Meanwhile, across the pond in Sarah Brady paradise...

May 10, 11:20 AMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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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.