Four police officers who were flagged down by a store manager as his colleague detained a thief,” telegraph.co.uk reports. “[They] allegedly said they were ‘not kitted up to help’ and drove away.” So much for fighting crime in the Piers Morgan “gun-free” paradise commonly known as the United Kingdom. A country whose subjects are barred from possessing adequate means of defense and punished when they attempt to defend themselves (e.g., farmer Tony Martin’s ongoing ordeal). Where those paid to respond to crime seem to have more urgent priorities . . .

This latest in a seemingly unending list of examples of national suicide across the Pond recalls a question inspired by an old GUNS Magazine article from the December 1959 issue, “Guns in our bundles for Britain,” by William B. Edwards.

“We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight them in the fields and the streets, we shall fight them in the hills. We shall never surrendah!” Edwards reminds us, quoting Winston Churchill during Britain’s darkest days. But that’s not the whole story . . .

“As the broadcast was momentarily interrupted by applause, Winston Churchill turned sadly and angrily away from the mike and said: ‘But I do not know what we shall fight them with,’” Edwards related.

We learn about the American Committee for Defense of British Homes, headquartered in New York City, that set about the task of appealing to Americans to “Send a gun to defend a British home.” We learn of the thousands of firearms the effort succeeded in collecting and shipping. And we learn how the possession of small arms led Bert “Yank” Levy, a “specialist in guerrilla and irregular fighting,” to “express…the belief that Home Guard defense was why ‘Britain can no longer successfully be invaded.'”

“Wherever the enemy may land, he will immediately be confronted by a nucleus of men born and bred in the district, knowing every foot of topography, fighting from every city, town village and hamlet, from every ditch, copse, wood, hill, and valley,” Levy declared. “The importance of the Home Guard idea in world politics is vast. For instance, this approach to war is proof that where a government trusts its people, its people trust and protect their government. ”

Does that remind you of anything?

Sadly, outrageously, we learn that when the danger had passed, government trust in the people went away, guns were destroyed and the people for the most part, obeyed in the “cleansing of firearms.” Thus we find ourselves in today’s sorry state of affairs. Which leads me to a question for TTAG’s readership.

Knowing what we do now, noting the likely course the UK and its people seem determined to chart for themselves, if a similar plea for help went out today, would you send a gun to defend a British home – if you knew it couldn’t be traced back to you?

If I remember right the guns sent to Britain by Americans were supposed to be returned to their owners after the war. The Brits instead rounded them up and dumped them in the ocean.

You dont remember TOO right, lots of guns returned, I have one.

Send a bunch of flaming liberals my guns, after they banned guns?

No thanks.





Travis

BTW, Who am I defending it from? I stopped being afraid of the boggieman along time ago,

Use my own thanks! :-)

BTW, Who am I defending it from? I stopped being afraid of the boggieman along time ago, and we don't tend to have the same issues with black helicopters, Jade Helm, or bigfoots...

The night George Harrison thought he was dying
Ex-Beatle shouted 'Hare Krishna' to distract psychotic intruder from trying to murder him and his wife, court is told
Steven Morris
Tuesday 14 November 2000 22.05 EST
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Former Beatle George Harrison thought he had been fatally wounded by a psychotic intruder who believed he was on a mission from God to kill the pop star, an Oxford court heard yesterday.
The jury was told how Harrison and his wife Olivia fought with Michael Abrams who was armed with a knife and part of a stone sword broken from a statue of St George and the Dragon at the couple's Oxfordshire mansion.

In a statement read to the court, Harrison described tasting blood in his mouth as he lay on his back upstairs in his home, and hearing his lung deflate when Abrams plunged the knife into his chest. "There was a time during this violent struggle that I truly believed I was dying," he said.

He said he chanted "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna" at the man, in a vain effort to distract him.

Oxford crown court heard that three psychiatrists who have examined Abrams concluded that he intended to kill Harri son because he believed the star had possessed him. But they also decided that he did not realise he was doing wrong because of these "delusional" beliefs.

There was no dispute, the prosecution said, that Abrams, who is from Liverpool, carried out the attack on December 30 last year. But it was up to the jury to decide if his plea that he was not guilty of attempting to kill Harrison and his wife "by reason of insanity" should be accepted. According to the prosecution, the defendant believed God had sent him on the murder mission.

Abrams, 34, who wore a pinstriped suit in court, showed no emotion as a vivid statement which Harrison gave to police after the attack was read out in court.

Harrison, 57, said that he had locked up and joined his wife in bed at around 2.10am. He had spent the previous evening visiting his brother and had watched a film at his mansion at Henley-on-Thames, which is surrounded by a high security fence.

At about 3.20am Olivia Harrison awakened her husband to say she had heard smashing glass. Her first thought was that a chandelier had fallen but she soon realised that someone must be in the house. Harrison said in his police statement that he put a jacket over his pyjamas and slipped on a pair of boots.

While Mrs Harrison phoned staff and the police he went down to the kitchen and found a window broken. Lying nearby was a stone wing which Harrison recognised from the statute of St George.

He smelled cigarette smoke and shouted to his wife that someone was in the house. He went back upstairs but then came back out on to a gallery that overlooks the ground floor. Glancing down, he saw an intruder in the main hall.

Harrison said: "He stopped in the centre of the room and looked towards me. He started shouting and screaming." The man was yelling: "You get down here." Harrison asked who he was. The man replied: "You know, get down here."

Harrison spotted the knife and the stone sword; a "personal memory" of another incident - which he did not specify - flashed through his mind. He said: "I made the decision to shout back at him to distract him. I looked down and shouted Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna."

The tactic did not work and the intruder advanced up the stairs. Knowing that his wife and mother-in-law were in the house Harrison decided to fight back. Armed only with the "element of surprise" he lunged at Abrams.

"My first instinct was to grab for the knife," Harrison said.

"We fell to the floor," he continued. "I was fending off blows with my hands. He was on top of me and stabbing down at my upper body."

Mrs Harrison came out and began hitting Abrams with a small brass poker. The intruder chased her and grabbed her by the throat.

Harrison said he staggered after his wife and Abrams, and at one point the three of them fell into a "meditation area" with cushions scattered on the floor.

Harrison said: "I felt exhausted and could feel the strength draining from me. I vividly remember a deliberate thrust to my chest. I could hear my lung exhaling and had blood in my mouth. I believed I had been fatally stabbed." The wound, one of five, caused the lung to collapse and left Harrison with breathing difficulties. His wife suffered head cuts and bruises.

Giving evidence from the witness box Mrs Harrison, 54, said: "There was blood on the walls and on the carpet. There was a moment when I realised we were going to be murdered - I realised that this man was succeeding."

Watched by the couple's son Dhani, 22, Mrs Harrison told how she grabbed a heavy table lamp and began swinging it at Abrams, who gripped the cord of the lamp and began pulling it towards him. Mrs Harrison threw the lamp at him and ran downstairs to find the police had arrived.

A police officer said that as Abrams was taken away he said: "You should have heard the spooky things he was saying, the bastard."

Prosecuting, Simon Mayo said the case was unusual. There was no dispute about what had happened but the trial was focusing on the defendant's mental condition. The trial continues.

Attacker believed he was on God's mission

Michael Abrams was described by Olivia Harrison as being "crazed and frenzied" on the night of the attack, writes Steven Morris . His hair was long, "straw-like" and unkempt, and he wore a black leather jacket. She was struck by his eyes which were "wild and staring". Throughout the attack he did not say a word - which she described as "odd".

After Abrams was arrested a police doctor examined him and concluded immediately that he was likely to be suffering from a psychotic condition and could be a paranoid schizophrenic.

The court was told that Abrams believed he was being possessed by George Harrison and had been sent on a mission by God to kill him.

Three psychiatrists were unanimous in their conclusion that he had a "complex delusional system".

He had travelled from his home in Liverpool on occasions prior to the attack and had asked local people about Harrison. On the night of the assault he was found with a cord some 100cm (40in) long on him.

Simon Mayo, prosecuting, said there was no dispute about Abrams' mental state but English law demanded that a jury makes findings on "issues of in sanity". He said that the jury may be directed to find not guilty verdicts "by reason of insanity".

Abrams, the court was told, has since expressed "considerable remorse" at his actions. He realised now how terrified the Harrisons must have been and had told doctors that he wanted to apologise to them.

In the dock Abrams looked very different to the figure who had confronted the pop star and his wife on that night.

His blond hair was cut short and he wore a smart black pinstripe suit, white shirt, pink tie and round spectacles.

Don't even go there the average Brit lacks not only the ability to use a firearm , but the will to do so. Let them don their Bowler hats and have at the intruders with umbrellas.

So you never have home invasions? There are no predators are deranged individuals in your fair land?

Really...must be a different Englishman than we get visiting here.
The lot I have dealt with didn't seem like they fit your description.

Now that I think about it, I've never filed a claim on my home insurance and my wife has never used my life insurance. I'll call Monday and cancel both.

I don't know about you foreigners, but we used ours to kick the living schit out of a group of tyrannical fugkwads. More than once.
Travis

Those English are some real badass mofo's alright. If you really piss them off they might use a rolled up People Magazine on ya.

Going back in history to even before the Romans, you won't find a period of peace lasting more than 10 year when we haven't either been fighting internally or in external wars..

When the time comes, the Brits have never been slow taking up arms, either for or against the Government of the day, we just don't get paranoid about it..

Going back in history to even before the Romans, you won't find a period of peace lasting more than 10 year when we haven't either been fighting internally or in external wars..

When the time comes, the Brits have never been slow taking up arms, either for or against the Government of the day, we just don't get paranoid about it..

When the time comes, the Brits have never been slow taking up arms, either for or against the Government of the day, we just don't get paranoid about it..

Yeah well I think it's high time you become 'paranoid' about it. You're being completely over-run by third worlders and a rolled up People Magazine just ain't gonna cut it.

For Christs sakes get some balls.

True...when you were still predominately English.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11362013/Violent-crime-surges-16-in-new-figures.html


Over 700,000 Violent offenses in the last year, including over 24 THOUSAND rapes.

From the data article:

There were 24,043 rapes in recorded crime figures for the year, a rise of 31 per cent on the previous 12 months and 81 per cent higher than a decade earlier.

I bet that the 24,000 rape victims would have liked to have the right to ward off their attackers with a weapon, let alone the more than 1/2 million other violent crimes victims.


Not exactly a peaceful utopia.

There is something not right with you.

There's the rub, historically we've never been "predominately English"...Truth is we've always been a mongrel race by dint of war, trade and immigration..Heck, even that most English of icons, St George was actually a Palestinian or Syrian who served as a soldier in the Roman army!

Pete, if you think the rubbish that have been coming into England for the past fifteen years is ever going to stand with the Englishmen that are left then you are sadly mistaken.


We are seeing what the black bastards from Africa get up to here...because some mongrel politicians thought it was a good idea to lend a helping hand by letting the miserable filth in.

They are animals for the most part.

Oh probably, but if the true ethnic Brits are ok getting their heritage and bloodlines wiped out forever by Nigerian and Pakistanis and every other vermin that crawls the earth, who am I to judge. Right?

I won't be sending any guns or Ammo.

Everything I have stored along with millions of other Americans is going to get put to good use in the near future.



Shod

Nothing a stiff upper lip can't fix.

Law of nature, eat or be eaten.

Fortunately we still have the means to fend off the savages, but I guess that's paranoia talking.

All I know is that Noah built the Ark before the rains began, might be a lesson there.

Remind me...how many muslims are you importing?

Exactly why it has nothing to do with paranoia, as Pete suggested.

I still think it all started to go tits up when women got the vote...they just have different priorities than blokes.

Don't even go there the average Brit lacks not only the ability to use a firearm , but the will to do so. Let them don their Bowler hats and have at the intruders with umbrellas.

This.

Can's argue.

Let's face it the White race is doomed.

Somewhere along the line, we, the White male, turned total puszy and let our homelands be invaded by savages of all stripes looking to leech off the White man's civilization.

End times. Europe gonna look like Mudville. US... Mexico north, Australia...well I don't know jack about that place but the big cities do look beautiful there...for now.

In 1940 yes, today no way.

Going back in history to even before the Romans, you won't find a period of peace lasting more than 10 year when we haven't either been fighting internally or in external wars..

When the time comes, the Brits have never been slow taking up arms, either for or against the Government of the day, we just don't get paranoid about it..

You were able to type that in English.

You're welcome.



Travis

You can enter the conversation when you don't live in a third-world schit hole.




Travis

Going back in history to even before the Romans, you won't find a period of peace lasting more than 10 year when we haven't either been fighting internally or in external wars..

When the time comes, the Brits have never been slow taking up arms, either for or against the Government of the day, we just don't get paranoid about it..