable and a first major step to rectifying that problem is to disarm the people to make it more difficult for them to have some recourse when their rights are abolished.
Under the present mayoral decree from the Khan of London, I wonder how many restaurant chefs have been stopped on the street, their packet of prized kitchen knives seized??
LOL - thanks!
Looking back we can see Britain’s gun control schemes outside of Britain.
Confiscation of arms in Boston by the British, beginning in 1768, continuing with the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775, and the seizing of firearms in Boston. Those guns were never returned.
One hundred years later they tried it again in South Africa, in which they called in all native firearms (Birmingham gas pipes) for “registration”. The guns were seized. The natives threw such a fit the firearms were returned, damaged beyond use.
And in India where all the natives were “disarmed” of firearms, so they thought. When a man-eating tiger began to raid villages, a professional hunter was called in, and the local Maharajah issued an edict that guns could be used to hunt the tiger, the villagers began to dig up hidden muzzle loaders to help in the hunt.
In Great Britain, around 1920, it was the fear of a soviet style revolution which began the first gun collections. So the government passed it off as “preventing gun crime.”
Thank you for posting this, along with the link.
Banning all knives will make eating meat impossible. Which vegetarians will applaud. No knives, no butchering meat. Thus no need to hunt since the meat cannot be butchered. Guns will just fall away into rust.
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Not gonna happen, KMA
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