At the UK Daily Mail coverage I saw comments from UK residents ""Now we understand why you have a Second Amendment" "Tyrants like a disarmed population" One Brit said that legally they are subjects thus have no Second Amendment gun rights
Flashback:
January 17, 2001 - 11:23 a.m. ET
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/17/se.09.html
SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: And, Senator, he used those words that I quoted yesterday. Senator Ashcroft used those words, besides calling James Brady, who was shot in the assassination attempt of President Reagan, a loyal Republican, distinguished citizen whose life has been battling those wounds, and you call him the leading enemy of responsible gun owners.
And then you went on, and I said that Senator Ashcroft is so far out of the mainstream, he has said citizens need to be armed in order to protect themselves against the tyrannical government in our government. Our government tyrannical? If the senator from Arizona doesn’t know the difference between the British insurrection at the American Revolution and this government that has been formed under James Madison and the Constitution — there is a significant one.
Now listen to this. Listen to what he said is — indeed — and this is quote. This is Senator Ashcroft. “Indeed, the Second Amendment, like the First, an important individual liberty that in turn promotes good government. A citizenry armed with the right both to possess firearms and to speak freely is less likely to fall victim to a tyrannical central government than a citizenry that is disarmed from criticizing government or defending themselves.”
Listen just to what Gary Wills, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about that. Gary Wills, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has written, “Listen, only a madman, one would think, can suppose that militias have a constitutional right to levy war against the United States, which is treason by constitutional definition under this.”
I think this nominee owes an apology to the people of the United States for that insinuation, talking about our government now being the source of a tyrannical oppression. That’s what I think, Senator. I don’t retreat. I don’t retreat on any one of those matters.