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Vlado asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 10 years ago

UK riots and UK gunlaws?

In the light of the current situation in several cities, where flats, shops, cars are burned. People are robbed in broad daylight and police is impotent, do you still believe that the absolute ban on guns, knives, batons and tear gas is still worth it?

There is a confirmed dead man: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024130/UK... (how can he be shot in a country where the parliament has to vote for an law exception for sport shooting at the Olympics???),

hundreds of flats, shops, livings and cars are burned to ashes,

people are being robed in broad daylight http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/86904...

forced to strip: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024001/UK...

Was the disarmament and giving up your freedom and right to selfdefense worth it?

They promised you safety for excenge of your rights that even the old depsotic kings didnt dare to encroach upon. They promised you safety for your privacy and put hundreds, thousend CCTV cameras in the cities. Are you safe now? And did you feel safe on the street in the night for the last years? I was to London...the night london scared the ...... out of me.

To put it simple:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqi8m4CEEY

Would you allow them to do it again?

Update:

1) I am from slovakia, a small country in the east of EU.

2) Actually i dont care for the gun laws of UK in the least. I decided some time ago that The Fourt Reich is not a place i want to go to. But its the politicos of UK who want to impose their gunlaws upon my country.

3) Right now, the police in London does nothing (first hand messeges) just retreats and retreats (when did you start to hire French fro your police) - sorry, stupid joke. We shall see what we shall se when the police starts to counteract. The last i knew just in london police pickups 400 guns a year. Normaly, the rate is 1% of illeagel guns per year which means that just in london there should be 40 000 illegal guns..... i hope i am wrong, but...

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  • 10 years ago
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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Thank God that we had English founding fathers create our constitution because they knew first hand what it meant not to be able to defend ones country, home, and person....I can guarantee that nothing like this will happen in the USA (unless its a liberal city with gun laws and high crime). The store and home owners would be able to defend there person and there property and the felons and street thugs would think twice about looting and/or breaking into the home/business.

    The felons and thugs in London are doing whatever the hell they want. Its a joke!!! Might as well be a third world nation over there right now.

    Any lawful citizen with a firearm is the best way to prevent crime. A lawful citizen is not a criminal, but now the criminals have free reign and the lawful citizen can do nothing. It was just a matter of time until something like this occurred.

  • 10 years ago

    Wow, there are a lot of sheep out there. First off, we will never know how things would have turned out, if the good citizens of the UK were not stripped of their self-defense rights. For a person to believe that there would be hundreds, possibly thousands, of more deaths, given guns were legal requires a belief that most people are evil, because this assumes that people want to kill innocent people. Truth is, the common person doesn't have a problem burning down buildings and vandalizing random things when others are doing it, but I won't believe for a second the average person would choose to kill just because they have a gun.

    Look at the Los Angeles (Rodney King ) riots of CA, U.S. There were around 60 deaths. Yes, this is more than 5, but not much more in comparison. Keep in mind we are the people with the constitution guaranteeing us the right to bear arms, and massive deaths didn't result. Also consider that a portion of these deaths resulted in law abiding citizens protecting their life and/or property. Maybe less property damage would have resulted if law abiding citizens in the UK had arms to protect themselves.

    The bottom line is this: innocent people die every single day for all kinds of reasons. No matter what laws exist, people will die. I will not be a defenseless coward who gives up my firearms. When things are all said in done, you are the only sure bet for protection for yourself and for your family. When seconds matter, the police are minutes away, and the cameras, laws, and anti-freedom doctrines are defenseless to help you and your loved ones. Ask the Jews how they feel about having no firearms to protect themselves and their family. They were forcibly removed from their homes, caged like animals, and exterminated by evil military, policeman, and politicians of their own government. I guarantee you they wish they didn't give up their firearms. Riots will continue to happen all over the world as things get worse, you better rely on yourself for protection, or get ready to be a slave.

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  • 10 years ago

    In addition to all the above comments which I wholeheartedly agree with, what's this nonsense you say about 'Was the disarmament and giving up your freedom and right to selfdefense worth it?' Giving up freedom? What the hell are you talking about? What on earth does freedom have to do with not having a gun? And the right to self defence? I can still depend myself with other tools, I don't need nor want a gun to do that.

    Only an American makes statements such as that - they're so blinded by this 'constitutional right to bear arms' that is considered backward and uncivilised by most other countries.

    Additional - so what has the polices' rubbish tactics got to do with the gun laws? You're still making no sense

  • 10 years ago

    I've personally known lots of Brits and I've worked for two international companies doing a lot of business in G.B. Know that there are tens of thousands of unregistered shotguns in London alone. Now it is true that those owning these firearms only posses two or three boxes of shells -- quite unfortunate actually. I wish I could send over a couple dozen boxes. During WWII, we Yanks sent a bunch of our personal long-arms to England, because the German occupation of England was a virtual certainty. However, men like my dad and my uncle went over there and killed the hell out of the Germans, putting an end to the threat of England being raped into submission. These rioting mobs need to be shot into with bird-shot and if that doesn't do the trick, then buckshot. These riots could be shut down in hours. If you shoot into a mob, shoot the street just a few feet in front of the herd. Hitting the street with the pattern causes it to spray really wide -- people's legs get cut-up, but they are not killed.

  • 10 years ago

    This would be a million times worse if guns were easily available enough that these people could get their hands on them.

    Instead the rioters looters have to resort to throwing bricks and rocks, which thankfully, the police are more equipped to handle.

    Look at the numbers of people injured and killed despite the mass disorder. They're miniscule compared to what they could be if we had gun battles raging.

  • 10 years ago

    People in the UK have a right to self determination, including the right render individuals defenseless against criminals who by definition have less respect for the law than they do. To do so is against common sense and human nature. How's that working for you?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The problem with your question is that if we legalised guns, the rioters would have guns as well. So that would turn this from a riot into a war. Only more innocent people would be killed, so guns are not needed.

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