Originally posted by twitchy
No Gun Control is a VERY BAD IDEA. For the simple reason that our government is based on a system of checks and blances that keeps one organization or another from gaining too much power, the right to bear arms is the only check and balance we americans have to protect our soverignty. It may sound radical or revolutionary, but it is the only true insurance we have. Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Mousolini, all implemented gun control to seize weapons from the citizenry once they seized control of the governments. The right to bear arms is not only to defend yourself, it is the only balance We The People have to dissolve the governing body if we should ever need to.
I know of many occasions when people have enjoyed a false sense of security, provided by a dubious insurance policy. When they come to make a claim, ruh-roh - there's a long list of exclusion clauses. Better check your coverage, if I were you. I don't think it's going to cut the mustard.
Lazs - you've been to Britain, but it seems you learned nothing from it. You need to try to understand that in at least four generations, we have not been an armed society.
There was never a time when Brits roamed the streets packing heat.
There was never a time when I or any of my friends or relatives EVER slept with a loaded .45 by the bed, with one in the spout. You're fond of making it sound that we were all armed, just as in America, and then on one dark day had all our guns taken away...
it was never like that. There was no mass confiscation because there would have been bugger all to confiscate. OK, we had highwaymen in centuries gone by, and stage coaches that ran from London to the west country sometimes got robbed around Hounslow Heath, so gentlemen passengers were advised to carry their "sidearms". But that was yonks ago.
In order to portray your vision of Britain, you seem to use a composite picture, drawn from several different centuries. And that Britain exists only in your mind.
