Suddenly the British decided that the unity forged by the British government in wartime could be created in peacetime with something called… socialism. Thus came New Labor and eventually Tony Blair.

When the British or their European cousins talk about America’s tendency to use patriotism and emergency powers in warfare to overpower criticism of government policy, they are really telling you about what they themselves did in the last century.

The results of Britain’s choice, their national choice not just the choice of a fringe group, included the banning of handguns and then shotguns for self-defense.

Now that the British need to protect themselves from individual barbarians called Muslim invaders, they have nobody to rely upon but the government and their police forces. And since the government doesn’t really care what happens to you as an individual, the government tries to protect people by grasping more police power. But it doesn’t work all that well in the long term for civil liberties, because the people continue to clamor for more protection. Protection they ain’t gonna get from the government: protection the government won’t allow the citizens to acquire on their own.

Nothing Britain experienced was unsolvable or inevitable. What was inevitable was how wussified a nation’s character becomes when you tell the citizen of that nation that they are no longer responsible for protecting themselves against criminals using violence. That is what the right to arms signifies. Not that you have a right to go trigger happy with a firearm or that you need a firearm to use violence, but that unless are allowed to have a firearm if you choose, you are no longer a warrior; you are now a sheep. And sheep aren’t allowed fangs or claws.

It is not firearms that make people into soldiers or warriors. A warrior neither needs or even particularly wants a firearm in order to kill up close. A soldier doesn’t even need an actual firearm in order to train his marksmanship in the beginning. Nor do people working artillery guns need an actual artillery gun when starting their training. It is not the tool that makes the warrior or the soldier. It is the mind of an individual, properly trained and tempered, that creates the weapon.

Thus the 2nd Amendment is simply a recognition that as a member of society, and thus responsible for protecting that society, yourself, and your loved ones, you have a right to decide what personal firearms you require for your duty.

If you don’t have that duty or the state doesn’t recognize that this is your duty, then you, being the sheep, are not allowed fangs or claws. Cause your purpose is to eat grass and produce wool, not go out and hunt enemies of humanity; you don’t need claws or fangs to eat grass. And eventually if a nation treats its citizens like that for long enough, the citizens themselves will start to believe it. As British subjects have started to believe and perhaps even have finished believing.

More than three quarters of these professionals have settled abroad for more than 10 years, according to the study by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

No other nation is losing so many qualified people, it points out. Britain has now lost more than one in 10 of its most skilled citizens, while overall only Mexico has had more people emigrate.