The headline, Police in Scunthorpe offer advice on beating burglars, sounds a lot more promising than it actually is. The days being long gone since we had the same rights as our American cousins to keep and bear arms in our own self-preservation and defence (to quote Sir William Blackstone), the usual advice from the police is to be a willing victim, and have a little sympathy for the criminal aggressor, he probably came from a broken home.

True to form, the ‘beating’ which Scunthorpe police are referring to is not to be dished out with an iron bar repeatedly to the cranium, but rather that furnished by ensuring every door and window is permanently locked, even the one in the smallest room. This, we are confidently informed, will minimise the risk that we fall prey to the predators.

A friend of mine was very recently burgled. I suggested she went onto YouTube and searched for ‘woman shoots intruder’ to cheer herself up with one of the many examples of when the private ownership of firearms is used to good effect. She wasn’t too impressed, as the thieving scum had made off with her computer. Anyway she’s not much of a gun person, seeing castration with a rusty knife the more appropriate response. I wouldn’t go that far myself, but hey. Her house, her rules.

Frank Chodorov once wrote on the subject of taxation:

If we assume that the individual has an indisputable right to life, we must concede that he has a similar right to the enjoyment of the products of his labor. This we call a property right. The absolute right to property follows from the original right to life because one without the other is meaningless; the means to life must be identified with life itself.

Out of Step pg 217 ‘Taxation is Robbery‘

Applying the logic found in this statement, the laws prohibiting the private ownership of firearms for self-defence are clearly an affront to our liberty.  Whatever the government declares in favour of our inalienable right to self-defence is meaningless, as long as it denies us the means to exercise it.