"Joe" wrote in message
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Wilbur, Duncan lacks the ability to think out of the box. Exactly why
the Brit's gave up the right to bear arms.

We never had the _right_ to bear arms like in the US constitution.
After the security tightening all licensed holders of shotgun or other gun
permits had to show real need to be allowed to keep them. Reputable gunshop
businesses were forced to close and a couple of owners of them committed
suicide as their livelihood was taken away without compensatioon.
Many shotgun owners like myself voluntarily gave up our shotguns to the
police for destruction because for the sake of the occasional vermin shoot
we could not be arsed to cope with all the bureaucracy. But the criminals
did not give up their guns and gun crime in UK has increased ever since.
All this stems from a dreadful gun massacre in a school by a person against
whom the police had been warned but had failed to act. They had the power
but did not use it.
Then the politicians got into the act because after such a tragedy
politicians feel that they have to be seen to be doing something so they act
to penalise the law abiding population and the criminals carry on and
progress.
Politicians are the same everywhere. Not my favourite kind of people.