@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:What you're suggesting is the opposite of what History teaches. The autocratic feudal regimes of a few centuries ago have become democracies. The world is becoming more, not less free. The main threat to freedom is the new aristocracy, the ultra rich who have a pernicious influence on government, and seem to enjoy an almost stateless, tax avoiding existence. You carp on about freedom but you take the side of our new overlords every time.
I don 't have the energy to discuss it at the moment.
I hope that I have been rong.
izzythepush wrote:Btw, gun control in the UK is not a product of big government, but the collective will of the people.
My sense of the situation is that u r correct, as of now.
When gun control began, in the First World War,
it WAS the product of big government.
I have the feeling that if there were a referendum now,
the side of personal freedom woud be
very badly defeated,
but I 'm pretty sure that if there had been a referendum when
gun control
BEGAN, it woud have
lost by an even greater percentage.
That was when England
WAS freedom-loving, and
THOSE Englishmen woud have bravely,
violently resisted the ignominy of being stripped naked in the streets in the full light of day.
THAY had dignity.
I think that it was to
their spirit that Churchill appealed in his speeches of WWII,
to the
EARLIER Englishmen, but the same electorate (in mind & spirit) who threw him out of office
when the war was over, also woud now vote
against their own rights to defend their lives or families
from predatory violence, preferring to rely upon the collective.
David
