I bet those Brits wish they had a Second Amendment right now...(as well as all the other amendments, for that matter;)
I hope we continue to have one too...
We're not that far off from the Brits..timeline wise anyway..
Ex...
"Despite these rates, which Malcolm is right to call astonishingly low, the British government decided at the turn of the 20th century to begin a program of gun control that would ensure "that nobody except a soldier, sailor, or policeman, should have a pistol at all." The claimed justification was the "enormous" number of handgun injuries."
Link...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59866,00.html
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