While there’s time when the slippery slope argument is a fallacy — private stores saying “Happy Holidays” does not mean that, next year, the government is going to arrest you for being a Christian — there are other times when it’s perfectly valid. One such time seems to be any restrictions on the rights of law-abiding, mentally fit, adults, to bear personal weapons for self defense. When I was in the SCA, a common bumper sticker was, “If guns are outlawed, can I use my sword?”. The answer from the increasingly fascistic government of the United Kingdom is “Hell, no!” First, they banned Bat’leths, leaving Great Britain increasingly vulnerable to attack by Romulans[1], and now, they have decreed, and I wish I believed in God so I could wish to God this was a joke or a satire, that you cannot carry an “offensive weapon” in your own home.
This is so far beyond the pale I cannot believe it is being placidly accepted by the British citizenry, but it is. The people who stood up to the Blitz, who built an Empire, who bravely marched in bright red uniforms so they could get mowed down by Yankee rebels hiding behind walls, have become scared, cowardly, sheep, just waiting to be made into mutton. Or lamb chops. Or whatever it is you make from sheep.
[1]My online spell check suggests “Romanians”. Perhaps it knows something I don’t.