mrstickball said:
You are correct. However, if you want to play that game, I'd love to ask you how many countries with armed populace(s) have seen their government impose a horrific, tyrannical government on themselves, and purged the armed populace. If you like, I can start with Mao, Lenin, and Hitler's purges of an unarmed populace. Also, if Mr. Brown was able to suspend parliment and institute a dictatorship in England, what would you prefer to be? Armed, or unarmed? |
Fortunately, Mr. Brown doesn't have that kind of power, so it would never happen. That, and the fact that the Government/Parliament have no control over the police, so they wouldn't be able to enforce it.
And, don't hold me to this, but guns were a lot more easily accessible 30, 40-50 years ago, so the situations like Hitler were completely different - the UK's gun laws were very similar to that of the US's back during WWII, I see no reason why Germany would have been different. (Also, an interesting thing to note about the UK is that the gun laws only changed because the people forced the Government to, not because the Government forced the people).
