Gun owners beware

[Pappy19]

This can happen to you.......





[FONT='Arial', 'sans-serif']Closer to Reality than You Think

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 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.

[FONT='Arial', 'sans-serif']This case really happened. On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk ,
[FONT='Arial', 'sans-serif']England , killed one burglar and wounded a second. In
[FONT='Arial', 'sans-serif']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.

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 sidearm 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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[Texrob1]

What's sad about that story is even with all those Gun control laws,Great Britain's crime rate has Increased!As I understand it,you cannot even defend yourself by any means if attacked,if you do you will be arrested also.

[RatherBNtheWoods]

Originally Posted by Texrob1

What's sad about that story is even with all those Gun control laws,Great Britain's crime rate has Increased!As I understand it,you cannot even defend yourself by any means if attacked,if you do you will be arrested also.

Oh good grief!

[Texrob1]

Originally Posted by RatherBNtheWoods

Oh good grief!

Would you care to expand on that response any?

[twinbulls]

Very true and its coming to a town near you......

We all need to read stories like this and then look at whats going on in our own state.....

Stay informed

Stay strong

Stay united

[VCRacing]

Several months ago there was a article in American Rifleman about the reasoning behind the 2nd Amendment and why the Framers wanted it included. It was something that should have been and may have been taught in American history, but for my life , I don't remember it in school. The article makes the current political climate look like the times before the American Revolution. The government wanting to prevent the people from protecting themselves from unfriendly's and a unfriendly government rule.

[RatherBNtheWoods]

Originally Posted by Texrob1

Would you care to expand on that response any?

They "cannot even defend yourself by any means if attacked".
You can't really believe that do you? Can't defend themselves by any means?

[Texrob1]

Originally Posted by RatherBNtheWoods

They "cannot even defend yourself by any means if attacked".
You can't really believe that do you? Can't defend themselves by any means?

Maybe I overstated by saying "Any means" (but not by much)

"The BBC offers this advice for anyone
in Britain who is attacked on the street:
You are permitted to protect yourself with
a briefcase, a handbag, or keys. You should
shout “Call the Police” rather than “Help.”
Bystanders are not to help. They have been
taught to leave such matters to the professionals.
If you manage to knock your
attacker down, you must not hit him again

or you risk being charged with assault" That was taken from this article. http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_repo...cpr-26n2-1.pdf

[grassfarmer]

As Michael Savage said: the only reason to go to Britain was for dental work or wonderful food.

I purchased some ammo at Gander Mountain today and they said that they did not have any trouble getting ammo but had trouble keeping in on the shelves. They had a limit of one box per customer per day or one "brick" per customer. Plenty of folks worried about the future and not just about the right to bear arms. We are about to witness the greatest mess in this country since the Civil War.

[Texrob1]

I will say I am surprised by this,especially the number of Dems that supported it. House passes measure expanding gun rights - CNN.com

[LMJD]

The spokesman for the main group who were opposing that bill was quoted as saying we'd all be at risk because people would be carrying the dreaded "assault" rifles, shotguns, and sporting rifles in our state parks. What a dork! Why would anyone carry any of the above since there's no hunting allowed in the park system? On the other hand, there's no way I'd wander out of sight of my pickup in Yellowstone without pistol protection considering the number of guides and hunters that get mauled by grizzlies well outside of the park boundaries every year.

[00350]

I quess everybody has to ask themselves the question. What are you going to do when they come to your door to get your firearms? Personally, if I gave up my firearms, I would feel like a helpless slave to our government. I would rather perish as a free individual, than live as a slave in fear. I love my country, do not love our government. .02

[VCRacing]

Originally Posted by 00350

What are you going to do when they come to your door to get your firearms?

What firearms?

According to the 5th amendment, I can refuse to answer said question.

[vegistroker73L]

Originally Posted by Texrob1

I will say I am surprised by this,especially the number of Dems that supported it. House passes measure expanding gun rights - CNN.com

Then this might surprise you as well

http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/AWB...oHolder309.pdf

65 Dems wrote a letter to Attorney General Holder basically saying, "Ummm...yeah, about that assault weapons ban? Don't even think about it."

[00350]

Originally Posted by VCRacing

What firearms?

According to the 5th amendment, I can refuse to answer said question.

Absolutely.