In Britain the popular consciousness runs thus:From
Guns kill people – Killing people is bad – Guns should be banned – Obvious ‘innit?Whereas in America it runs:
Guns kill people – Some people need killing – Ooh that Glock looks nice – Obvious ‘aint it?
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
QOTD - Culture
The U.S. and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language quoth Churchill, G.B. Shaw, (Thanks Al!). There's more to it than that though as this comment popped up in a discussion regarding 3D printed guns on Samizdata:
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Not Churchill but Fabian Socialist George Bernard Shaw.
Al_in_Ottawa
Billl, in reference to your comment on Samizdata, you may want to research the English Bill of Rights of 1689 which was enacted after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. You'll find the right 'to have arms for their defence' 'to petition the king' to have a jury trial and provisions against 'cruel and unusual punishments' many of the same grievances addressed in the US Bill of Rights. In many ways the US Bill of Rights is a continuation and expansion of Magna Carta, the Writ of Habeus Corpus of 1642 and the English Bill of Rights.
There were two earlier laws in the 13th or 14th century by one of the Henrys that mandated every village to cultivate a grove of yew trees so there would be an ample supply of wood to craft English longbows from and that the yeomanry was to devote Sunday afternoon to the practice of archery. This was when the longbow was the supreme standoff weapon on the battlefield as demonstrated at Agincourt.
Al_in_Ottawa
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