XPost: uk.politics.guns, aus.politics.guns
From: user@domain.invalid
On 5/06/2013 11:22 PM, Truebrit wrote:
>> ,>>> 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
>>>>
>>> Truebrit wrote:
>>> Given the content of your posts I would say you are well situated.
>>> Truebrit.
>>
>> "keithr" wrote:
>> Not real bright at picking up context are you?
>
> Not real bright in knowing where the place commonly referred to as, Lalaland
> is are you?
> Truebrit
>
>
Judging by the quality of your arguments, it could quite possibly
be the UK.
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