Edgar wrote:
We never had the _right_ to bear arms like in the US constitution.

Edgar,
If I remember my High School history going back a few centuries, English
Common Law gave you the "right" to keep and bear arms. Politicians
relatively recently took that right away from you.
A common misconception is that our Constitution grants us rights, but it
was written in a vain effort to help protect the rights we already had -
quite a lot of which was adopted from Common Law. And like your
politicians, all of our's will do whatever it takes to take away our
rights as evidenced by the very large number of attempts starting from
the time the Constitution was ratified and since. But since we tend to
be more stubborn than you it will take them only slightly longer.
Don't know if you have the same problem over there, but here we have a
gazillion judges, including members of the Supreme Court, that believe
the function of the court is to cicumvent the lawmakers (who are
criminal enough) by legislating from the bench to take our rights away.
Red