Onlookers watched in horror? Just watched?
Not all of them. This article is excerpted. Please read the rest of the story at the link, unless the Daily Mail allows full reposting. The dogs attacked multiple people, including other children.
no knives or guns, what could they do?
No guns in UK and they are about to ban knives
When your disarmed that's all you can do until the government decides to show up.
Onlookers watched in horror? Just watched?
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I’ve seen that before in pit bull attacks - the violence is so extreme that some parents report that they couldn’t make themselves reach into the center of the mayhem for their kid. One father hated himself later when he couldn’t make himself reach into the area (even with a stick) where 3 pit bulls were slashing his son. It was bizarre - when he arrived on scene having been told his son was being attacked by 3 pits, he said that the victim on the ground being attacked did not have his sons shoes or clothing (all he could see, he said) so it must not be his son and so he left “urgently” to go “find” his son. Later he admitted he KNEW it was his son. It must be shock then? Too horrible for a parent to cope with? I don’t know. With pits, I’ve read accounts where “it looked like a war zone” etc. - more gore than people can understand. Watch a pit rip strips of flesh off a human - sometimes they are seen to eat it. One kid was walking along the outside of a gated property. The pit bulls reached under the gate and pulled him under, disemboweled him as if he were prey/food. The judge and jurors were devastated watching that.
No right to self defense in the U.K.
“Onlookers watched in horror ...”
Sure , that’s all you can do without risking getting arrested for violating some filthy British law.
I was about to post the same thing...no one jumped in to even try and stop it. He mite bite me, but I guarantee you I’d be putting a beating on that dog. as well as the owner.