XPost: uk.politics.guns, aus.politics.guns   
   From: sly_bacon@hotmail.com   
      
   > 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?   
   >   
   >"keithr"  wrote:  Lalaland   
   >   
      
   Given the content of your posts I would say you are well situated.   
   Truebrit.   
      
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