Quote of the Day
Brits surrendered their firearms in 1997.
Less than 30 years later, they’re being arrested for Facebook posts.
That’s not “safety.” That’s the speed of tyranny once a government knows its citizens can’t push back.
When people are disarmed, the state no longer fears the people. And when governments have zero fear of the people, they do whatever the hell they want.
Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy
Posted on X, April 4, 2026
From later in the same thread:
Brits giving up their weapons has a very long history dating back well before 1997. Milestones include Crossbow etc Act of 1514 (etc was guns), the Game Act of 1670 (special attention for Fudds), the Papists Act of 1688 (prohibiting weapons to Catholics), the Firearms Act of 1920 (essentially may issue), the 1937 regulation that self-defense was not grounds for receiving a permit, and the Firearms Amendment Act of 1988 (prohibiting pump and semiauto long guns). Only then do we get to 1997.
Our British cousins appear to have decided that Orwell’s numerous warnings were instead manuals for their government. Here’s yet another of his explicit warnings they ignored and have now become victims of their own totalitarian government…
“ THAT RIFLE HANING ON THE WALL OF THE WORKING-CLASS FLAT OR LABOURER’S COTTAGE IS THE SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY. IT IS OUR JOB TO SEE IT STAYS THERE…”. George Orwell