Another Brit turns sour on gun control

In a letter to the British Home Secretary, MP Kate Hoey writes: "As I am sure your officials will tell you, there was absolutely no evidence to suggest that by banning legally-licensed cartridge pistols and closing legally-operating shooting clubs, we would all sleep safer in our beds. Yet today there are more hand guns on our streets than 10 years ago."

The UK was a classic gun control confiscation scheme: first they introduced mandatory gun licensing, and then later they used that registry to round up all the guns. Of course the criminals didn't bother to register their weapons, so after the confiscation crime has soared. The UK now has some of the worst crime in Europe, because their citizens are defenseless. As I've pointed out in previous posts, their citizens are now doing the only sane thing: they're rearming themselves illegally.

Why? Because the right to bear arms is a universal right of man, as understood by our Founding Fathers, who were products of the Enlightenment. It would behoove us as a nation to spend more time reading the works of the Enlightenment in our colleges. But then I'm biased, because I think a classical education is best.