Doakes Sunday: Previews
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
If you want to see where American Liberals will be in a few years, look at British Liberals.
Guns already are banned but violence continues so now mandatory six months jail for second conviction for carrying a knife. All the usual arguments about whether it’s harsh enough, prison overcrowding, effect on gang violence, etc.
No concept that giving ordinary citizens the power to fight back in self-defense might be a long-term better strategy for social order.
Joe Doakes
Not only that, but self-defense itself is becoming illegal.
But let’s be fair; the US was headed the same direction 30-40 years ago. The good guys – that’d be you and me – fought back and pushed the needle back toward freedom.
We need to do it again, and in many, many more areas.
June 22nd, 2014 at 9:55 pm
And the British authorities take their enforcement to the same absurd bitter-ends of tortured logic as our schools who expel kids for inadvertently bringing a box cutter to school. See this story about a guy who kept a Swiss Army knife in his glove box. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266170/Disabled-caravanner-prosecuted-keeping-penknife-car-use-picnics.html
This kind of law could ruin the housewares business if transporting “dangerous” knives from Macy’s to your home could be a criminal matter. Good luck trying to get your hunting knife to deer camp!