Posted on 01/15/2005 5:21:58 PM PST by quidnunc
It is Friday evening and Nicki Slawson's working week is at an end. Her job, as an executive with a charity in Kettering is rewarding though exhausting. It is the beginning of the weekend: the time when Mrs Slawson, 37, should be looking forward to some leisure time, perhaps at the cinema or in a restaurant.
At 8pm she double-locks her front door and checks that the twin CCTV cameras bolted to the wall of her home are working. Mrs Slawson is not, as one might assume, locking the door behind her to go out for the evening, she is locking herself in. For the next 12 hours her home, just a quarter-of-a-mile from the centre of the Northamptonshire town, will be her self-imposed prison.
"I bolt the front door and I don't go out again," she says, wearily. "I can't. It just isn't safe with all these violent drunks around. A few weeks ago, five of them tried to tear down my front gates. That's why I had the cameras installed.
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Mrs Slawson is one of the "law-abiding majority" to whom the Prime Minister referred when he told us glibly of the benefits of introducing 24-hour licensing. It would ensure that they would not be inconvenienced when they wanted to have a drink after going to the cinema or the theatre.
Instead, all across Britain, thousands of these law-abiding citizens, such as Mrs Slawson and her family, are left with little choice but to place their families under virtual house arrest on Friday and Saturday nights: they dare not go out because, from early evening, the streets become the haunt of drunken and violent young men and women.
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Life without a 2nd Amendment.
If you can't get it, I'm not going to waste bandwidth trying to explain.
I agree, this is a different issue entirely, this really isn't about the 2nd amendment. It's about drinking.
Allow gun ownership. Homeowners kill maybe a dozen violent and assaulting drunks the first week-end. The drunks go under the sod, permanently cured of their bad behavior. The word is spread. The sun comes up Monday on a freshly civilized society. People feel safe again.
Drinking is legal in many countries and legalized drinking doesn't require private homes in those countries to become prisons for the occupants.
Outlawing the booze didn't work during Prohibition. There's no solution there.
An armed society is a polite society.
I suspect those who don't understand the calming effect a firearm has on diffusing a violent confrontation have never been on the wrong end of a gun or else have relied on others to protect them.
Clockwork Orange is unwinding before our eyes.
No drinking hours? I wonder how the youth will restrain themselves. A full reading of the article suggests that they won't.
I'll drink to that. I'm having a nice martini right now.
Shaken - not stirred.
One huge problem that there is no general agreement in Biitain on where the line separating bad behavior from good behavior lies.
Post-modernism and political correctness aided and abetted by a thoroughly debauched news media and degenerate royals have turned Britain into a lazar house.
Drunks can't aim a gun as well as sober people. When you shoot the drunks they will go away.
There was a time in England when the police were not allowed to carry guns. If a cop encountered an armed criminal, he was supposed to ask an armed citizen to help him. That was when England was a lot more civilized. Times have changed.
I wonder if incidents like this inspired the film "Sean of the Dead" where England is overrun with zombies and it takes a while before anyone notices.
The absolute right of self-defense and THE MEANS to accomplish it are crucial to civilization.
England is well upon the way toward total lawlessness by taking away the rights of the law-abiding citizen to protect himself and his property. The evidence is everywhere apparent and even the police have declared their own inability to stop the crime wave.
Damn fool English. A blind man could have seen this coming.
I believe such nonsense to be societal suicide and any nation refusing the right of self defense to its citizens DESERVES to join the ash heap of history.
How supposedly free citizens have allowed their government to turn them into criminal victims without recourse is a total mystery.
This is convincing proof societies cannot remain free very long because enough dangerously foolish people can ultimately be swindled out of their own rights and assist their masters in forging new chains in which they again become enslaved.
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