David Turner
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Now, I'm very new to the gun lobby, so I don't know all the arguments that you chaps use.
I've never owned a firearm, and I'm just fiftyyears old, now.
About a million years ago, I was allowed to carry one as a squaddie; but once I left the army, I was rendered instantly unworthy of that trust.
The last couple of years has seen me taking a hard look at the way my Country is run and the influence that we ordinary Citizens wield. And, I have to tell you, I don't like what I see.
Whilst I've been educating myself in the "ways of the world", I've taken a fancy to your Constitution and Billof Rights. And, of those Rights, the First and Second amendments seem particularly attractive.
It's a long slog from ignorance to Democracy and the first step for us is education. The English people (at least, the ones that I know) are just unaware of our own Bill of Rights. I was.
I tested this, just today. My friend is now 66 years old. He is privately-educated and an ex-Officer of the Royal Navy. He should know, shouldn't he?
You probably won't be surprised to hear that he was a bit baffled when I asked him about an English Bill of Rights. After a little thought, he managed, "Do you mean the Magna Carta?" That Bill of Rights already provides us with the RKBA. But political policies forbid us from exercising that right.
I didn't go to a posh school, just a State-run Grammar school. Democracy just wasn't on the agenda. It was a case of "teacher walks in, grunts, begins writing on blackboard...pupils copy slavishly...teacher grunts, walks out."
Anyway, to cut short a long andtedious story, the last couple of years has sparked an interest in change within the English.Given the right stimulus,we might even begin to challenge the Establishment and vote for a political party which isn't one of the two prominent ones.
The question for you, my friends, is how do we get the message across to the "man-in-the-street"?
I have an idea of my own, which I'll publish in a later letter. Right now, I have to put the spuds on to boil.
Now, I'm very new to the gun lobby, so I don't know all the arguments that you chaps use.
I've never owned a firearm, and I'm just fiftyyears old, now.
About a million years ago, I was allowed to carry one as a squaddie; but once I left the army, I was rendered instantly unworthy of that trust.
The last couple of years has seen me taking a hard look at the way my Country is run and the influence that we ordinary Citizens wield. And, I have to tell you, I don't like what I see.
Whilst I've been educating myself in the "ways of the world", I've taken a fancy to your Constitution and Billof Rights. And, of those Rights, the First and Second amendments seem particularly attractive.
It's a long slog from ignorance to Democracy and the first step for us is education. The English people (at least, the ones that I know) are just unaware of our own Bill of Rights. I was.
I tested this, just today. My friend is now 66 years old. He is privately-educated and an ex-Officer of the Royal Navy. He should know, shouldn't he?
You probably won't be surprised to hear that he was a bit baffled when I asked him about an English Bill of Rights. After a little thought, he managed, "Do you mean the Magna Carta?" That Bill of Rights already provides us with the RKBA. But political policies forbid us from exercising that right.
I didn't go to a posh school, just a State-run Grammar school. Democracy just wasn't on the agenda. It was a case of "teacher walks in, grunts, begins writing on blackboard...pupils copy slavishly...teacher grunts, walks out."
Anyway, to cut short a long andtedious story, the last couple of years has sparked an interest in change within the English.Given the right stimulus,we might even begin to challenge the Establishment and vote for a political party which isn't one of the two prominent ones.
The question for you, my friends, is how do we get the message across to the "man-in-the-street"?
I have an idea of my own, which I'll publish in a later letter. Right now, I have to put the spuds on to boil.