Pensioner arrested for chasing away youths with piece of wood
By Nigel Bunyan
Last Updated: 4:33PM BST 08/07/2008
A pensioner who used a piece of wood to chase away a gang of teenagers who had been throwing stones at his home is facing a jail term after being arrested and charged with possessing an offensive weapon.
Sydney Davis, 65, a father-of-two, dialled 999 when his home in the Pinehurst area of Swindon, Wilts, came under attack.
But when police failed to turn up over the next two hours he decided to take action himself.
He grabbed a section of wood from a broken-up sofa lying in his front garden and chased the youths down the street - just as police officers finally arrived.
Mr Davis, a retired builder, was astonished when police arrested him while allowing the gang to run to safety.
Mr Davis, whose windows have been smashed five times in the last eight months, branded the law "a colossal ass".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2269229/Pensioner-arrested-for-chasing-away-youths-with-plank.html Banning guns for the most part...and proposing to ban knives...and now this...is that what "civilized" means when the people that talk about "the civilized world" in the gun debate? If it is, they can have it...just not in America.
Those "old dead rich white guys"...some people say they never envisioned the weaponry available in this day and age when they penned the second amendment...what would they say about the story above? Lets have a look at what they might say:
"Whereas by supposing they have given up themselves to the absolute arbitrary power and will of a legislator, they have disarmed themselves, and armed him to make a prey of them when he pleases..." John Locke
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property...Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." Thomas Paine
I wonder if Mr. Davis would call his ordeal "Horrid mischief"...I certainly would.