Quote of the Day
When Jon Richelieu-Booth boarded a plane home to England after a Florida vacation, he had no reason to believe a simple photo — a harmless picture of himself shooting a legally rented shotgun at a gun range — would soon turn his life upside down.
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The message is always the same: give up a little freedom now…we promise it’s for your own good. Richelieu-Booth’s arrest shows exactly where that road leads.
The truth is simple: freedom dies gradually… until it dies suddenly. That’s why the fight for the Second Amendment isn’t just about guns. It’s about the entire structure of American liberty. It’s about ensuring that no government — federal, state, local, or foreign — can do to an American what British authorities did to that IT consultant.
Our rights are exceptional. They are fragile. And they survive only when the people refuse to surrender them.
If we want our children and grandchildren to inherit a free nation — a nation where a photo of a gun is just a photo — then we must fight harder than ever to protect the liberties that make America the last stronghold of individual freedom. Because what happened in England must never become normal here.
Chris McNutt
December 12, 2025
What the Arrest of a British Tourist Tells Us About American Civil Rights – Shooting News Weekly
As I have said before, we should be imposing sanctions on countries which infringe up the right of their citizens to keep and bear arms. And double down if they also have a poor record on the right to free speech. This is just a single data point. There are many examples in numerous countries we once considered free.
No doubt the UK is treating the photo like child pornography. Even if it’s legal where it occurred, photos of the banned behavior constitute a separate crime. I can’t however, find any fact check evidence that such a ban exists in the UK for firearm photos. (Evidence is plentiful for the illegality of child porn photos).
What a slippery slope …
What if there is a photo of me speaking and it is asserted that I was mis-gendering someone. If I visit my folks in California, will that photo land me in jail tomorrow? Next week?
I don’t want anyone to go to jail for a photo of what was legal at the time and place it was taken, but I have no wish to legalize photos of child porn regardless of it’s legality in marginal countries (like Russia). So apparently I’m in favor of some tyranny but not other tyranny.