Half-awake,
and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled
whispers.
At least
two people have broken into your house and are moving your
way.
With
your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up
your shotgun.
You
rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and
open it.
In
the darkness, you make out two shadows.
One
holds something that looks like a crowbar.
When
the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the
shotgun and fire.
The
blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
One
writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front
door and
lurches outside.
As
you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in
trouble.
In
your country, most guns were outlawed years before,
and the few that are privately owned are so stringently
regulated as to make them useless..
Yours
was never registered.
Police
arrive and inform you that the
second burglar has died.
They
arrest you for First Degree Murder and
Illegal Possession of a Firearm.
When
you talk to your attorney, he tells you not
to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to
manslaughter.
"What
kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.
"Only
ten-to-twelve years," he
replies, as if that's nothing.
"Behave
yourself, and you'll be out in seven."
The
next day, the shooting is the lead story in
the local newspaper.
Somehow,
you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you
shot are represented as choirboys.
Their
friends and relatives can't find an
unkind word to say about them..
Buried
deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both
"victims" have been arrested numerous times.
But
the next day's headline says it all:
"Lovable
Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."
The
thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin
Hood-type pranksters..
As
the days wear on, the story takes wings.
The
national media picks it up, then the
international media.
The
surviving burglar has
become a folk hero.
Your
attorney says the thief is preparing to sue
you, and he'll probably win.
The
media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized
several times in the past and that you've been critical of local
police for their lack of
effort in apprehending the suspects.
After
the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be
prepared next time.
The
District Attorney uses this to allege that you
were lying in wait for the burglars.
A
few months later, you go to trial.
The
charges haven't been reduced, as your
lawyer had so confidently predicted.
When
you take the stand, your anger at the
injustice of it all works against you..
Prosecutors
paint a picture of you as a
mean, vengeful man.
It
doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all
charges.
The
judge sentences you to life in prison.
This
case really happened.
On
August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England ,
killed one burglar and wounded a second.
In
April, 2000, he was convicted and is
now serving a life term..
How
did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great
British Empire ?
It
started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
This
seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or
felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only
to those who had a license.
The Firearms Act of 1920
expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms
except shotguns..
Later
laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon
by private citizens and mandated the registration of all
shotguns.
Momentum
for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the
Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.Michael Ryan, a mentally
disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets
shooting everyone he saw.
When the smoke cleared, 17
people were dead.
The British public, already
de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even
tougher restrictions.
(The seizure of all privately owned
handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a
rifle.)
Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland ,
Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16
children and a teacher at a public school.
For many
years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally
unstable, or worse, criminals.
Now the press had a real kook
with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
Day after day,
week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity
and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
The Dunblane
Inquiry, a few
months later, sealed the fate of the
few
sidearms
still owned by private citizens.
During the
years in which the British government incrementally took away
most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to
armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities
refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened,
claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason
to own a gun.Citizens
who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the
real criminals were released.
Indeed,
after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as
saying,
"We cannot have people take the law into their own
hands."
All of Martin's neighbors
had been robbed
numerous times,
and several elderly people were severely
injured in beatings by young thugs
who had no fear of the
consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques,
had seen most of his collection
trashed or stolen by
burglars.
When the Dunblane Inquiry ended,
citizens
who owned handguns
were given three months to turn them over
to local authorities.
Being good British subjects,
most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn't were
visited by police
and threatened with ten-year prison
sentences if they didn't comply.
Police later bragged
that they'd taken
nearly 200,000 handguns from private
citizens.
How did the authorities know who had
handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind
of like cars. Sound familiar?
WAKE UP AMERICA
; THIS IS
WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR
CONSTITUTION.
"...It does not require a majority to
prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set
brush fires in people's minds.."--Samuel
Adams
If
you think this is important, please
forward to everyone you know.
You
had better wake up, because Obama is doing
this very same thing, over here,
if he can get it
done.
And
there are stupid people
in congress and on the street
that will go right along with him.
