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Banning Guns Isn't Enough for the Brits By Nicki Fellenzer
I was wrong. The UK’s home secretary David Blunkett has announced a slew of measures that are meant to address the rising knife violence in not-so-Great Britain. Yeah – right on the heels of their wildly “successful” gun ban (pay no attention to the fact that there’s a gun crime happening every hour in the UK), Mr. Blunkett has announced that shops will be banned from selling knives to people under 18 years of age, and that he would like to see a stiff, five-year jail sentence on any poor bloke caught in possession of a knife. God forbid a 16 year old decides he wants to cook sliced turkey for dinner! He’ll be out of luck in Blunkett’s Britain. Sorry, chum. You’re going to have to rip the meat into chunks with your hands. Why is this happening? Well you see, guns are, for the most part, banned. And even though gun crime in Britain has risen dramatically since the 1997 ban on self defense, so have other types of violent crimes, including knifings. As a matter of fact, a spate of recent stabbings has prompted the families of the victims to demand justice in the form of stiffer penalties for mere possession of these horrid sharp objects. Because believe it or not, knives are so prevalent in Merrie Olde England, that every two weeks, “someone loses their life as a result of being stabbed.” Apparently it’s not enough that victims are prohibited from defending themselves, get punished for mere ownership of a firearm or a similar method of defense, such as a stun gun. Now, they won’t even be able to purchase a kitchen implement of their choice without some emotionalist hack screeching that they’re a danger to society and must be imprisoned for wanting to hack apart a side of beef for dinner. What is going on over there? Well, crime is out of control, and the government – instead of using logic and common sense to deal with criminals – is bowing to the reactionary histrionics of emotionally overwrought victims’ families and attempting to ban the offending object rather than address the source of the problem – the criminals. But if you’re thinking that their extremist reaction to crime comes from genuine goodness and authentic attempts to lower crime in Britain, you might want to think again. In a recent report, England’s top lawyer - Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith – was quoted as saying that criminals’ rights need to be protected as well as victims. (emphasis added) Apparently, the esteemed legislator believes that everyone has the right to live their lives free of violence – even those who make violence their life’s choice! Who cares if victims of criminals spend time in jail for daring to protect their homes and their families! Apparently in Goldsmith’s eyes, the lives of those who choose to violently victimize others… …to stab,
shoot, rape and assault them… …are worth just as much as the victims. Therefore, it’s apparently advisable, in Goldsmith’s eyes, for a woman to simply spread her legs and wait for her rapist to finish rather than fight back, because – God forbid! – her attacker’s right to rape and sodomize her in a safe environment could be compromised! No, it’s not fallible, human overreaction that is causing the Brits to attempt to control and outright ban every implement that may be used to cause harm. I’m convinced that their society has become so impossibly savage, that they can no longer tell the difference between right and wrong, justice and injustice, victim and criminal. Their warped sense of socialism tells them that we’re all the same – that our lives are all equal – regardless of the choices we make or the lives we lead. That’s why in their twisted world, it’s important to protect the rights of violent thugs and disarm the righteous victims. That’s why they think so little of life, liberty and property – because those concepts can only truly exist in a just society – a justice that the UK has lost. They are beyond help. We can no longer ask the question, “How can we help them? How can we make them see?” The question we should be asking ourselves is, “How can we ensure that we do not become like them?” My answer is this: only by safeguarding the sacred concepts of life, liberty and property can we ensure that our sense of justice never becomes skewed by the savages in three-piece suits and jack boots who claim authority over us. Only by never giving up an iota – by fighting until our knuckles are bloodied – by never allowing ourselves or our leaders to forget those sacred principles, can we hope to preserve them. Only by fighting against the incremental destruction of our basic rights, can we hope to avoid becoming another Britain. Because once a society forgets justice… As soon as government leaders mar the line between right and wrong… The path will be clear for them to enslave the sheep who have allowed them to do so.
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It
appears the Brits have climbed the Cliffs of Insanity and taken a collective
nosedive into the River of Outright Absurdity. My friend, author 
Nicki
is a US Army veteran, who spent nearly four years in Frankfurt, Germany
on active duty at the American Forces Network. She is a former radio DJ
and news anchor and a Featured Writer and Newslinks Director for Keepandbeararms.com.
She is also a former contributing editor to the National Rifle Association's
newest monthly magazine, Women's Outlook and she is currently the contributing
editor to Concealed Carry Magazine and writes occasionally for the Libertarian
Party. She resides in Virginia with her family. We are also proud to have
Nicki as regular contributor to Armed Females of America and to speak
for Armed Females on our position against gun control and freedom issues.