XPost: uk.politics.guns, aus.politics.guns   
   From: a425couple@hotmail.com   
      
   "Mary Alison"  wrote in message...   
   > Unfree Kingdom bans all guns, and now no one can defend themselves against   
   > a beheading of a soldier in the street, in broad daylight! Bloody   
   > murder!---   
      
   > ... The right of self-defense is the first law of   
   > nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine   
   > this   
   > right within the narrowest limits possible. Whenever standing armies are   
   > kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any   
   > color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already   
   > annihilated, is on the brink of destruction. - St. George Tucker,   
   > Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1803) ( From which U.S.   
   > laws regarding the RKBA ( Human Right to Keep & Bear Arms )  derrived )   
      
   Yes, the US situation owes a lot to what great English   
   thinkers like Blackstone and John Locke wrote.   
      
   > That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence   
   > suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law; ..." - English Bill of   
   > Rights 1689   
      
   Not a real clear bright line, is it?   
      
   By the way, what country are you in?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)