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:-) Ignoring the point that common law allows for self defense - back then the UK even let Catholics and other subversives own weapons.
by spacecowboy_lon 11y ago
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Ignoring the point that common law allows for self defense - back then the UK even let Catholics and other subversives own weapons.
- jbssm 11y agoSince when the right for self defence calls for the use of fire guns? Basically every society preserved the right to self defence from the time humans first started to gather until now in more advanced cultures where gun possession is strictly controlled.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoUk Legal precedent for one, its only post the general strike in 26 when Churchill panicked and brought in restrictions. Ready any Sherlock Holmes story and you can see that Watson often caries a gun for protection.
- etaty 11y agoNuclear warhead is self defence also. Proof: countries use it.
- pjc50 11y agoFor "then" = 1792, but weapons (and tartan!) were banned in highland Scotland between 1747 and 1782: "it should not be lawful for any person or persons ... to have in his or their custody... broad sword or target, poignard, whinger, or durk, side pistol, gun, or other warlike weapon" http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandshistory/jacobitesenlightenmentclearances/actofproscription/ http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandshistory/jacobit...