Unfortunately they did not “let” this happen, they demanded it! And now they are reaping the bitter fruit of those demands. It’s the small minority of people that haven’t agreed to this that I feel sorry for but what can they do when the rest of their countrymen have gone absolutely insane?’
I am fascinated by your comment. Could you expand it. I understood that the lack of a written constitution and ‘progressive’ jurisprudence’ stripped Britons of most of their right to self defense (which was never as strong by any means as the common law understanding of self defense in the US}. Further gun ownership was severely impacted by laws the Tory governments in the 20’s enacted after the General Strike because of fears of a workers uprising. The recent confiscation laws only stood on the shoulders of earlier bad laws.
I would really be interested in a longer explanation of your most interesting post.
It’s all about who you elect, the Brits have been electing parties that have advocated gun control and taking away the right to self defense for almost a century. But even so they did still have the right to own most guns until the school shooting in the 80’s or 90’s (don’t remember exactly when). The whole country was up in arms about that and demanded that the politicians do something to protect them. I’ve been over there several times and talked to people about that and other things, for the most part they are VERY supportive of keeping guns out of the hands of citizens, they’re actually proud of it. Except for a few, talked to one B&B operator and she was pretty contemptuous of all the British wimps but wasn’t much that she could do. The whole of Europe has gone bonkers with socialism, not sure how much longer they can live in the state of suspended reality that they live but for now it is what it is.