Why Can’t Even the Most Insufferably Annoying Brits Hire Their Own Armed Security?

Harry and Meghan

At the heart of Harry and Meghan’s woes is a dispute over a legal system which prohibits private armed security. In the U.S., private armed security is legal and is an enormous industry in itself. More than 1.28 million security guards work across America and, subject to the law, many can legally work armed. In Britain, self-defense is not a legally permitted reason to obtain a firearm, and even American FBI agents must get special permission from the government to carry.

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Harry and Meghan’s complaints about their overall treatment in Britain, but on security, they do have a reason to be concerned. Harry can hire private security, but those guards not only lack access to intelligence—British law prevents those guards from carrying the firearms that would allow them to provide comparable armed protection.

The question raised is bigger than the royal family. If an individual faces a credible threat and is willing to pay for highly trained, vetted private security, why should the government prevent them from doing so? Like America, Britain ought to allow the creation of a security market. The U.K. does not have to make taxpayers foot the bill for Harry and Meghan’s security, but neither should it maintain a monopoly on the kind of protection they are allowed to buy.

— Reem Ibrahim in Harry and Meghan’s Security Problem Is Really a Gun-Control Problem

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11 thoughts on “Why Can’t Even the Most Insufferably Annoying Brits Hire Their Own Armed Security?”

  1. Ef’em.
    Wherever they move to make sure to dump 20,000 “migrants” in the neighborhood.
    They have nothing to worry about now that the UK is handing out “please, don’t rape kids” pamphlets.

  2. This is why when you choose to leave your country. And move to another one. Understand that you are giving up what ever things you get from your position in your own society. And you will not be allowed to have them. In the new cotntry you freely chose to move to.

    They gave up the status of being a royal. So no guns for personal protection for you.

    England has become as violent as the US. Because the english government has flooded the country with hateful military age single men.

    I’m not sorry for these foolish rich people.

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  4. Its not often that medical mal-practice makes the news. The medical establishment pretty much covers it up by use of legal tactics, NDA’s, settling out of court quietly with an agreement to never speak of it, insiders not talking out of loyalty, and of course some good old ‘hand massaging’ of information and quiet discussions because most left wing large media outlets are also invested either directly or indirectly in the medical establishment.

    Sometimes the mal-practice is due to human error, sometimes its intentional-error, sometimes its incompetence, and sometimes its malice intent. But what ever the reason, the result is always the same because the result is always that the ‘patient’ suffers for it in some way and sometimes have their lives taken from them because of it.

    But, there is data reporting and there are ~400,000 medical mal-practice incidents annually and ~250,000 patients die as a result either directly or indirectly (i.e. the mal-practice caused an existing condition to worsen and the main cause of death reported is the existing condition, but what’s not reported in cause of death is the mal-practice that caused the condition to worsen unto death). Medical mal-practice is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease and cancer. The medical establishment calls this ‘medical error’, not mal-practice, but if we place their ‘medical error’ phrasing in context the medical establishment has a 50% error rate that results in death. Compared to ‘gun use errors’ by law abiding people carrying a firearm legally either permitted or permit-less carry, a ‘medical error’ is more than 2,000,000 times more likely to happen than a law abiding gun owner accidentally shooting someone else or their selves.

    But when a medical mal-practice incident does make the news, its usually a doozy ….

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    [note: An intentional-error is a mistake made with conscious awareness, often resulting from a deliberate choice or judgment. For example, a doctor might want to try a treatment that has worked on a lot of people but failed to adequately diagnose the patient and missed something which indicated the treatment was not for this particular patient and the treatment resulted in a health adverse risk that was detrimental to the patient.]

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  8. If Harry’s daughter is groomed and gang raped by Muslims he’ll wish for a Glock and plane ticket back to the US. Until then he can keep the fallen empire once called Britain.
    Sod off ‘arry.

  9. Fr. Random Good Guy

    The “crown” or government or whatever those wacky toothless wonders across the pond call it, don’t want any resistance when they choose to snuff someone.

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