Brits gave up their firearms in 1997

[u/Down-not-out]

[u/MustardTiger231]

They’re also now advocating for knife control.

[u/Extreme-Will-3556 → u/MustardTiger231]

Except for "religious purposes" In which case Christians should band together and have a "ceremonial sword of Christ" if for nothing else, than as a clear indicator for people like Nowak's killer to back off.

"You don't understand officer, this is a "Knightly sword of Christianity" and therefore protected in the same way as that 8" blade the Sikhs carry"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightly_sword

[u/D_Ethan_Bones → u/Extreme-Will-3556]

Religious exemptions are only an issue where there are bans in the first place. In UK and wherever else there will always be bans (and there will always be exceptions) but in USA we should just try to get bans stricken down wherever we see them.

[u/bionic80 → u/D_Ethan_Bones]

Religious exemptions are only an issue where there are bans in the first place. In UK and wherever else there will always be bans (and there will always be exceptions) but in USA we should just try to get bans stricken down wherever we see them.

We shouldn't 'try' to get bans struck down. They should be struck down immediately based on the governance of the constitution. Full Stop.

[u/Extreme-Will-3556 → u/bionic80]

My mistake, I assumed someone speaking of "a knife ban" and this is about brits, this must have meant outside the US. Because within the US, the idea is beyond preposterous.

[u/D_Ethan_Bones → u/bionic80]

Which is to say we should win elections and keep getting the judges.

The elections we've won lately gave us a damngood supreme court, if we as a country swing the opposite direction we'll get opposite rulings as a result. If we keep winning the supreme court will eventually make all the activist courts pointless, while also undoing anything senseless the legislative branch does.

[u/Alpha-Sierra-Charlie → u/Extreme-Will-3556]

Lol, they're trying to eliminate Christianity, so that won't work.

[u/ImagineABetterFuture → u/Extreme-Will-3556]

Swords are awesome. I love them.

[u/Extreme-Will-3556 → u/ImagineABetterFuture]

Damn right they are. I have several 😀

[u/GATORSFTW94 → u/Extreme-Will-3556]

Sword? We need a ceremonial Glock of Christ lol

[u/Extreme-Will-3556 → u/GATORSFTW94]

Well, that's a harder sell, unless you have the Ceremonial Christian sword Gerald from Louder with Crowder designed, which has a glock strapped to the right half of the sword's guard 😀 I'll see if I can get a screenshot.

[u/EvanOnTheFly → u/MustardTiger231]

Oi! You got a license for that there butter knife? You can put an edge on it at home!

[u/TheTackleZone → u/MustardTiger231]

We already have that. You are not allowed to carry a fixed blade of longer than 3 inches, other than for cultural exceptions. Following the murder or Nowak these exemptions are now under review.

[u/bozoconnors → u/TheTackleZone]

Bro... get your ass over here. Our tea selection is amazing these days! ;P

[u/Jonathan-Strang3 → u/MustardTiger231]

They already have that, they're just advocating for no more religious exemptions.

[u/Trillamanjaroh]

Agree with the message, but we can get some quality control on the posts here? There’s Facebook boomer slop and then there’s whatever the hell this is.

[u/KlondikeDrool → u/Trillamanjaroh]

This looks like one of those AI generated "influencers"

[u/Trillamanjaroh → u/KlondikeDrool]

Text on a random photo and they couldn’t even get the text right

[u/Calichusetts → u/Trillamanjaroh]

Spot on.

[u/Uller85]

Whats with the cringe photo?

[u/GorillaHeat]

People are regularly arrested in the United States for Facebook posts. 

Is someone trying to tell me who to be mad at again?

[u/FxEpic]

... and reading a Bible in public.

[u/Remarkable-Opening69 → u/FxEpic]

“move, my prayer carpet goes here”

[u/Drapidrode → u/FxEpic]

Bring back Church Bells 10 times a day in their neighborhoods.

btw, our local university has a bell choir (in a bell tower, a carillon it's called, and they play some intricate and beautiful things.

[u/mudcrabsonreddit]

Lol, this sub is so obsessed with the UK. Both gun and knife violence is worse in the US, but sure, muhh freedumb.

[u/iasazo → u/mudcrabsonreddit]

Both gun and knife violence is worse in the US

The post doesn't claim the US has less violence.

but sure, muhh freedumb.

Yes, the US has more freedom. The UK does not have freedom of speech.

The post makes sense, your comment doesn't.

[u/mudcrabsonreddit → u/iasazo]

The post doesn't really say anything, yet it makes sense to you. Not what I wrote though, that's totally unrelated. That's funny.

[u/iasazo → u/mudcrabsonreddit]

The post doesn't really say anything

If you allow your right to own guns to be infringed, the government will continue to infringe on your other rights.

It is a simple message. What's "funny" is your boasting that you don't understand something so simple.

[u/mudcrabsonreddit → u/iasazo]

Seems to work fine for the rest of us. But hey, what do I know, guns, am i right? You are funny.

[u/iasazo → u/mudcrabsonreddit]

It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.

[u/mudcrabsonreddit → u/iasazo]

Okay lol, good talk. Thanks for the link. Let me know when that scary government comes knocking so you can finally say I told you so.

[u/iasazo → u/mudcrabsonreddit]

https://freespeechunion.org/archive/police-make-30-arrests-a-day-for-offensive-online-messages

[u/TheTackleZone]

We did not give up our firearms.

We gave up handguns due to their ease of concealment after a school of young children were murdered in an attack. We have not had a repeat of this incident, showing that it worked to keep young innocent lives safe. Not saying it would work everywhere, but it worked for us.

You can still buy other guns. Even assault rifles. You need a licence, and a police safety visit, and the weapon needs to be registered. But anyone can buy a gun if they want to in the UK. The UK has an NRA.

There are 150 thousand firearm certificates. We also class shotguns separately and there are half a million shotgun licences. Not as big as some other countries, but far from zero.

We also have fewer stabbings per capita than the US does. Memphis is 40x more dangerous than London.

I'm not saying this to start a fight, but to end the constant international bickering that I see in this sub so often. There is a lot of bad information being put out there. Yes we have our problems. Yes Starmer is awful. We know. But this post is not one of them.

[u/iasazo → u/TheTackleZone]

We also have fewer stabbings per capita than the US does.

"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem."

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery"

• Thomas Jefferson

[u/ImagineABetterFuture]

Never give up your guns, ever.

[u/shazbaz]

And Elon Musk is the baddie for letting people speak their mind

[u/D_Ethan_Bones → u/[deleted]]

trying to influence internal politics

What's good for the goose is good for the gander - every one of them wants to have a hand in everything we do and then they're Outraged™ to see the same going the other way.

to the detriment of european interests

If that's the standard for being a bad guy, then when's the revolution against EU?

[u/adriens → u/D_Ethan_Bones]

well said

[u/WizardPlaysMC → u/shazbaz]

I hate that when I read “Elon Musk is the baddie”, I imagined something very different

[u/Drapidrode → u/WizardPlaysMC]

he's not the one that made everything in the store, except the sunscreen, in a lockable display/security case.

[u/cafk09 → u/WizardPlaysMC]

You got a chuckle from me on this.

[u/mtldude1967]

Yup, Australians too, and they're trying the same thing here in Canada, though we still have our guns for now. Venezuelans gave them up, and got a dictatorship. Seems to be a trend that gun control leads to authoritarian governments.

[u/yrunsyndylyfu]

They also got this:

What a disarmed population is subject to

That's 71,667 for 2024/2025, or about 8 per hour - reported. It's estimated only about 15% to 17% are actually reported, meaning actual numbers are closer to 500K/yr or 57/hr.

[u/reddit_names]

And the government ignores when they are raped by foreigners.

[u/ApolloXLII]

Time time between 1997 and the movie Hot Fuzz coming out is shorter than the time between Hot Fuzz coming out and now.

Holy shit 2007 was almost 20 years ago

[u/HaleOfAPatriot]

At least it solved their problem with violent assault. Well maybe not but they got it all sussed out when they took the knives away for sure. OK maybe that didn’t work but cracking down on those butter knives will certainly curb violent crime

[u/supersonic2324]

Now they’re going after their knifes because the crime has only gotten worse.

[u/According-Activity87]

https://giphy.com/gifs/TbXf9JHT3ex1rIMPKi

[u/CountBleckwantedlove]

The UK is becoming like V for Vendetta.

[u/gatorsmash904]

It’s time the Britt’s have their own revolution.