Open Carry for the UK?

Hell just got a little chillier. Still, the fact that the Christian Science Monitor (CSM) published a piece from the ultra-left wing (just kidding) Adam Smith Institute suggesting that Brits would be better off if the Queen’s subjects were allowed to openly carry guns marks some kind something in the UK debate on an individual’s right to own firearms. Because there is no gun debate in the UK. There’s about as much chance that the UK government will allow the average Brit to carry a handgun—concealed or visible—as a Massachusetts Powerball player has of winning the jackpot whilst being struck by lightning as a white shark nibbles his leg. Just for fun, here’s Nikhil Arora’s argument for open carry in The Land of Hope and Glory.

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