:-)
Ignoring the point that common law allows for self defense - back then the UK even let Catholics and other subversives own weapons.
Ignoring the point that common law allows for self defense - back then the UK even let Catholics and other subversives own weapons.
"it should not be lawful for any person or persons ... to have in his or their custody... broad sword or target, poignard, whinger, or durk, side pistol, gun, or other warlike weapon"
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandshistory/jacobit...
Basically every society preserved the right to self defence from the time humans first started to gather until now in more advanced cultures where gun possession is strictly controlled.
Ready any Sherlock Holmes story and you can see that Watson often caries a gun for protection.