[StBernard] It could happen!!!!!

[Westley Annis]

		You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your
bedroom door.
		Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear,
		 
		You hear muffled whispers.
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		At least two people have broken into your 
		 
		 
		 
		House and are moving your way. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		With your heart pumping, you reach down 
		 
		 
		 
		Beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch 
		 
		 
		 
		Toward the door and open it. 
		 
		 
		 
		In the darkness, you make out two shadows. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		One holds something that looks like a crowbar. 
		 
		 
		 
		When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, 
		 
		 
		 
		You raise the shotgun and fire. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. 
		 
		 
		 
		One writhes and screams while the second 
		 
		 
		 
		Man crawls to the front door and lurches outside. 
		 
		 
		 
		As you pick up the telephone to call police, 
		 
		 
		 
		You know you're in trouble. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		In your country, most guns were outlawed years 
		 
		 
		 
		Before, and the few that are privately owned 
		 
		 
		 
		Are so stringently regulated as to make them useless.. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		Yours was never registered. 
		 
		 
		 
		Police arrive and inform you 
		 
		 
		 
		That the second burglar has died. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		They arrest you for First Degree Murder 
		 
		 
		 
		And Illegal Possession of a Firearm. 
		 
		 
		 
		When you talk to your attorney, he tells 
		 
		 
		 
		You not to worry: authorities will probably 
		 
		 
		 
		Plea the case down to manslaughter. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask. 
		 
		 
		 
		"Only ten-to-twelve years," 
		 
		 
		 
		He replies, as if that's nothing. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		"Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven." 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		The next day, the shooting is the lead 
		 
		 
		 
		Story in the local newspaper. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric 
		 
		 
		 
		Vigilante while the two men you shot 
		 
		 
		 
		Are represented as choirboys. 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		Their friends and relatives can't find 
		 
		An unkind word to say about them.. 
		 
		 
		Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge
that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times. 
		 
		 
		But the next day's headline says it all: 
		 
		"Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die." 
		 
		The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into
Robin Hood-type pranksters.. 
		 
		 
		As the days wear on, the story takes wings. 
		 
		The national media picks it up, 
		 
		Then the international media. 
		 
		 
		The surviving burglar
		Has become a folk hero. 
		 
		 
		 
		Your attorney says the thief is preparing 
		 
		To sue you, and he'll probably win. 
		 
		 
		The media publishes reports that your home has been
burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local
police for their lack 
		 
		Of effort in apprehending the suspects. 
		 
		 
		After the last break-in, you told your neighbor 
		 
		That you would be prepared next time. 
		 
		 
		The District Attorney uses this to allege 
		 
		That you were lying in wait for the burglars. 
		 
		 
		 
		A few months later, you go to trial. 
		 
		The charges haven't been reduced, 
		 
		As your lawyer had so confidently predicted. 
		 
		 
		When you take the stand, your anger at 
		 
		The injustice of it all works against you.. 
		 
		 
		Prosecutors paint a picture of you 
		 
		As a mean, vengeful man. 
		 
		 
		It doesn't take long for the jury to convict 
		 
		You of all charges. 
		 
		 
		The judge sentences you to life in prison. 
		 
		 
		This case really happened. 
		 
		 
		On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England,
killed one burglar and wounded a second. 
		 
		 
		In April, 2000, he was convicted 
		 
		and is now serving a life term... 
		 
		 
		 
		How did it become a crime to defend one's 
		 
		own life in the once great British Empire ? 
		 
		 
		 
		It started with the Pistols Act of 1903. 
		 
		This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to
minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to
those who had a license. 
		The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not
only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.. 
		 
		 
		 
		Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of
any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all
shotguns. 
		 
		
		Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest
after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. 
		 
		Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov
rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.
		
		When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
		
		The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of
"gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions. 
		(The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the
objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)
		
		Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland, 
		Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16
children and a teacher at a public school.
		
		For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as
mentally unstable, or worse, criminals. 
		Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up
law-abiding gun owners. 
		Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all
pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. 
		The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of
the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.
		
		During the years in which the British government
incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the
right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.. 
		Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were
threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to
own a gun.
		Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were
charged while the real criminals were released.
		
		
		Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was
quoted as saying, 
		"We cannot have people 
		take the law into their own hands."
		
		All of Martin's neighbors 
		had been robbed numerous times, 
		and several elderly people were severely injured 
		in beatings by young thugs 
		who had no fear of the consequences. 
		Martin himself, a collector of antiques, 
		had seen most of his collection 
		trashed or stolen by burglars.
		
		When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, 
		citizens who owned handguns 
		were given three months to turn them over 
		to local authorities.
		
		Being good British subjects, 
		most people obeyed the law. 
		The few who didn't were visited by police 
		and threatened with ten-year prison sentences 
		if they didn't comply.
		
		Police later bragged that they'd taken 
		nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
		
		How did the authorities know who had handguns?
		The guns had been registered and licensed.
		Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?
		
		
		WAKE UP AMERICA ;THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE
SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
		
		"...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an
irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
		--Samuel Adams
		 
		If you think this is important, 
		 
		please forward to everyone you know. 
		 
		 
		You had better wake up, because Obama and Hillary via the
United Nations are trying to do this very same thing, 
		over here, 
		if they can get it done. 
		 
		 
		And there are stupid people 
		in congress 
		and 
		On the street 
		that will go right along with them.