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> By Robert A. Waters -
>
> 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, and 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 tells you 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 an
> 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
> also 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 sidearms 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 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. Kinda like cars.
>
> Sound familiar?
>
> WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
> PUT THE SECOND
> AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
>
> "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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>
> By Robert A. Waters -
>
> 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, and 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 tells you 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 an
> 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
> also 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 sidearms 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 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. Kinda like cars.
>
> Sound familiar?
>
> WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
> PUT THE SECOND
> AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
>
> "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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