A friend emailed me this story , Its unbelievable !
> You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
>
> Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear,
>
> you hear muffled whispers.
>
>
>
>
>
> At least two people have broken into your
>
> house and are moving your way.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> With your heart pumping, you reach down
>
> beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.
>
>
>
> You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch
>
> toward the door and open it.
>
> In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
>
>
>
> One holds something that looks like a crowbar.
>
> When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike,
>
> you raise the shotgun and fire.
>
>
>
> The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
>
> One writhes and screams while the second
>
>
>
> man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.
>
> As you pick up the telephone to call police,
>
> you know you're in trouble.
>
>
>
> In your country, most guns were outlawed years
>
>
>
> before, and the few that are privately owned
>
> are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..
>
>
>
> Yours was never registered.
>
> Police arrive and inform you
>
> that the second burglar has died.
>
>
>
> They arrest you for First Degree Murder
>
> and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.
>
> When you talk to your attorney, he tells
>
> you not to worry: authorities will probably
>
> plea the case down to manslaughter.
>
>
>
> "What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.
>
> "Only ten-to-twelve years,"
>
> he replies, as if that's nothing.
>
>
>
> "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."
>
>
>
> The next day, the shooting is the lead
>
> story in the local newspaper.
>
>
>
> Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric
>
> vigilante while the two men you shot
>
> are represented as choirboys.
>
>
>
> Their friends and relatives can't find
>
> an unkind word to say about them..
>
>
>
> Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims"
> have been arrested numerous times.
>
>
>
> But the next day's headline says it all:
>
> "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."
>
> The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type
> pranksters..
>
>
>
> As the days wear on, the story takes wings.
>
> The national media picks it up,
>
> then the international media.
>
>
>
> The surviving burglar
>
> has become a folk hero.
>
>
>
>
>
> Your attorney says the thief is preparing
>
> to sue you, and he'll probably win.
>
>
>
> The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several
> times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their
> lack
>
> of effort in apprehending the suspects.
>
>
>
> After the last break-in, you told your neighbor
>
> that you would be prepared next time.
>
>
>
> The District Attorney uses this to allege
>
> that you were lying in wait for the burglars.
>
>
>
>
>
> A few months later, you go to trial.
>
> The charges haven't been reduced,
>
> as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.
>
>
>
> When you take the stand, your anger at
>
> the injustice of it all works against you..
>
>
>
> Prosecutors paint a picture of you
>
> as a mean, vengeful man.
>
>
>
> It doesn't take long for the jury to convict
>
> you of all charges.
>
>
>
> The judge sentences you to life in prison.
>
>
>
> This case really happened.
>
>
>
> On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one
> burglar and wounded a second.
>
>
>
> In April, 2000, he was convicted
>
> and is now serving a life term..
>
>
>
>
>
> How did it become a crime to defend one's
>
> own life in the once great British Empire ?
>
>
>
>
>
> It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
>
> This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons
> and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a
> license.
>
> The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but
> all firearms except shotguns..
>
>
>
>
>
> Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by
> private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.
>
>
>
> Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the
> Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.
>
> Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down
> the streets shooting everyone he saw.
>
>
>
> When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
>
>
>
> The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control",
> demanded even tougher restrictions.
>
> (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though
> Ryan used a rifle.)
>
>
>
> Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland,
>
> Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a
> teacher at a public school.
>
>
>
> For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable,
> or worse, criminals.
>
> Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
>
> Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of
> objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
>
> The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few
> sidearms still owned by private citizens.
>
>
>
> During the years in which the British government incrementally took away
> most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed
> self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
>
> Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened,
> claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
>
> Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real
> criminals were released.
>
>
>
>
>
> Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,
>
> "We cannot have people
>
> take the law into their own hands."
>
>
>
> All of Martin's neighbors
>
> had been robbed numerous times,
>
> and several elderly people were severely injured
>
> in beatings by young thugs
>
> who had no fear of the consequences.
>
> Martin himself, a collector of antiques,
>
> had seen most of his collection
>
> trashed or stolen by burglars.
>
>
>
> When the Dunblane Inquiry ended,
>
> citizens who owned handguns
>
> were given three months to turn them over
>
> to local authorities.
>
>
>
> Being good British subjects,
>
> most people obeyed the law.
>
> The few who didn't were visited by police
>
> and threatened with ten-year prison sentences
>
> if they didn't comply.
>
>
>
> Police later bragged that they'd taken
>
> nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
>
>
>
> How did the authorities know who had handguns?
>
> The guns had been registered and licensed.
>
> Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?
>
>
>
>
>
> WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT
> IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
>
>
>
> "...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
> minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
>
> --Samuel Adams
> You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
>
> Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear,
>
> you hear muffled whispers.
>
>
>
>
>
> At least two people have broken into your
>
> house and are moving your way.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> With your heart pumping, you reach down
>
> beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.
>
>
>
> You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch
>
> toward the door and open it.
>
> In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
>
>
>
> One holds something that looks like a crowbar.
>
> When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike,
>
> you raise the shotgun and fire.
>
>
>
> The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
>
> One writhes and screams while the second
>
>
>
> man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.
>
> As you pick up the telephone to call police,
>
> you know you're in trouble.
>
>
>
> In your country, most guns were outlawed years
>
>
>
> before, and the few that are privately owned
>
> are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..
>
>
>
> Yours was never registered.
>
> Police arrive and inform you
>
> that the second burglar has died.
>
>
>
> They arrest you for First Degree Murder
>
> and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.
>
> When you talk to your attorney, he tells
>
> you not to worry: authorities will probably
>
> plea the case down to manslaughter.
>
>
>
> "What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.
>
> "Only ten-to-twelve years,"
>
> he replies, as if that's nothing.
>
>
>
> "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."
>
>
>
> The next day, the shooting is the lead
>
> story in the local newspaper.
>
>
>
> Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric
>
> vigilante while the two men you shot
>
> are represented as choirboys.
>
>
>
> Their friends and relatives can't find
>
> an unkind word to say about them..
>
>
>
> Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims"
> have been arrested numerous times.
>
>
>
> But the next day's headline says it all:
>
> "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."
>
> The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type
> pranksters..
>
>
>
> As the days wear on, the story takes wings.
>
> The national media picks it up,
>
> then the international media.
>
>
>
> The surviving burglar
>
> has become a folk hero.
>
>
>
>
>
> Your attorney says the thief is preparing
>
> to sue you, and he'll probably win.
>
>
>
> The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several
> times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their
> lack
>
> of effort in apprehending the suspects.
>
>
>
> After the last break-in, you told your neighbor
>
> that you would be prepared next time.
>
>
>
> The District Attorney uses this to allege
>
> that you were lying in wait for the burglars.
>
>
>
>
>
> A few months later, you go to trial.
>
> The charges haven't been reduced,
>
> as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.
>
>
>
> When you take the stand, your anger at
>
> the injustice of it all works against you..
>
>
>
> Prosecutors paint a picture of you
>
> as a mean, vengeful man.
>
>
>
> It doesn't take long for the jury to convict
>
> you of all charges.
>
>
>
> The judge sentences you to life in prison.
>
>
>
> This case really happened.
>
>
>
> On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one
> burglar and wounded a second.
>
>
>
> In April, 2000, he was convicted
>
> and is now serving a life term..
>
>
>
>
>
> How did it become a crime to defend one's
>
> own life in the once great British Empire ?
>
>
>
>
>
> It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
>
> This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons
> and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a
> license.
>
> The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but
> all firearms except shotguns..
>
>
>
>
>
> Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by
> private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.
>
>
>
> Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the
> Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.
>
> Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down
> the streets shooting everyone he saw.
>
>
>
> When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
>
>
>
> The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control",
> demanded even tougher restrictions.
>
> (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though
> Ryan used a rifle.)
>
>
>
> Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland,
>
> Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a
> teacher at a public school.
>
>
>
> For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable,
> or worse, criminals.
>
> Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
>
> Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of
> objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
>
> The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few
> sidearms still owned by private citizens.
>
>
>
> During the years in which the British government incrementally took away
> most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed
> self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
>
> Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened,
> claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
>
> Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real
> criminals were released.
>
>
>
>
>
> Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,
>
> "We cannot have people
>
> take the law into their own hands."
>
>
>
> All of Martin's neighbors
>
> had been robbed numerous times,
>
> and several elderly people were severely injured
>
> in beatings by young thugs
>
> who had no fear of the consequences.
>
> Martin himself, a collector of antiques,
>
> had seen most of his collection
>
> trashed or stolen by burglars.
>
>
>
> When the Dunblane Inquiry ended,
>
> citizens who owned handguns
>
> were given three months to turn them over
>
> to local authorities.
>
>
>
> Being good British subjects,
>
> most people obeyed the law.
>
> The few who didn't were visited by police
>
> and threatened with ten-year prison sentences
>
> if they didn't comply.
>
>
>
> Police later bragged that they'd taken
>
> nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
>
>
>
> How did the authorities know who had handguns?
>
> The guns had been registered and licensed.
>
> Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?
>
>
>
>
>
> WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT
> IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
>
>
>
> "...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
> minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
>
> --Samuel Adams