As thugs have been burning, beating, and stealing their way through London, citizens of that disarmed society had little to defend themselves with as the police were completely overwhelmed.
I have the utmost respect for police officers and the work they do, but they cannot be everywhere at once, especially in the case of large-scale rioting, but usually also in the more common case of crimes in progress. After all, even most criminals have the sense no to commit their crimes in plain sight of police, and many crimes just don’t take all that long.
Desperate Brits are resorting to shopping online for improvised weapons. They are buying Amazon.uk out of baseball bats, billy clubs, and folding shovels. Yesterday, billy clubs saw a 41,000%+ increase in sales, until the item was pulled. Shipping times on their most popular baseball bat (up over 36,000%) slipped to 4-6 weeks. Today, a folding shovel is their new Sports and Leisure top seller, with sales up 239,000% in the past 24 hours!
Situations like this show gun control at its worst. As Adam Baldwin tweeted yesterday,
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Presumably, London-type riots would not last long in either Texas, or Arizona.
We in America do have our own small-scale but disturbing riot problems, with flash robberies and roving bands of violent youth quickly forming and brutalizing random strangers in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Chicago, Las Vegas, and other cities, not all of which have severely restricted the availability of firearms.
But I also remember during the Los Angeles riots, when, the police having been overwhelmed, the Korean community banded together to defend their stores and lives against the rioters, even though it was too late for many. Using Korean-language radio, they called for security volunteers. Armed with what in some cases would a few years later be banned as “assault weapons,” stores and lives were likely spared, mostly without having to actually fire a shot. Here’s some vintage local news footage I’ve tracked down, and a picture that says it all.
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There is a reason the right to keep and bear arms was included in the Constitution. I am very close to exercising my “open carry” rights in the state where I live.
I will not be a victim of this senseless violence…
[…] . . is a vulnerable populace. Desperate Brits are resorting to shopping online for improvised weapons. They are buying Amazon.uk […]
Bwahahaha… 30 years of progressive liberalism
and England is turning into a cesspool…. like that of France. …this is something to take a good look at…
this could happen in the USA if Socialism ever takes hold.
The only cure for England is for them to change their system to capitalism …they really should take a cue…
from Russia… otherwise this will just get worse.
Russia went straight to capitalism …ignored socialism
and was probably traumatized by the era of communism’s utter failure. Russia may have economic troubles presently and they may be slightly weaker at this moment.
but in 30 or 40 yrs they will be one of the most powerful countries in the world rivaling even China & around then… they will probably want to reclaim their former glory of mother russia.
….all thanks to Capitalism….. you know, the Russians should thank the USA…. but, I doubt they ever will.
I wonder what they do with people who preach communism in that country…. I bet the mere mention of that word brings back painful memories for most Russians.
Don’t mess with the Sikhs
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/10/article-2024358-0D5EFEA800000578-806_964x632.jpg
London, yesterday. That guy in the center looks like he plans to chop a little wood.
This is what you get when self-defense is assuming the fetal position. Might work on Grizzly bears occasionally … but Grizzlies are noble creatures.
Besides being a polite society, an armed society is quite often an unharmed society. Strange, what? Must merely be an odd coincidence. Certainly nothing to be expected about that, eh?
More and more of my Brit friends will admit they wish they could arm themselves in their homes, but of course they can’t. Any person breaking into one’s home must be protected by the homeowner against violence, else the resident will be charged – and very likely sentenced to at least a couple of years. Madness.
“Presumably, London-type riots would not last long in either Texas, or Arizona.”
Adam Baldwin can say it again and again.
Right after Hurricane Ike passed over Houston, there was a picture taken of a huge neighborhood group here in this area, and then posted on the Lone Star Report (now defunct). They all posed before one big, painted-on-wood sign, that said it all: “YOU LOOT, WE SHOOT!”
Needless to say, there were no riots or looting reported anywhere here.
If only Londoners had that privilege…
(Didn’t Britain ban handguns way back in 1992 or ’93 after a huge school massacre? Correct me if I’m wrong.)
As an ex-British citizen I thought that guns were banned wholesale. It turns out I was wrong. The sale and use fo handguns has regulated steadily and increasingly since 1903. After the Hungerford Massacre in 1987 larger firearms were banned altogether.
In 1997, following yet another massacre, the Dunblane massacre, all guns have been more or less legislated out of existence, to the extent that the Olympics shooting team were not allowed to train in Britain! (Special permits have now been granted).
Love the picture. The rioters were wise to stay away from Korean owned stores. Yeah, the word went out on Korean-language radio. But who responded? Los Angeles has the largest chapter of the Korean Marine Association outside Korea. Most of those on duty were retired ROK Marines. OUR Marines think highly of the ROK Marines.
Subotai Bahadur
Linked: ‘VIDEO Flashback: Armed Korean Grocers Defend Property During 1992 Los Angeles Riots’.
Remember Thermopylae!