matt87
Perhaps I should make aspersions about your country sir. However, since that's not we do round here, I will not.
I should point out that it is a program produced by the BBC, which has a history of being a lap-dog to government whims. (The BBC is funded by a compulsory television tax, and turkeys don't vote for Christmas.) THAT may explain it.
Yes I know that there are British subjects who own firearms and were forced to give up their handguns to be crushed and melted down in 1997. I feel for you folks. There is much about England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdon that I admire. I own several Lee Enfield rifles and a Webley MK VI that I'm very fond of.
Actually I enjoy alot of England's television and movie productions. The Sweeney, Dr. Who (that's right), A Midsummer Murder, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, and so on. All shows I have enjoyed tremendously over the years.
However the official party line from your national goverment, and therefore the BBC, is one that is anti-gun and anti self-defense. As you pointed out Dr. Who is a BBC production which makes it something of a branch of the British goverment.
This is not a slur merely an observation. Once again allow me to point out what happened in 97 and also the late eighties after that maniac went on his shooting spree in the small village. Sorry the name escapes me. And for that matter what resulted after the bank robbers were cornered and went down shooting in 1911 in London. The one that Winston Churchill went to. If I remember correctly the aftermath was the start of handgun registeration in England.
Your country has been a good friend and ally of the United States. Your performance in 1940 and 1941 was magnificant. You held the line in 1916 and 1917 when the French were in danger of crumbling and in the Cold War your nation was one of the few NATO nations that actually stood beside my country.
But your countrymen come across as being very uncomfortable with the idea of private gunownership and self-defense. That's the way it look to me across the ocean. And, in all fairness, I've seen some British shows and read more than a few British articles that are very uncomplimentary to my nation and fellow countrymen as well.
It's the way of the world. Hopefully this clears things up.