I’ve often noted that when otherwise law-abiding people are driven to kill government agents, it’s mostly because said government is either taking or destroying that person’s property. Here’s one such example:
Albert Dryden gunned down Harry Collinson in front of journalists when his illegally-built bungalow was due to be demolished in Butsfield, County Durham in 1991.
Harry Collinson was enforcing the demolition of Dryden’s illegally-built bungalow when Dryden drew a First World War gun and shot him dead in front of local media on June 20, 1991.
As well as shooting 46-year-old Mr Collinson, he also wounded police officer Stephen Campbell in the buttock and reporter Tony Belmont in the arm.
Okay, you maniacs can quit laughing now… although you have to admit that shooting a cop in the Butsfield [sic] and blasting a reporter may well have caused a quick grin or even a chuckle in some quarters. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Note that the dramatis personae of the shootees was the bureaucrat enforcing the dumb rule, the cop providing the weight of the law to its enforcement, and the media lizard who came to film (and broadcast) the confrontation because media gonna media.
Note too that all this took place in oh-so disarmed Britishland, which should offer a lesson to all gummint types, namely: don’t fuck with an old fart who has nothing to lose.
The only glum part of the report is that Our Hero apparently repented in later life. Not sure I would.
Sometimes we wonder, with gun control being a career killer in politics, why politicians keep yammering for it. This here is why. And why we need to keep said guns in the hands of the people. And keep the politicians scared.
Also note that today, no politician worth his salt would ever show up at a site for demolition of private property. All we’d have to shoot at would be cops and construction workers. The people responsible always maintain a safe distance.