Please tell me California Isn't this Bad!

[SanPedroShooter]

That video would be comical if it wasn't so pathetic.

If you think this is even remotely possible in California the you should be a member of the NRA and be contributing to the NRA-ILA and Calguns Foundation among other pro 2a organizations.

Those bobbies would probably soil themselves if they saw my p-rod.

Good advice.

Nice WMD.

[Mesa Tactical]

Another about a guy who put up barbed wire around his garden because thieves had been stealing the stuff he was growing, and the local council (local government, essentially) made him take it down because the thieves might get injured by it.

Odd, since broken glass set into the cement on the tops of walls (probably a Victorian innovation) is fairly common in the UK.

The UK essentially surrendered the right to personal self defense around 1950. A lot of crazy stuff was happening in the UK in those days.

I've lived in the UK, and it can be a very pleasant place to live. Of course, I was there during the tail end of the Troubles, when the IRA was setting off bombs in London and on one occasion I was using Heathrow airport while the IRA was firing mortars at one of the runways. The British maintained a stiff upper lip throughout, responding to the threat of terrorism with far more confidence and composure than Americans did following 9/11 (as did the French, who suffered bomb attacks on the Paris Metro in the late 1990s; Metro trains would simply bypass the bombed stations, but they didn't close the system).

I do not know what happened to the normally stoic British in the face of Islamic terrorism during the last decade. A people who stood so proudly against Irish terror seem simply to have crumpled and surrendered most of their rights and dignity to the police (a dangerously corrupt and incompetent police, as the death of Jean Charles de Menezes and the ongoing Leveson inquiry have revealed). It is really a strange sight to see for someone who lived with them through part of the Troubles.

[SanPedroShooter]

Feel better now?

One of the strangest stories I have read is the account of grown men lining up for blocks, some in tears, handing in their recently banned pistols and rifles (and any ammo or acessories, holsters etc..) in the nineties. Family heirlooms, war trophies all went into the North Sea...

Can you imagine Americans doing that? I cant... I think there would be a run on shovels, or civil war...

Even in California less the 10% registered their 'assault weapons'.

[Dutch3]

That video is unbelievable. Confiscation of pocket knives and fired brass? I hope we are not headed down that path.

[Demonicspire]

Boy that video makes my blood boil. And people in this thread are right, England has severe violent crime problems. I know several people who have been mugged visiting london. Apparently you are 5 times more likely to be mugged in london than in new york (not the greatest example given new york's gun fascism, but still)

[Ford8N]

Even in California less the 10% registered their 'assault weapons'.

This gives me hope that California gun owners will resist the Rulers of this state when they finally get around to banning all firearms, not just "scary looking" firearms.

[Kid Stanislaus]

It had to be done "For the children"!

[ap3572001]

California DOES have some restrictions when it comes to firearms but its NOT as bad as many like to think.

I travel a lot and seen much , much worse.

[Taztwnpa]

If you think this is even remotely possible in California the you should be a member of the NRA and be contributing to the NRA-ILA and Calguns Foundation among other pro 2a organizations.

+1

We have to watch out with the "at least things here are not as bad as" mentality. Because it happens a little at a time and before you know it We will have the same thing here.

[k1dude]

When you give up your freedom for security, you will have neither freedom nor security.

[sixtus]

This video makes me really glad we have the 4th amendment.

[ojisan]

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This billboard is so Orwellian it is very, very scary.

[Johnnyfres]

Wow , what a frigin joke. Glad I am an American.

[vincewarde]

The British gun laws cover "high powered" air rifles - they are regulated as firearms. Wonderful.....

My primary care is a P.A. originally from the UK. He told me that they were going to ban glass beer mugs in pubs because they were so frequently used as weapons in bar fights.

My feeling on this whole matter is that when you treat an entire nation like a prison - you should not be surprised when they act like criminals.

[chris]

Of course it's not.

There's a silver lining to consider-CA is light years better than the UK.

but dying to catch up.