From the moment he gets out of bed in the morning, an Englishman’s life is overseen by officialdom.”
Sadly, the formerly free and formerly liberty-loving Englishmen have been some of the absolute worst in terms of crying out for more officialdom.
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And around the same time, the British government started to regulate guns. And they did so out of an explicit fear of revolution.
Read the whole thing — the last part is very important.