Posted on 06/07/2022 3:34:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
On Monday's Morning Joe, the BBC's Katty Kay was vexed and perplexed, kvetching that the US hasn't banned guns, unlike the UK, which has done so.
"This is making it very hard for allies of America, friends of America, people who love this country as I do, who've lived here for very long, to defend the country at the moment, when every single morning, we wake up and there is another mass shooting.
"And we keep getting asked, what is going on in that country? Why can't they fix this? In the UK, you know this, Joe, they fixed it. It was a conservative government that fixed America's -- the United Kingdom's gun problem in 1980 after a mass shooting. They banned assault weapons. In the 1990s, they banned handguns after one school shooting. It's all it took, in Dunblane, Scotland, and the United Kingdom banned handguns."
The Second Amendment: ring a bell, Katty?
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Katty, since you find it “very hard to defend this country” because of our failure to ban guns, please know that from JFK alone, there are 22 daily non-stop flights to London. Feel free to pick one!
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Why Hasn’t US Banned Guns, Like UK?>>>>>>>>>>>
Come and take it. You will find out.
Because unlike Euros and Aussies and Canadians, Americans wouldn’t take a gun ban lying down, and the uniparty ruling class knows it.
umm Beeeeeecause we’re not you and we don’t want to be like you?
Because we’re a different country with its own history and culture?
Because our Founding Fathers were smart enough to recognize that government - not private actors - is by far the biggest threat to people and that a well armed citizenry would serve as a deterrent to tyrannical government?
Why don’t you restore gun rights in your country....and restore the death penalty....and get rid of socialized medicine. In short, why don’t you just change a bunch of your laws and customs so you can be more like us? Because I mean....clearly, our way is best.
(yes Yurps, that is exactly how you sound and yes, that is exactly how arrogant you come across when you say such things).
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Regardless, the gun debate is over. Period. If armed police will stand outside of a school while children inside are slaughtered, they will stand outside of anyone’s home while the same happens there. The reason that we haven’t had another hijacking after 9-11 isn’t because of sky marshals. It isn’t because of enhanced security or the FBI suddenly becoming competent.
Nope. It’s because the American people on those airplanes finally recognized something that nearly every reader here has always known: the defense of your family and your own life is your responsibility, always has been, and always will be. The defense of our nations and schools belongs to us, not some outside entity.
Well, that kind of governmental overreach is one reason why we aren’t part of that empire.
SO, THESE are the Bad Asses that stood by and let children be murdered? Just because you can play Dress Up with scary looking BLACK guns and body armor doesn’t make you brave.
Their badge says TO PROTECT AND SERVE. What a F*cking Joke.
Because our founders had problems with those pesky British soldiers who tried to confiscate the citizens guns.
Isn’t the UK close to or have they already banned types of knives?
Damn straight.
The dipsh*t obviously failed any history, social studies, civics, or government class sheidiot had ever taken or been in. We have a Constitution that guarantees the right(s) to bear arms and the UK does not.....
“Come and take it. You will find out.”
Yeah. We’re big talkers. But the fact is that we’ll do nothing to if they move to remove that liberty. We’ve let them get away with it for decades and we’ll continue to do so. We’re weak and compliant.
Ashamed to say that I include myself.
I remember being in Australia in August of 2019 when a murderer was downtown Sydney. He had a knife and just murdered a girl. He was going after people and no one had a gun to shoot him and take him out! A couple Brits grabbed a CHAIR (must have been an assault chair) to put some space between them and the knife to get the knife away from the guy. There is where you wind up without guns in the hands of the people.
Excellent!
A government and judiciary which simply ignore it, and a majority of people too fat, comfortable and complacent to defend it jealously means it's a dead letter.
You are entitled to your view despite the millions that continue to fight for the right to bear arms.
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