Our nation is a nation of immigrants, sure, but the bulk of our early culture was essentially English culture transported to the colonies, then the new nation. After all, that is the nation of our roots, for the most part.
But, in the course of the American Revolution 250 years ago, we started moving in a very, very different direction. Now, we may share the same language, more or less, but the similarities mostly end there.
Want proof of that?
A political party named Restore Britain, which is considered far-right by British standards, has a proposal that has a lot of folks on that side of the pond freaking out.
They want to legalize pepper spray. among other things.
An Englishman’s home is his castle, so I am particularly delighted to launch Restore Britain’s newest policy paper – ‘Retaking the English Castle’.
Legalising pepper spray, implementing comprehensive legal protection for homeowners defending themselves from intruders, repealing… pic.twitter.com/iU7aik3VH0
— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) February 25, 2026
The section above contains the relevant self-defense portions of the proposal by Lowe’s party, though some of the other things are simply removing stupid laws, too.
But I’m not going to lie, I’m really hung up on the whole legalizing pepper spray thing.
In part, it’s because people are freaking out. They’re worried about what would happen if bad guys used pepper spray to commit crimes.
Now, keep in mind that in the UK, knives are deployed all the time by criminals, and you can’t really ban them because they’re essential household items, so it’s not like criminals really need pepper spray. As it stands, people are stabbed and raped all the time in the UK, so I fail to see how pepper spray being legal would make anything worse.
Besides which, it’s freaking pepper spray.
I understand that the British conquered the world looking for spices, only to decide they didn’t like any of them, but pepper spray is still basically someone taking a seasoning and aerosolizing it. It’s a freaking condiment that’s handy for self-defense.
Yeah, it’s also distilled down to some degree to be more effective, but I live in the South, where people buy hot sauces with names like “Rectal Prolapser” for their food. Pepper spray isn’t really that scary to them.
I, on the other hand, come from a weak line of people when it comes to spices. Then again, most of my ancestry is British, so…
I’m seriously scratching my head at how in the hell the British maintained the most globe-spanning empire in history when they’re so pathetically weak that their bowels loosen over legalizing pepper spray.
This is the single tamest suggestion imaginable, and some are absolutely losing their minds over it.
These people need more than Jesus. They need a Second Amendment. They need to rekindle the warrior ethos that turned a tiny island into the world’s first superpower. They need to be able to protect themselves and their families, and if a glorified seasoning is the first step on that path, then so be it.
But folks need to stop getting their knickers in a twist because someone bad might misuse something when all the laws already there haven’t stop those bad people from doing things.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights. They want to make the UK’s reality ours.
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