Re: American crime vs English crime: not what you
It wasn't really horrible, just something that needed to be delt with quickly before it got out of hand. I was really pissed about being rebuked for defending myself - I steamed over it all day.
Don't get me wrong, I like Brits, I've worked with them a lot, gone pub crawling with them many times and their normally as friendly and mild mannered a people as you'd care to meet (although they have this strange sense of humor at times), but they have this thing about disarming everything in sight over there that's stupid, I swear they'd pull the teeth from every dog if they could. They have a long history of this and with every step it gets worse.
I've spent a lot of time in England, and to this day I don't simply don't understand why they insist on surrendering most of their freedoms voluntarily. Although, Brits do have a habit of sticking with a method, no matter how wrong or self defeating it has been shown to be, out of shear stubbornness or something. It's just a blind spot they have, I guess <shrug>.
Too often these days I see similar happenings with US court judges as well. Something we all need to watch carefully because these liberal judges will take away every freedom they can if given enough leeway. These judges place themselves above the law they swore to defend and administer. Recently, here in NY a judge had a wanted criminal escorted out the side door of her court room to avoid arrest - and not her first infraction either - in complete defiance of every legal precept, just because she didn't want an arrest to occur in her courtroom, a courtroom which is public property. They will take every opportunity to re-write the constitution as they see fit, given the opportunity.
I've often been of the opinion that this would be a Very Polite nation, if gun competence were required and everyone carried a .45 in plain sight.
"A defenseless people are a conquered people" (Attila the Hun on the Eurasian steppes)
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