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I am actually quite speechless after reading this story on the BBC News site about the BNP’s election manifesto, which includes:
Mr Griffin also wants the reintroduction of national service and said everyone who had undergone it should be required to keep a modern assault rifle at home.
“It’s there to shoot burglars with if they want, it’s there to shoot people who invade this country if they want, and if in the end a tyrannical government wants to usurp the rights and freedoms of the people it is there to use against the government as well,” he said.
It’s not so much the guns in houses thing that bothers me: it’s the ‘if they want’ attitude.
As for using your weapons against the government… that sounds like a very strange strain of democracy to me. Would one loner have the right to gun down the cabinet because he believed his freedoms had been usurped in some way?
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