To fight against not just the gun grabbers, but against the anti-self defense crowd.
In this story, pointed out by Lee at Right Thinking, it is told that Irish Prime Minister is going to ban numerous pre-modern era, idiotic laws.
Ireland’s High Court struck down a 19th century law against begging on Thursday, ruling in favor of a beggar who had argued that his arrest violated a right to free speech, broadcaster RTE reported.
Justice Eamon De Valera rejected the argument made by Niall Dillon that the law discriminated between rich and poor.
But the judge agreed that a section of the Vagrancy Act of 1847, enacted during the Great Famine, was unconstitutional because it interfered with the rights of freedom of expression and freedom to communicate with other people.
Dillon was arrested for begging in Dublin in 2003 and charged under the law. Following the ruling, his prosecution can no longer go ahead.
Prime Minister Bertie Ahern unveiled plans in 2004 to repeal thousands of English and British laws — some dating back to William the Conqueror in the 11th century — that were enacted prior to Irish Independence in 1922 and remain in force.
Begging is a form of self-expression? Sure why not. But then so is grafitti, right?
OK, that isn’t the discussion I wanted to start.
Check out the very next paragraph in the story
More obscure acts such as one from the 12th century forbidding monks “to receive men unless their reputation is known” and another banning Jews from owning chain mail will be struck off the statute books altogether.
Ignore the receiving monks and read that last bit again. Hmm, I wonder why the overwhelmingly large Catholic Christian ruling class would have banned the ownership of armor by Jews?
Probably because they didn’t like them all that much.
So now look around you at politics both locally and nationally and you will find proposed laws that seek to ban not only modern body armor, but also NVG’s, and even Handcuff Keys (hit that link, Oregon residents) among the general populace.
There is only one reason I can think of that they would want to do this: Because the political class doesn’t like us very much.
History is constantly repeating itself.