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Regular readers over at my online journal, The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance, are familiar with this title, one I use on a recurring basis to illustrate the folly and outrage of citizen disarmament and government heavy-handedness in the United Kingdom. Many of them are also familiar with the blogger Cryptic Subterranean, who's police inquiries I reported in my December, 2007 column for Guns Magazine, "Not Obliged":
John McClelland, a fiction writer who blogs about liberty issues from Northern Ireland...also tried to get this information. Being a British citizen (and one who understands principles of American Constitutionalism better than the vast majority of US citizens), he is in a better position to approach his public servants than some foreign interloper from "across the pond."
What was he approaching them about? He wanted to know why "A TERRIFIED 80-year-old had to wait 24 HOURS for cops after a hammer fiend smashed her windows and threatened to kill her..."
He also wanted to know why, based on news reports from that time period, the Thames Valley Police apparently had no more pressing engagements. But their answer to his inquiries says much about the official sentiment of accountability toward citizens:
"Your request for information has now been considered," the Orwellian-titled "Freedom of Information Officer" informed him, "and I am not obliged to supply the information you have requested."
Mr. McClelland now alerts me to another account of citizen helplessness and police neglect, this time with a tragic and obscene ending:
A British counter-part to the American story the other day about an armed student preventing the rape and murder of students. In our UK tale, though, the outcome was not happy at all.
It's illustrative, is it not, the different results between someone having the means of defense and someone mandated to powerlessness and dependency on government employees who are "not obliged" to care? You know, the "Only Ones"...?
Here's what happened:
Mother told police she feared stalker would kill her. They didn't come. That night she was murdered
A mother of three was knifed to death by a stalker just hours after she rang police begging for help...
Gun owners in the U.S. should heed our British friend's advice and warning about what awaits us, should The Brady Campaign et al succeed in establishing UK-style citizen disarmament edicts here:
For my American readers- the time to fight for your Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, a right which might one day save the life of yourself or your family, is now. Before you lose it.
I suggest we listen to the voice of experience.
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Comments
David, Thanks for the link to Cryptic Subterranean. I'm enjoying reading his blogs.
They can't disarm us if we refuse to cooperate.
We will not lose our Second Amend rights.
Frankly, I getting sick and tired of seeing fat slugs like the country club elitist like the NRA sticking it to folks by playing all their back room games that seemingly look to be self serving. Lets just get in those Marxist commies faces and tell them to go ahead and pass King's bill along with H.R. 45 and H.R. 1022 and lets see what happens.
Disarming Americans would be an exercise in futility. I, for one, won't disarm. I can't say that I know any other gun owners who will either. That leaves them only one option. To come and take them. Even the current regime can't be that stupid, (one hopes).
I cannot stop them from taking my guns, but I can make damn sure I am not alive by the time they accomplish it, and further that fewer of them are also. If somehow I were to survive such an egregious affront to my citizenship due to sneakiness or some other ploy that accomplishes their goal while I am not prepared, I know where to rearm. Sun Tzu told me. There would be no justification, at that point, for not engaging in more "robust protest", as such action on their part would be a declaration of war.
If you think the police are neglectful over there, try getting in to see a surgeon. Another example of what happens when the government takes over everything.
When they tell me to register and license and submit fingerprints and such, for my guns, I'll tell them I am not obliged to do so. The madness will probably begin then, but then again, it's been going on for quite some time now. Perhaps they would do well to remember how excitable Benjamin Martin got with his tomohawk, once motivated to pick it up. I too, am an excellent marksman.
If we must exercise the right of self defense as described in the Declaration and in federalist No. 28, remember many police and Military will fight on your side--not all, but most
Army
(and we got the good stuff to help if we must)--You people would be surprised the back room discussions going on between soldiers--enlisted AND officer, and the police, too, if my friendships with LEOs are any indication--there is great concern about the dangers our Republic faces and what must be done to restore the Republic if the electorate fails us.
Sam Adams III
MOLON LABE
It will be one cold day in Hell before I give up my Rights. As a military retiree, I am obligated to obey and carry out my Oath to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic". With my life, I have sworn this to the American people, and the Constituion WILL be enforced.
If these boobs think for a moment I will roll over and go peacefully, let 'em continue to think such. I've lived 2/3 of my life, statistically speaking, and done it as a Free man, although I've witnessed the erosion of, and further disregard for our Freedoms. Enough!
Go ahead, Thieves of Liberty, pass your "laws". We, the People, have a few laws of our own to enforce. After all, you idiots were stupid enough to train we veterans, and then let us out. Big mistake on your part.
Usual tired old rant cherry-picking anecdotal stories from the UK completely ignoring the vast difference in the actual rate of violent crime UK vs US. Guns are offensive, not defensive weapons and the very best way to protect oneself from gun crime is to make sure the bad guys can't get them. The figures prove it.
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