{"id":6546,"date":"2014-09-06T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2014-09-06T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T17:38:37","slug":"a-bit-of-firearm-sanity-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/09\/06\/a-bit-of-firearm-sanity-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Firearm Sanity in Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;That the subjects\u2026 may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/eng\/eng_bor.htm\" target=\"_blank\">English Bill of Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nigel Farage, of the UK Independence Party (UKIP),\u00a0 gave an interview where he made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/ukip\/10595087\/Hand-guns-should-be-legalised-and-licensed-Nigel-Farage-has-said.html\" target=\"_blank\">a sane and rational statement<\/a>: &#8220;I think the ban on handguns is ludicrous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unsurprisingly, some freedom-hating Brits think this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anajenkins\/status\/500935419564142593\" target=\"_blank\">scary<\/a> idea:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKIP\">@UKIP<\/a> wants to legalise hand guns (<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/GvP8mfKQpK\">http:\/\/t.co\/GvP8mfKQpK<\/a>). RT so people know what the UK is facing <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/qik8IOO5I2\">pic.twitter.com\/qik8IOO5I2<\/a> MT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Voftheppl\">@Voftheppl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ana Jenkins (@anajenkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anajenkins\/statuses\/500935419564142593\">August 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While she sees an indictment.\u00a0 We see a bit of sanity starting to show up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Farage is only pushing for a mild and limited extension of a fundamental right:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I would not like us to go to the American System which strikes me as being absolutely crazy that you can go and buy automatic repeating rifles down at a local gun shop that looks more like a supermarket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Baby Steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That the subjects\u2026 may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law&#8221; &#8211; The English Bill of Rights. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nigel Farage, of the UK Independence Party (UKIP),\u00a0 gave an interview where he made a sane &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/09\/06\/a-bit-of-firearm-sanity-in-britain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[41,9,51],"class_list":["post-6546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-rights","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-europe","tag-51"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6672,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions\/6672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}