We live, of course, in a country that long ago made ILLEGAL the right to carry a handgun for self-defence and that even before the handgun ban enacted in Britain in 1996. And that ban extended even to serving servicemen and servicewomen in mainland Great Britain.
The reports are that it took the police TWENTY MINUTES before an armed response unit arrived. That, in fact, these two young men WAITED for the
arrival of that armed unit and then, with their cleaver and knives rushed the unit at which point they were then both shot.
Do you really think that inthe USA in "right to carry" states that this would have had his outcome?
Quite possible armed American citizens would have themselves shot the twoattackers log before they were able to deal mortal blows to the soldier. They
had knocked him down first by driving a motor vehicle onto thepavement.
We live, in Britain, in a country where we are like sheep.
Expecting the shepherd to protect us from the wolf and yet never daring to askif it is not WE OURSELVES who should be allowed the means to protect ourselves...instead of waiting for the police to arrive.
In 1920 and in 1948 we gave up, as a nation, the right to carry firearms for self-defence. A right enshrined in the Bill of Rights of 1688.
For in 1920 and in 1948 a "contract" being implied that instead the police would now protect us so we no longer needed that right. Yet as all too often shown the police can now no longer honour that contract. And so we reap the harvest.
Maybe in a past time more steadfast policticians would have then demanded that if the police could no longer honour that contract that the general public be then allowed to take back the right they had given up the right to take personal responsibility for protecting themselves. The right to have arms for their defence as allowed by law.
But today?
We reap the crop that those before us allowed to be sown.