On Sun, 16 May 2004 02:27:43 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

Brits aren't paranoid about states rights the way Americans are.
They don't feel that they have to be armed to keep a federal
government off their backs.

Subjects seldom do.

Ah the independent frontiersman! Nobody's gonna tell him what to do!
Not even his own elected government!

One should note the origins of gun control in the UK. Seems the Lords
of the Rlhem didn't want the pesky Reds coming across the Channel and
ultimately tossing them out on their asses.

Seems you need to read a few history books Gunner.

So between the royalty and the Bolsheviks, they got a really nice
Socialist Kingdom going for themselves nowadays. Seems almost a
contradiction in terms don't it?

## Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence;
## Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Gladstone