- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down
to manslaughter.
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- "What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.
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- "Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as
if that's nothing. "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The judge sentences you to life in prison.
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- This case really happened.
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- 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.
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- How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in
the once-great British Empire?
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- 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.
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- Momentum 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 streets shooting
everyone he saw. When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
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- 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.) [MM: Problem-Reaction-Solution...played to perfection by MI-5!!!]
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- Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton
used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public
school.
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- 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 sidearms still owned by private citizens.
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- 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 criminally charged while the real criminals
were released.
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- Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman
was quoted as saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their
own hands."
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- All of 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.
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- When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns
were given three months to turn them over to local authorities. Being good
[brainwashed, ignorant and dumbed-down] British subjects, most people obeyed
the law [sic]. 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.
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- How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns
had been registered and licensed. Kinda like cars.
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- Sound familiar?
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- WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT
THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
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- "...It does not require a majority to prevail, but
rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's
minds.." --Samuel Adams
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- If you think this is important, please forward to everyone
you know. You better wake up cause your new president is going to do this
very same thing over here if he can get it done. And there are stupid
people in congress and on the street that will go right along with him.
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