This is the result of Total Gun Control (only of legitimate gun owners, of course). Blowing some worthless lowlife armed robber away can have a salutary effect on the rest of the neighborhood scum, but there’s not a chance of that happening in Britain. In fact, I don’t think you can even defend yourself with a knife or a bat in your own home or business....what a shame, that the birthplace of individual freedom has so stripped its law-abiding citizens of the fundamental right of self-protection.....
This is the result of Total Gun Control (only of legitimate gun owners, of course). Blowing some worthless lowlife armed robber away can have a salutary effect on the rest of the neighborhood scum, but there’s not a chance of that happening in Britain. In fact, I don’t think you can even defend yourself with a knife or a bat in your own home or business....what a shame, that the birthplace of individual freedom has so stripped its law-abiding citizens of the fundamental right of self-protection.....I don't think this is necessarily true. I think this case is more of a failure of community policing. Something like the Japanese "koban" system would go a long way towards deterring this sort of crime.