teeroy
Life Member
Subject: Fw: Gun crazy ?
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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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."
> >
> > 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 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 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..
> >
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> > 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
> >
> > If you think this is important, please forward to
> > everyone you know. I just did!!!
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> > 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.
> >
> > This case 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 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
> >
> > If you think this is important, please forward to
> > everyone you know. I just did!!!