Here in the UK, we have a program called Panorama. I'm not sure quite what it is comparable to in the United States, but in general panorama seeks to educate and inform the public on issues that we might not be aware of, such as drug use, trafficking rings and other scandals.

Tonight, panorama released an episode called "Lethal Weapon". And although I have respect for the program, tonight's episode was not a panorama episode, but instead it was one of the worst examples of race baiting, authoritarian garbage I have ever witnessed on television.

The program was focused on an aspect of UK law that allows you to purchase firearms without a firearms license that are deemed to have an obsolete calibre and are made before 1890, and the example they used was the Smith & Wesson revolver chambered in .44 Russian. This law is in place to enable collectors and genuine enthusiasts to collect antique firearms.

However, the program focused on one particular person who actually was arrested not too far away from where I used to live. He had been flying out to the United States, purchasing antique weapons and supplying them to criminals who would handload the ammunition for use in crime. Whilst I think this practice is inherently wrong, the program spanned the narrative of "middle-aged white man purchases antique weaponry that is lethal to kill black men!". This has been an issue with aspects of the BBC for many years, The only victims being represented in the program were black men.

Further more, the justification given by the National Ballistic Intelligence Service for banning specific weapons (a la NFA) and calibres that are deemed obsolete (such as the .44 Russian) is in the name of "public safety".

This narrative has been spun for so many years ever since the early 1900s by the British government to justify gun control that is Draconian and unfair. However, it shows that the UK government does not trust its own civilians with these antique pieces of weaponry, and it will only harm the private collectors who have no altruist motives other than to preserve these pieces of history, it will hurt the firearms industry that sells these weapons legally at gun shows, and only benefits the criminals who now have more laws to break.

I fear for my country's future. More has happened in the past several years that I have only just realised now. My government has told me that I cannot carry a knife in public because apparently "you have no good reason to carry a knife". My government has told me that I cannot use a firearm for self defence of my own home and family, and that I will probably be arrested for inflicting grievous bodily harm to my intruder, who will probably get a shorter sentence than I will. My government has told me that I cannot say harsh words about migrants, because that's "Islamophobic" or "offensive". And now, my government is telling me that although I have for 16 years followed the law, acted as a model citizen and done my best to become a respectable member of society, that I cannot even be trusted to purchase a piece of history with my hard earned money to display in my own home when I turn 18.

The United Kingdom is turning in an authoritarian direction and has been for many years. I fear for the future of this country, and tonight's program produced by the BBC only shows us the truth: our media is biased and one-sided, and is only used to create fear to pass more legislation that will be ineffective and laughed at, by criminals and the world.

I can't wait until I leave this country. My government has proven that it does not trust me, collectors and the private citizen with their own lives. I don't want to live in a country like that.

I don't want to live in a country that monitors what porn I watch either, but that's far from the point.