De-activated!!!!!!!!!!!

[smellie]

I really wish all the people who are thankful that they are still "allowed" to own deacts would go to their nearest decent bookstore and get a copy of Volume 1 of Blackstone. It's still in print, photoengraved copies of the 1750-or-whatever edition, has interesting thoughts such as "if Liberty is ever destroyed in this country, it will be a Parliament which does it".

He says that the Common Law is the basis for all Law and that Statutes of Parliament may only ENLARGE upon the Common Law, they may NOT restrict or supplant it, and that any Statute which is contrary to the Common Law or limits the Common Law is null and void and of no force to whatever extent it limits or abrogates the Common Law.

He also says that humans have four inalienable human rights but that the FIFTH right, the right to possess and use weapons, is the NATURAL right which underpins all the others.

That's not me speaking: that's the Lord Chief Justice of England speaking.

Too bad people don't read him a little more often.
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