Keith Chegwin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 03, 2018 10:36 pm
As for the weapon bans, the knives are basically the same as your gun control and some people feel more reassured that police can't just gun you down on a whim (and honestly, given the calibre of police in country I'm not so sure I disagree).
I'm sure that's people's thinking but it's pretty silly. German police wear guns and in 2016 11 people were shot, 28 were wounded by the police. No casualties. The regular German police officer is fairly dumb and yet nothing more happened.
Keep in mind that there are also many more legal gun owners in Germany than in the UK per capita.
Personally, I'd be more concerned about police not being able to do jack shit against some random shooter or terrorist until SEK comes rolling in. Sure would be neat to be able to stop some cunt in a car on a bridge from running people over intentionally, no?
Keith Chegwin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 04, 2018 1:08 am
It's not the unelected representatives that are the problem.
Basically, you look at Britain and you'll understand why America is the way it is. Britain does not have a constitution as such. There is no set of God given laws that the government cannot, under any circumstance, violate. What we do have, is Parliamentary Sovereignty. It basically means that Parliament have absolute power over the law in Britain and the reason have this is on the theory that Parliament are chosen by the people to represent the people and if Parliament abuse their power, the people can overthrow them. But when you've got a system that really only allows you to chose between either A or B, when you've got foreign infiltrators slowly determining who A or B are and what they represent, and you've got a populace being slowly declawed over time by government that has absolute authority over the law, you get what we've got.
This is the exact same problem in Germany. There is no such thing as to vote an outsider into power in any way. A Trump is totally impossible to happen here. The two big parties give you a candidate each to vote as chancellor. You have zero choice of that candidate. The president is elected by the parties without any citizen influence.
The AfD or some similar party can't ever get into government except as an oppositional party. All the established parties simply won't work together with them and that's it. They would need to get 51% of all votes and that happening in a Krautland after 60+ years of brainwashing is utterly impossible.
All under a guise to "prevent another Hitler", set in place by the allied forces. In reality, it's just total prevention of democracy being able to do anything besides being a minor annoyance to the establishment. You can't drain a swamp if that's all there is and all you have is a straw.