XPost: uk.politics.guns, aus.politics.guns   
   From: user@domain.invalid   
      
   On 6/06/2013 10:46 AM, 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?   
   >>>   
   >>> Truebrit wrote:   
   >>> Not real bright in knowing where the place commonly referred to as,   
   >>> Lalaland   
   >>> is are you?   
   >>> Truebrit   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> "keithr"  wrote:  Judging by the quality of your   
   >> arguments, it could quite possibly be the UK.   
   >>   
   >  Epic fail on your behalf.   
   > Truebrit.   
   >   
   >   
   If you're not in the UK then your 'nym is a lie.   
      
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