Why America Does Not Imprison Facebook Posters Like the UK Does

Hint: It is not because our pols are better than theirs

America’s anti-Second Amendment elites say we should be more like the UK, where almost no one is allowed to own a gun.

Yep, the UK government successfully disarmed its citizens. Now that same government sentences people to years in prison if they put wrongthink in a Facebook post.

That is unthinkable in America not because our political leaders are more virtuous than the UK’s political leaders. They are certainly not. Leftist pols especially would put a gag in your mouth today if they thought they could get away with it.

So what is the difference? They are not sure they can get away with it, obviously. The UK’s pols do not fear their defenseless subjects. Our pols have a healthy respect for the limits of their power. They push us hard, true, but they understand that they can push us only so far before things get sporty. You can thank the Second Amendment for that.