Fed up with the declining security situation in the UK, many Britons are choosing to travel to the continent and arm themselves--illegally.  But is this the criminal class choosing to arm itself--gangsters, thugs, and thieves?  On the contrary, British customs and Scotland Yard identify these transgressors as “respectable people worried about their security” and  “ law-abiding people, often young couples."  Under the conventional wisdom of gun control, not being in compliance with the law makes you a criminal.  Not the actual commission of criminal acts.  They are taking a big risk to practice their fundamental rights and even larger risks to actually exercise them.  

The right to self-defense is the most fundamental of our rights upon which all others rest.  A government that doesn’t recognize the primacy of an individual's right to self-defense has no incentive to respect other tertiary human rights such as speech, property, religious freedom, etc.

As more and more of the law-abiding middle class of England become technical criminals, hopefully the government will come to its senses and decriminalize the right to self-defense.  A more likely outcome will be ill-conceived buybacks and indemnity programs which will just disarm more law-abiding citizens or give criminals an easy way to get rid of evidence.