The following was originally posted by me on CNN Website, Guns Under Fire discussion, 5 December, 1999
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alan schultz - Sunday, 12/05/99, 12:15:10pm (#34494 of 34494)
In the course of the ongoing debate dealing with Gun Control, while supporters often refer to "the British approach" as worthy of emulation by this country, they never get around to telling us exactly why we, in the U.S. should follow the British example, they merely hold it up as something that we, here
should follow.
Assuming that the listener has read All The Way Down The Slippery Slope: On Gun Prohibition In England And Some Lessons For Civil Liberities In America, see post 32907, Guns Under Fire for a direct link, he really should have, he or she will have more than ample resources at hand, with which to
DEBUNK the idea of emulating the British example.
It turns out that gun owners in Great Britain face a situation that is little better than the proverbial POLICE STATE, though it is a fairly polite one, where they exist virtually on the sufferance of a hostile government and it's bureaucracy, while the civil rights of non-gun owners are not really that much better off.
This is not to say that we, in this country, do not face home grown problems, still we are relatively speaking, ever so much better off, at least at present. How much longer this admirable situation will last is, I submit, a direct function of the stiffness of resistance put up by the citizens of The United States. British subjects, failed to demonstrate the required resistance, and they now exist, re civil rights, including "gun rights" as they do, in a much diminished state.
Read the essay above referred to, and use the data, for the rights saved might well be your own, and you get only one helping thereof. One assumes that readers would like to pass down, to future generations, at least the same level of rights that they started with.
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alan schultz - Sunday, 12/05/99, 12:15:10pm (#34494 of 34494)
In the course of the ongoing debate dealing with Gun Control, while supporters often refer to "the British approach" as worthy of emulation by this country, they never get around to telling us exactly why we, in the U.S. should follow the British example, they merely hold it up as something that we, here
should follow.
Assuming that the listener has read All The Way Down The Slippery Slope: On Gun Prohibition In England And Some Lessons For Civil Liberities In America, see post 32907, Guns Under Fire for a direct link, he really should have, he or she will have more than ample resources at hand, with which to
DEBUNK the idea of emulating the British example.
It turns out that gun owners in Great Britain face a situation that is little better than the proverbial POLICE STATE, though it is a fairly polite one, where they exist virtually on the sufferance of a hostile government and it's bureaucracy, while the civil rights of non-gun owners are not really that much better off.
This is not to say that we, in this country, do not face home grown problems, still we are relatively speaking, ever so much better off, at least at present. How much longer this admirable situation will last is, I submit, a direct function of the stiffness of resistance put up by the citizens of The United States. British subjects, failed to demonstrate the required resistance, and they now exist, re civil rights, including "gun rights" as they do, in a much diminished state.
Read the essay above referred to, and use the data, for the rights saved might well be your own, and you get only one helping thereof. One assumes that readers would like to pass down, to future generations, at least the same level of rights that they started with.