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Not so cheerful news from the gun-free, socialized health care, enlightened paradise that is England:

Friend Mark got roughed up last night by a group of fifteen or so “youths”, who beat him to the ground, introduced his head to the side of a parked car, and then made off with his wallet, glasses, and iPhone.

He was walking home from the Tube station at night, and passed through the group of yobs not fifteen yards from his front door.  One of them swiped the pack of cigarettes from his back pocket as he was walking through them, and when he turned around and said, “Come on, let me have my smokes back,” the first blow landed on the back of his head.  He says it was over before he had a chance to even switch from “ah, kids” mode to “combat” mode. 

End result: head injuries, a swollen knee, a few hundred bucks of property taken by force, and several credit cards that had to be speedily canceled. 

Secondary effect: the UK will be deprived of yet another tax-paying, productive subject.  Friend Mark has an American passport by virtue of fortunate parental lineage, and he’s currently making arrangements to flee that overtaxed socialist hellhole ASAP, and set up shop in the US.  He’s a professional 3D animator, and as he can do his job from pretty much anywhere with an Internet connection, he’ll be up and running over here in no time.

Before the usual suspects chime in with “What good would a gun have done him?”, it’s not about guns, as least not directly.  It’s about the kind of culture and society that has been brought about by disarming the population and making any sort of self-defense implement illegal.  This is the UK, the home of 20% of the world’s CCTV cameras, where carrying even a Swiss Army knife “without good reason” is a dreadful offense, and it has gotten to the point where a six-foot-plus male in reasonable health can’t walk down his own street after dark without being shorn like a sheep by a gang of feral youth. 

When you make weapons of all kind illegal and strongly discourage self-defense, you create an environment where the young and the many automatically have the upper hand in any sort of conflict, and where the pack always dominates the individual.  These kids don’t have to worry about someone being able to put up any sort of credible self-defense, because the government has forcibly rendered everyone defenseless, and because the legal system further discourages fighting back by charging the victims who dare to fight back almost as harshly (and in many cases, more so) than the aggressor.

Gun control proponents talk about preventing “gun crime”, but they don’t care about the crime, only about the guns.  They talk about the innocent victims of shootings, but they are willing to write off people like my friend Mark as “collateral damage”, an acceptable trade-off for not having those icky guns and knives around.  Better to have productive and law-abiding citizen being beaten up and robbed, than to see the attackers driven off by someone with a gun.  That’s what they really mean when they use the mantra “If it only saves one life“.  It doesn’t work in reverse, you see.

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