Down the slippery slope to a Clockwork Orange and “Atlas Shrugged” world.:

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Banning Guns Isn’t Enough for the Brits

By Nicki Fellenzer

It appears the Brits have climbed the Cliffs of Insanity and taken a
collective nosedive into the River of Outright Absurdity. My friend, author
Michael Z. Williamson, and I used to laugh about Britain, their
unreasonable ban on armed self defense and their hysterical attempts to
further correct the problems caused by said ban by implementing yet more
stringent and bizarre restraints on people’s rights. Mike was born in the
UK. I used to kid him about the future of Great Britain. I used to tell him
that soon, sharp implements will be banned, and people will be forced to
purchase pre-cut food rather than risk the chance of some unstable chef
losing control and hacking some unsuspecting Brits to pieces with a knife.
These were jokes. I didn’t really think it would ever happen.

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.

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.

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