Obama calls for Gun Control Laws

[-:Undertaker:-]

Americans started to panic yes. I don't think you can say it was purely the government vs. the people in this case because a lot of American people were also pushed by the war mentality that shielded day-to-day life and influenced their thinking.

Yes, and thats the entire point in having a constitution which protects certain rights such as gun rights and freedom of speech against the government or 'tyranny of the majority' of the day - it's why the Founding Fathers put guns into the constitution as they were well aware of how both the government and the people can often sometimes side against another people as seen with the Japanese Americans in WWII.

So linking this back to the general topic, you still believe that Britons should be allowed guns in case the government of the day turn on them?

Yes, absolutely.

I will try to "be sensible", as you so elegantly put it. What I was trying to get at was that laws and policies are passed with acknowledgement of the current world climate (obviously) and so they are tailored to that time. The problem with wanting a law back that was changed some 90 years ago is that the time gap is too great and it would need to adapt to the modern day. Things were a tad different then.

I never said bring back the exact piece of legislation, obviously it would be amended or redrafted to include modern day provisions. But the general gun law that was around prior to 1920 I would bring back, yes.

[FiftyCal]

The military is already drilling for when SHTF, what else would they be drilling for? An Invasion from a foreign country? Nope, the resistance.
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