Posted on 11/03/2025 10:09:16 AM PST by Freeleesy
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after police van was set on fire.
Police pictured in Leeds city centre just after 3pm following an arson attack on a police van.
A police van was set on fire in Leeds city centre this afternoon.
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Want to stop it? Canester rounds.
Gotta be careful there. It’s way more likely that the British government would fire canister rounds at these “troublemakers” instead.
Hey dummies prepare to bend over and convert to islam
The UK was lost the moment they gave up all rights to self-defense. From what I can tell, this started in the 1980s. Perhaps a UK Freeper can clarify this.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories, both Holmes and Watson sometimes carried revolvers. Since Arthur Conan Doyle included that in his stories, it must have been common in the UK at one time.
Anyway, I admire the folks in the picture for getting out and waving the flag. But their options to affect change are very limited.
Gun ownership was curtailed after a couple of mass-shootings here in the UK: at Hungerford in the 1980s and Dunblane in the 1990s. The loonies always spoil it for the rest of us.
Carrying revolvers was never common. Although there was once no restriction on persons of good standing keeping weapons at home, nor country people for hunting/wildfowling, no one really felt the need. Even criminals usually avoided them, because to use one almost inevitably ended with a trip to the gallows.
On the very rare occasions when they were required, I think people brought them out from their home - such as the Tottenham Outrage of 1909, when two armed anarchists went on the rampage.
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