Second Amendment Set to Go Global With First Stop England by Jan Ireland

Second Amendment Set to Go Global With First Stop England

By Jan Ireland

March 25, 2004

When the British government took away all guns from law abiding citizens in 1997, they said it was for a safer England. The preceding first step of gun registration, that they assured the public had nothing to do with a plan to confiscate all guns, had been couched as "for safety" also.

Now guns in England are squarely in the hands of criminals. English citizens are subject to skyrocketing criminal assaults, and have no means to defend themselves in their homes or on the street. Guns have been criminalized, so only the criminals have guns. Seems the criminals didn't bother to obey the law, a fact that is always and ever a complete surprise to gun control proponents.

It's time the Second Amendment crossed the Pond, and that history making event is at hand. Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is opening a branch in England. And they likely won't stop there.

CCRKBA is headed by Alan Gottlieb, a no-nonsense dynamo, who says "Just as with America's war against international terrorism, we are taking the fight against international gun control to our enemies. With the attack on gun rights becoming global, it is important to fight these battles on every continent before we find ourselves isolated from an important human civil right."

Greg Smith, a young Political Science graduate and British Conservative Party activist, will head the English office. The office is to be funded by British citizens, as well as by gun owners in other European countries. Its mission is simple. Get back the right to self defense for the citizens of England.

Ordinary citizens live the dangers gun control imposes. They note the double standard that allows "elites" to carry guns, or have their children protected by armed bodyguards. They are forced to stand by as their property is taken. Women and young girls have no means to repel assaults.

With the rise in terrorism, the rise again of anti-Semitism, the UN's call for One World Disarmed (though that didn't keep Kofi Annan's bodyguards from having illegal weapons on the floor of our Senate), and all guns including water pistols and little boys' fingers a target for the extremist left - the people of the world have had enough.

Ordinary citizens are up in arms, shall we say. They are "armed" with the stellar, irrefutable research of John Lott and others, which meticulously details the increase in safety in communities where guns flourish. But most of all they are armed with common sense, which tells them that when criminals know no one has guns - they strike.

England, our staunch and strong ally, so like us in so many ways, has a completely different history with guns. Monarchs and titled rulers had a need to keep the masses in line. Force, fear, punishment and tradition kept guns out of the hands of "commoners," and reserved them for the "aristocracy."

But in America, all Men were created Equal. It's extraordinarily revealing to note the vital importance that our Founding Fathers attached to the right of self defense, ensconcing it in its own Second Amendment. Yet, citizens in England, in present day, have been arrested and sent to prison - simply for protecting their lives or property.

Check history. Communists, Marxists, despots of every stripe - all sought to disarm the people first. But the citizens of the world have had their fill of that.

The Second Amendment is going global. First stop, England.