Thanks for the nice comment. I have spent time in the UK and have seen that mentality there.

I have a good friend who grew up in Scotland and who is an avid shooter. In fact, he has shot for both the Scottish and Australian national teams. He is only to happy to tell you what he thinks of the UK’s draconian gun laws and his sentiments are probably not pleasant.

I believe I heard that at one time, the UK’s national rifle team had to travel to France to practice … but I may be mistaken. If true, that is so sad!

Darren

I have an older sister who lives much of the time in England and sometime in the States, who is vehemently anti gun, while I myself have several, from handguns to shotguns and rifles. We tend to have some interesting exchanges. I say interesting though the truth be told, rather more like contentious. She accuses me of being totally self in my right to possess such dreadful murderous pieces of death and destruction, while I protest my innocence and point to the fact, that I am a law abiding citizen, who even when provoked to extremes (especially by a cold calculating bitter ex-wife), would never dream of threatening another being in anything other than self defense. Still, I am the monster for maintaining my right to self defense (and for the enjoyment of the sport of shooting). Amusingly the conversation always ends the same way, with her berating me for being cold and cruel, after all, think of all the innocent children, whereupon, I always reply that she may wait upon the day when the raving mad jihadis come charging down her street, then we can see how effective her technique of the “disdainful, condescending sneer” is at sending them scurrying off in retreat. Invariably this ends the conversation and we don’t speak again for months. As the old saying goes…”There’s now’t stranger than folk”

England is the classic case against gun control, for ever since those draconian laws were introduced, crime with a weapon has increased dramatically, while crime in general, and violent assaults have skyrocketed; and yet, large numbers of the British people are vehemently anti gun. The concept of individual responsibility seems so alien to them, that they would rather give power to the state to enforce rules of none existent protection upon everyone, and then scratch their collective heads in stupefaction as to why nothing deters the criminal or why so many criminals have no care as to the brutality and callous cruelty they inflict upon their innocent victims. There is a lesson here much of humanity willfully refuses to understand.I guess the answers are simply to fearful for them to accept, that being, in many cases, you DO need to stand up for yourself; then of course, far, far too many want someone else to take care of them, it is after all, so much easier!