[Nextrush]

Peter Hitchens explains in this video what the UK was like before private ownership of guns was outlawed in 1920.

People had guns to deal with threats and the police didn't have guns and needed the people to help them.

Now the UK has the militarized police, murderous criminals and terrorists and the unarmed civilian population as lambs to the slaughter.

[Grampa Dave]

Then, with Churchill:

Now after 7 decades of Brit PC bs and disarming the good Brits, this is the new rule!

This sums up why our second amendment is probably our most important amendment!

[yarddog]

I think the Bolshevik revolution scared the dickens out of the British upper crust.

They passed the gun control laws to keep the peasants under control.

[Finnwolf]

This is a short but very good video.

I think that the main reason for British firearm regulations in 1920 was due to the threat of Communism and Socialism that was running rampant through the continent.

Even in the USA there was a major uprising in the coalfields. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

The Battle of Blair Mountain is a very interesting study involving citizens on both sides arming themselves and going forth to fight.

[DoughtyOne]

Run, hide, shiver, be a pussy, whimper...

This is your first response for you.

The killing could have been limited to very few people, if some of those people had been armed and trained.

Britain's leaders are idiots.

The police cannot respond fast enough. Get over it.

[sheehan]

thank God for our 2nd Amendment.

[MtnClimber]

The UK government should face work every day with the certain knowledge that they have a good chance of getting a pitch fork in the back.

[SkyDancer]

What happens when the citizenry is disarmed. Just one person with a gun could have stopped the carnage; not even the cops had guns, they were locked up at the cop shop and had to have special authorization to get them or call out the special cops who are allowed to have guns. Disgusting.

[Chainmail]

Many people aren't aware that because Britain was disarmed, they were desperately short of small arms for home defense when the Germans threatened to invade in 1940.

The NRA collected donated American rifles that were sent to Britain to arm the Home Guard.

Not sure if we ever got them back.

[River Hawk]

The English Bill of Rights, 1689, recognized the Right to Bear Arms.
I guess in 1920 they just ignored that.

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[Wonder Warthog]

"Now the UK has the militarized police, murderous criminals and terrorists and the unarmed civilian population as lambs to the slaughter."

And apparently using halal butchery, as well.

What Hitchens and his ilk fail to ever consider is that active criminals are ALWAYS armed in some manner, because CRIMINALS IGNORE THE LAW. The criminals will smuggle them off army bases, out of police armories, or simply add them to the cargos of drugs that are smuggled in.

[crazycat]

Switzerland hasn’t had much trouble, as everyone in the Army has a loaded rifle at home !!!!!