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We must not, CANNOT let this happen in America

Faster horses

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Subject: Fw: Shotgun
























































You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.

Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.


At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.







With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.



You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.






In the darkness, you make out two shadows.


One holds something that looks like a crowbar.



When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.



The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.




One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door

And lurches outside.






As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.




In your country, most guns were outlawed years

Before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless...




Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.




They arrest you for First Degree Murder

And Illegal Possession of a Firearm.



When you talk to your attorney, he tells

You not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.




"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.

"Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing.




"Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."



The next day, the shooting is the lead


Story in the local newspaper.





Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.




Their friends and relatives can't find


An unkind word to say about them...







Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.



But the next day's headline says it all:



"Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."




The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters...




As the days wear on, the story takes wings.


The national media picks it up,

Then the international media.




The surviving burglar
has become a folk hero.



Your attorney says the thief is preparing

To sue you and he'll probably win.




The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack






Of effort in apprehending the suspects.







After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.





The District Attorney uses this to allege

That you were lying in wait for the burglars.


A few months later, you go to trial.

The charges haven't been reduced,

As your lawyer had so confidently predicted.




When you take the stand, your anger at

The injustice of it all works against you...



Prosecutors paint a picture of you

As a mean, vengeful man.




It doesn’t take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.




The judge sentences you to life in prison.




This case really happened.




On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Enmesh, Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second.






In April, 2000, he was convicted

And is now serving a life term...





How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire?




It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.






This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license...
The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.




Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.




Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.

Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.

When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions.
(The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dubliner, Scotland, and Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable or worse, criminals.
Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
The Dubliner Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.


Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying, “We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."

All of Martin’s neighbors had been robbed numerous times,
and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection
trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dubliner Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns
were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.

Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.

Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?


WAKE UP AMERICA; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

"...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds...”
--Samuel Adams

If you think this is important,






Please forward to everyone you know.







You had better wake up, because Our Government is doing this very same thing, over here, if they can get it done.







And there are stupid people in congress and on the street
that will go right along with it.
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
As a form of "personal protection", I'd rather have a shotgun, than an AR15.


As a form of protection against a tyrannical government, I'd rather have the weapons obama is sending to the Syrians.
 

Whitewing

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Anthony Edward "Tony" Martin (born 1944)is a farmer from Norfolk, England, who shot a burglar dead in his home in August 1999. There was much sympathy for Martin, and enthusiastic support for the right to defend one's own home. But some people cast doubt on his evidence, and pointed out that he did not have a valid firearms certificate.

Martin was convicted of murder, later reduced to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility, and served three years in prison, having been denied parole. He has since lived at a secret address, and there are unconfirmed reports of a substantial price on his head from the dead man's family and friends, who are members of the gypsy-like Traveller community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)
 

Whitewing

Well-known member
Fred Barras, the dead youth, had accumulated a lengthy criminal record, having been arrested 29 times by the time of his death at the age of 16, and had been sentenced to two months in a young offenders' institution for assaulting a policeman, theft and being drunk and disorderly. On the night he was killed, the teenager had just been released on bail after being accused of stealing garden furniture.

:shock:
 

tumbleweed_texn

Well-known member
Shoot
Shovel
And
Shut Up

Really simple solution that has worked well on wolves. Now our government is forcing us to implement this strategy on other varmints as well.

Tex
 

Steve

Well-known member
I would reach down and pick up my cross bow.. and hopefully if one decides to cower behind the other. At ten yards it would go right through the first one.. and hit the second.. but at ten feet.. It might just go right through both leaving a nice blood trail for the police to follow... :twisted: and I wouldn't even lose a decent bolt..

sure glad we put in hardwood floors as they clean up easier.. a carpet would be ruined..
 
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