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I suppose we’ve got to give them props for English Common Law, but aside from this I’m getting really sick of the stuff I keep seeing come out of Great Britain. I’ve got nothing personally against the fine folks over there, except for the stream of diarhhea that their poor newspapers have to keep reporting.

Ya know guys, I’m really sorry your murder rates are up by hundreds and hundreds of precentage points. Maybe you shouldn’t have let your sorry excuses for law makers ban civilian ownership of guns. Yes, it sucks that you and your families now have to curl up and pray during home invasions – but it’s your own fault that you let your parliament-critters make it illegal to defend yourself during a violent attack in your own home.

Yeah, it is that bad over there. If you’re not living in the UK, be thankful that we in the rest of the world have a half-decent chance of not being sued by our assailants if we defend ourselves.

And now, the latest: They’d like their police officers to be armed. I’m not sure where you guys have been for the last couple hundred years, but as far as I can remember, criminals have damn near always been armed. And they’ve damn near never shown anything but “utter contempt” for human life. So why are you just now waking up to the fact that arming your “protectors” might be a helpful thing when it comes to their ability to fight criminals?

Give your cops guns, damnit. Give them good ones – like, maybe even consider it an investment in their safety. Then give your people back their guns. Because many of us who live in the real world know that cops can’t be everywhere all the time. We understand that they’ve got no real responsibility to protect us – they’re only required to take the report and draw the chalk-lines. And so we take responsibility for our own defense. We take it seriously – and hopefully, after your violent crime rate goes up a few hundred more percentage points, you might too.