XPost: uk.politics.guns, aus.politics.guns   
   From: user@domain.invalid   
      
   On 28/05/2013 11:50 PM, a425couple wrote:   
   > "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?   
      
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