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Monday, January 07, 2013

Shotgun


You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.

Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.
At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.

You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it...

In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
One holds something that looks like a crowbar.

When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.

The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.

One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door

and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before,
and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..

Yours was never registered..
Police arrive and inform you

that the second burglar has died.

They arrest you for First Degree Murder

and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he tellsyou not to worry:
authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.
"Only ten-to-twelve years,"

he replies, as if that's nothing.

"Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead

story in the local newspaper.

Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.
Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them..

Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.

But the next day's headline says it all:

"Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."

The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters..

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.

The national media picks it up,

then the international media.
The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win.

The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and
that you've been critical of local police for their lack

of effort in apprehending the suspects.

After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.
The District Attorney uses this to allege

that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial.

The charges haven't been reduced,

as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger at

the injustice of it all works against you..

Prosecutors paint a picture of you

as a mean, vengeful man.

It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.

In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term..

How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire ?
It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.

This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and
established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.

The Firearms Act of 1920
 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns..

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and
mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Mom entum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.
Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the street shooting everyone he saw.
When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions.
(The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland ,

Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.


For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.

Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.

Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.

The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearm's

still owned by private citizens.


During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights,
the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.

Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened,
claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.

Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.


Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,

"We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."


All of Tony
 Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times,
and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs
who had no fear of the consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques,
had seen most of his collection
trashed or stolen by burglars.


When the Dunblane Inquiry ended,
citizens who owned handguns
were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.


Being good British subjects,
most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn't were visited by police
and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.


Police later bragged that they'd taken
nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.


How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA ;
THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

27 comments:

  1. "Police later bragged that they'd taken
    nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens."

    Can you brag from the grave? They will die when they come for my gun.


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  2. This is damned scary !

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  3. With heavy Iron bars bolted to your bedroom windows and steel doors you have no need of guns. Killing a hungry person in need is not the answer. The police have guns and will protect you. They are trained for this, not you.

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  4. 11:05 :
    Can you really wait for the police? they're not there in a split second, which is what you need.

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  5. @11:05 -- So I must turn my home into a prison, never opening the doors or windows, so that thieves and murderers can be free.

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  6. Incredibly scary... to 11:05, police officers may have the guns but even under the best of circumstances it will take 5-15 minutes for an officer to respond to a 911 call especially in a rural area... That simply is not fast enough... Let us take charge of our own protection for ourselves and our families

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  7. 11:05~~ Why should I have to put heavy iron bars on my windows? If some one comes in my house, they get what they deserve. There are places for hungry people to go. Breaking into my house is illegal and they get what they ask for. Also, you are an idiot

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  8. These people racked with pain may not know it's not their home and enter by mistake. Our police will protect you! They are so macho, driving around in muscle cars are not afraid of these people of need.

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  9. People of plenty must give to people of less.
    You are your brothers keeper.

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  10. 11:05 i hope this happens to you and people like you who have their head up their 4pt contact.

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  11. I use a crossbow.It shoots 400 ft per second and can go completely through 2 people with heavy clothing (with one shot)I can put a bolt in and cock it faster than the average person can cock a gun.Unless I've misread the 2nd amendment crossbows and non firearms are not mentioned.

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  12. Great idea about the crossbow.

    12:09 People of plenty should (not must) give to people of less. I'm not the keeper of your brothers' drug habits and refusal to work.

    11:05 Hungry people in need go to a soup kitchen or a church or swipe a loaf of bread, not break into houses and threaten innocent people. The police cannot protect a dead homeowner or resident after one of your darling career criminals has made him/her a murder victim.

    Defend yourself from criminals and ostracize those who make excuses for them. Strike back at those who criticize you for refusing to be a victim.

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  13. Gerald, retired Detroit copJanuary 7, 2013 at 1:58 PM

    Wake up folks; you and you alone are responsible for the safety of your family and property. Buy a gun, learn to use it, and keep it handy. Google- “Supreme court decision on law enforcement is not required to provide citizens protection”, you won’t believe how they ruled. The cops don’t have to protect you at all, it is your job!

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  14. Mass paranoia. No one is going to take any guns from anyone.

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  15. can put a bolt in and cock it faster than the average person can cock a gun.


    BS!

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  16. So I guess that means after you shoot the criminals, you have to shoot the other criminals that show up in uniform?

    Or go to jail. Hmmm. Something doesn't sound right here.

    Be robbed, beaten and or killed by criminals or protect yourself and go to jail where the criminals should be?

    One solution is after you shoot and kill the criminals don't call anyone. Get rid of the bodies and zip your lips.

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  17. Megan Kelly made a good point today when she was talking about the woman that hide with her twins in the attic when someone broke into her house. She fired all 6 rounds at the intruder and he ran out of the house. What would have happened had there have been 2 or 3 intruders. There is the reason people need a gun that fires more than 6 bullets.

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  18. most people who will be involved with defending our rights will not comment , amen

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  19. why are so many of you clueless? your clueless about our constitution and bill of rights, our history, human nature and so much more. it seems you've been living in a cave or under a rock. this is very scary to me because many of you vote. are you sissys, do you just go on your emotions and no common sense? what really makes you tick? again; scary...

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  20. Spear guns designed for fishing make good self defense weapons. They come in pistol and rifle models and are not regulated.

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  21. most people who will be involved with defending our rights will not comment , amen

    January 7, 2013 3:48 PM

    bullcrap. they won't use their real names in fear of retaliation and targeting themselves, but we speak up just fine.

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  22. What would have happened had there have been 2 or 3 intruders. There is the reason people need a gun that fires more than 6 bullets.

    January 7, 2013 3:13 PM

    Good point.

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  23. To 3:01-they tell me a bag of lime and some rain will make them disappear real quick.

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  24. 3:01 and 6:48-You guys sound like the Sopranos.I'll be careful not to break into your house.

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  25. 3:01 and 6:48-You guys sound like the Sopranos.I'll be careful not to break into your house.

    January 7, 2013 9:37 PM

    I don't know about all that but you gotta do what you gotta do. And you should be careful not to break into anyone's house, not just ours.

    I really wouldn't want to do what I described. I have a bad back and couldn't carry anyone out in one piece. And the solution for that would be just nasty and messy.

    Please don't force anyone to do something like that.

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  26. Well, Not only do we have a hitory of the effects of gun control in China, N. Korea, etc, we have one in a supposedly "free" country, where, in your own home, the POLICE PREFER that you get raped or killed rather then survive a criminal attack. Those are the facts. Spin it however you like, but thats the deal. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

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  27. I have a lot of respect for the police. However... they do not prevent home invasions, attempted murder or murder itself. They enforce the law... mostly traffic laws, which do find a few criminals during the stop. The police investigate crimes... after the fact... usually after I have been murdered or fell victim to an assault. My only defence from actually being killed during a break-in or assault is self defense. Therefore my reason for having a firearm in my home. You want to wait for the police to come and rescue you from getting killed? Good luck!

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