Crossbows are 100% legal here
Really, I’m quite surprised.
A few crossbow snipers on the roofs could really freak out a mob, I would think.
Anyway, thanks for the correction. I hope you’ll pardon me for pointing out that any government that allows crossbows but outlaws scary looking knives is a little weird, IMO.
Although it’s also fair to point out that any equivalent level of rioting in the US would have had dozens if not hundreds of fatalities to date, while that in the UK had had one.