The UK just finished disarming its citizens

Submitted by Claire (United States), May 4, 2008 at 03:00

mariana, you are certainly a realist. The UK just finished disarming its citizens to make them "safer." From what, I must ask? How are people without arms to help the military and the police, who obviously cannot handle such a mess?

And the U.S. is preoccupied and out of forces, many permanently disabled at this point and even our local forces already in Iraq. And we are about to possibly elect Obama, who has stated repeatedly that he wants to restrict firearms ownership even more and spits in the face of the Constitution. And even the U.S. government--the BATFE, for example, is hell-bent on closing all gun shops as a backdoor to disarm U.S. citizens. It's insanity that our Constitution is crumbling around us and we are barely making a peep about it.

We need to be ready in the event we need to patrol our own streets, or help Europe or others who need assistance. The French helped the U.S. once. Would they do it again? How would China react? Would they try to keep their trade partner afloat, let it fall, or step in opportunistically and seek to convert it into a clone of China? The Chinese have their own Islam problem they've kept fenced separately, but someday they'll have to deal with it.

WIll we take a giant cultural step back into pre-modern Islam or will we manage to retain our freedom and liberty?

My own hope is that ordinary Muslims will say enough is enough and turn on the extremists in large enough numbers to put a stop to it, but that's not likely.

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