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Report: Arming Good Guys Part of Solution to Terrorist Threat in Gun-Controlled Britain
breitbart.com ^ | 9/26/2017 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 09/27/2017 7:34:43 AM PDT by rktman

The UK’s fear of firearms, and potential weapons of all kinds, is well-documented. Subjects are urged not to carry any item, such as pepper spray, that might be adapted for self-defense. Officers take to social media to boast of “weapons sweeps” that turn up old kitchen knives, baseball bats, and sharpened sticks. In 2009, the Home Office even contemplated replacing traditional glass pint glasses out of fears about their use in barroom brawls.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bearingarms
No end in sight if they adopt carry rules for the Bobbies eh. Just think, yesterday we were talking about an entire arsenal discovered by the cops. Gotta be on the look out for pellet guns and airsoft rifles now. And to think, there was a time when the sun never set on a piece of the British Empire.
1 posted on 09/27/2017 7:34:43 AM PDT by rktman
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I’m not sure what’s wrong with the minds of Brits that instills an irrational hysterical fear of firearms in them, but nevertheless it’s there. They’re like New Yorkers.


2 posted on 09/27/2017 8:08:26 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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All those laws and enforcement and propaganda against the law-abiding for anything that might be useful in self-defense (what’s next, pop tarts?), yet a muzzie was still able to decapitate a soldier in broad daylight on a busy public street, and have time to stand there and make speeches until the police showed up.


3 posted on 09/27/2017 8:26:19 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: from occupied ga
🔫. And, "Housewives Against Guns": HAGs
4 posted on 09/27/2017 8:27:34 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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They’d better not arm the good guys. For them, the good guys are the bearded muzzy savages.


5 posted on 09/27/2017 8:27:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (*slam is a political movement that hides behind the illusion of religion.)
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