Where Great Britain Used To Be
After riots, sales of baseball bats up 5,000%.
Heard on the news the police were considering use of plastic bullets. You should be using real ones already.
What’s the cause of the riot? I’m guessing lack of incoming fire.
August 9th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
It’s amazing how fast M2 Brownings calm down riots…
August 9th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
I like how they added the bit at the end about the ZUMBA dvd kit going up as well but probably because of other reasons.
August 9th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Gun free zone = target rich environment for the punks…
August 9th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Hey, I see a trend. Crazy Kids use the Social Media to cause Riots to have Riots. Some times they also try to bring down a Gooberment, but I think that’s just someone taking Advantage of the Situation. Happened in the Middle East this year, happening in Britain and Greece and other EuroSocialist Countries, and we are getting Teen Age “Flash Mobs” starting up here. But a Funny thing happens on our side of the ponds. They tend to Stop when a man gets his gun and Steps Up. RE: the Kansas dude earlier.
August 9th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Yes, they scatter like cockroaches when you flip on the lights when real firepower appears along with the fortitude to use it.
August 9th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Basically opportunistic thieves who know the police will not show up.
Baseball bat, my ass. If you cannot get an unlawful firearm, I suggest buying a chainsaw. You may have to special order a 36″ bar and chain there.
August 9th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
I used to be in the UK, London especially, in the late 80′s and early 90′s on business, and the punks (they call them “yobs” too) would get right in your face trying to provoke a reaction. This in a crowded place like Piccadilly Circus in the evening where all kinds of people are moving about going to “theatre”, dinner, or just people-watching. Need their asses kicked is what they need, but I didnt try it, wanting to stay out of trouble, etc, to keep my job. Also not wanting to get cut or whatever they might do. So tolerate that behavior and eventually I guess you get disorder.
August 9th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
This is what comes from paying the Socialist Danegeld when the money finally runs out. This is not Marxism with the “Working class” rioting against the “Upper class.” This is the Parasite Class that doesn’t even work, rioting for more FREE Gubb’mint Stuff. The only ones who CAN do anything about it – the Cops – are told NOT-to. And so the Productive class that pays all the TAX that the Gubbmint collects and gives to the Parasites, gets bullied about again. The Parasites effectively work for the Gubb’mint as Tax-enforcers, and this is a demonstration of their power in the New Socialist Order.
August 9th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
This is a preview of America, when the welfare cheques stop.
August 10th, 2011 at 12:23 am
Timmeehh:
Nope. The parasites will set fire to their own neighborhoods, and then get shot to pieces when they try to attack the rest of us.
The LA riots stayed in South-Central because people in the surrounding neighborhoods blocked streets with their own cars and manned those barricades with rifles.
The UK is disarmed. We are not.
August 10th, 2011 at 12:46 am
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/katharinebirbalsingh/100099830/these-riots-were-about-race-why-ignore-the-fact/
This British writer thinks that the riots are race base flash mobs similar to the ones in the US.
August 10th, 2011 at 12:52 am
According to these pics, it does look mostly race based. Most of the participants shown do not look melanin challenged.
You’d think that with the most cameras per capita, the Brits would have been better able to ID people and handle this. I mean, that is why they said that they had to spy on everyone….for security reasons.
Sounds familiar….
August 10th, 2011 at 12:53 am
According to these pics, it does look mostly race based. Most of the participants shown do not look melanin challenged.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3742163/Do-you-know-a-riot-yob.html
You’d think that with the most cameras per capita, the Brits would have been better able to ID people and handle this. I mean, that is why they said that they had to spy on everyone….for security reasons.
Sounds familiar….
August 10th, 2011 at 1:11 am
They need that guy in the sarong, carrying his Mosin.
August 10th, 2011 at 2:49 am
Napoleon had it down: A whiff of grapeshot. Works every time.
August 10th, 2011 at 3:05 am
Switzerland has the lowest crime rate in the world,because the people are armed, basic military is mandatory for men, and afterwards they are required to keep their weapon at home. A crook will think twice about breaking into houses [shops, stores, offices] knowing this, people who think the world should get rid rid of guns should think again. YouTube link here … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ufkwTM82e4
August 10th, 2011 at 3:06 am
There is a legendary story about a Texas Ranger:
“One of the most enduring phrases associated with the Rangers today is One Riot, One Ranger. It is somewhat apocryphal in that there was never actually a riot; rather, the phrase was coined by Ranger Captain William “Bill” McDonald, who was sent to Dallas in 1896 to prevent the illegal heavyweight prize fight between Pete Maher and Bob Fitzsimmons that had been organized by Dan Stuart, and patronized by the eccentric “Hanging Judge” Roy Bean.[18] According to the story, McDonald’s train was met by the mayor, who asked the single Ranger where the other lawmen were. McDonald is said to have replied: “Hell! Ain’t I enough? There’s only one prize-fight!” “]
— Wikipedia
So maybe we can loan out a Ranger to the British, they seem to need one?
August 10th, 2011 at 3:13 am
two words.
chuck norris.
August 10th, 2011 at 3:17 am
Maybe the British can haul some old Luftwaffe guys out of their rest homes and re-stage the Blitz.
August 10th, 2011 at 3:26 am
I already answered this question for all of you a few days ago: http://tinyurl.com/3h2yg5y
August 10th, 2011 at 4:22 am
to wGraves-
Brits dont need texas rangers. They still have some Gurkhas on the payroll…
August 10th, 2011 at 6:36 am
England without her archers becomes a primitive people.
Just a few stout bowmen able to get clothyard shafts downrange would set the mob to heel… having an arrow go through three or four ‘rioters’ like a skewer would surely send the right message.
Or at least, as has been mentioned, take a page from Napoleon’s book when asked what to do with the mob was ‘Give them a whiff of grapeshot’.
Not even men with shotguns and 00 are available in the great land of the First NRA made by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. How low is the land that once featured ranges at pubs with Queen Victoria opening one such for the Members of Parliament: a land of well armed men who not only had to hold their liquor but be a crack shot while doing so. Victoria would set this right in an instant… of course it would never have gotten this far under her… with the reminder of what happened in the Great Sepoy Mutiny and those who caused it getting shot. Out of cannons.
August 10th, 2011 at 7:29 am
How low is the land that once featured ranges at pubs with Queen Victoria opening one such for the Members of Parliament: a land of well armed men who not only had to hold their liquor but be a crack shot while doing so.
Yep – they hadn’t gotten ’round to outlawing all the stuff which is illegal to-day. Self-reliance is all but illegal nowadays.
Without free choice there is no morality. Live by the nanny state, die by the nanny state.
Oh, and don’t forget to “hug a hoodie”. This mayhem is occurring because the perpetrators aren’t getting enough hugs, of course.
August 10th, 2011 at 7:32 am
You loot, I shoot.
August 10th, 2011 at 8:06 am
In 1900, Galveston, Texas was hit by a huge hurricane and storm surge that killed thousands. In the days following the hurricane, those caught looting and plundering corpses were summarily shot on the spot. Order was quickly restored.
August 10th, 2011 at 8:20 am
+1 Ajacksonian.
Agincourt and Crecy we hardly knew ye.
August 10th, 2011 at 8:29 am
I am absolutely aghast that tear gas and water cannons are still OFF THE TABLE as far as response methods go!! The British government is willing to watch block after block go up in flames and not turn a faucet on to clean the streets, out of worry someone might get the filth washed off and bruise a bit? I think those grannies in their badly fitting stockings will be marching on Parliment with torches next…or SHOULD be.
The best quote was from last evenings World News Tonight. A young woman said, “They’re feral RATS! WHERE are their parents?!”
August 10th, 2011 at 8:48 am
It’s a sad commnetary, Great Britian is no longer great since they’ve devovled into barbarism where the citizens have been rendered defenseless to criminals by the legalized version.
August 10th, 2011 at 8:59 am
Protecting its people is the fundamental justification for governments existence. A government that cannot, or will not, protect its populace has no legitimacy, no right to exist.
August 10th, 2011 at 9:55 am
I lived in the UK 1996 – 2001. My workplace in Nottingham was regularly burgled every 3 months. I volunteered to sleep in the office and catch the thief but the management was appalled. I might be injured or WORSE I might injure the burglar who would sue the company for a fortune. I quickly learned that the UK citizens have been taught to sit still & shut up in the face of crime. Property crime is so common that everyone takes it for granted. In 2000 an old woman on our street was imprisoned for putting broken glass on the top of her garden wall to try and keep out burglars. A confessed burglar was injured by her precaution and complained to the police.
August 10th, 2011 at 9:59 am
“This is a preview of America, when the welfare cheques stop.”
Probably not in Texas or any of the other red States. Compare what happened in NOLA after Katrina in 05 to what happened after the equally destructive Rita or the less destructive Ike in 08. Nothing. I can tell you my neighbors and I sat around cleaning our guns, drinking warm beer, and hoping for the chance to shoot someone.
As for the Blue States, well, paraphrasing Dante’s inscription on Hell, allowing someone to take the consequences of choices is an expression of love.
As a final note, I’m sorry for you, Timmeh…you’re not a man, and haven’t been one for so long you can’t predict how men think. My sympathy is mitigated by the fact that it was an intentional and self-inflicted wound – kind of like when Amy Winehouse died, I was sorry for the people who loved her but know she made a choice to kill herself years ago.
August 10th, 2011 at 10:16 am
Pickwick, your story reminds me of Charleston, SC when Hurricane Hugo made a direct hit in 1989. The Chief of Police was asked about possible looters and he was reported to have replied that since the jails were dammaged and had no power there was nowhere to put anyone arrested for looting, so he told his force to just shoot them on sight. Still not sure if the story was true, but there sure weren’t any looting problems.
August 10th, 2011 at 10:41 am
I’ve been thinking for some time now that if somebody just shot a few of those looters and arsonists… hell, just beat a few heads in… the riots would stop cold. Does that make me a bad person?
August 10th, 2011 at 11:17 am
“Probably not in Texas or any of the other red States. Compare what happened in NOLA after Katrina in 05 to what happened after the equally destructive Rita or the less destructive Ike in 08.”
I should note that in NOLA after Katrina, most of the looting ultimately turned out to have been perpetrated by the police force itself. There was relatively little looting by the public, except in a few cases where they went into shops already broken into by police officers. Also, its worth noting that much of the looting would not have happened had the city not been evacuated, and that many of those that didn’t evacuate – at least the ones that made the news – where heroine and crack addicts, to the extent, that when evacuated to Baton Rouge they had to set up a special ward to deal with the withdrawl symptoms. When the public remains to protect its property, looting is very rare. Looting however by first responders – police, fire fighters, EMT’s, etc. – is actually sadly very common. Looting by police, firefighters, and rescue workers is associated not only with Katrina, but Andrew and even 9/11. We just don’t want to talk about that part of the problem.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:22 am
It seems like in all these socialist, race, urban, anarchist, urban type riots, the televisions and booze are always saved before they burn down the buildings.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:26 am
Those riots are the greatest argument for the 2nd Amendment that I have ever seen.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:38 am
This will never happen in Red States in the United States. How many of these low-life scum would you have to shoot in the head before the others noticed that rioting was “dangersous” for THEM?
August 10th, 2011 at 11:59 am
Markie Marxist sez: “Nice to see right-wingers stocking up on bats; that will help to identify them to our authorities there. We can arrest them for having such weapons, or for worse if they actually harm any of our Marxist/warrior/hero/criminals as they burn down the UK while our authorities stand by and watch. We banned guns and made self-defense with any weapon illegal in the UK to protect our criminals. As you can see by light of the flames, that’s really paying off for us handsomely, isn’t it? It’s a Marxist delight to see capitalism literally on fire! Ha! Ha! Wait until it catches on in the US. The Dow may be down, but communism is up! Maybe I should buy stock in companies that make matches and cigarette lighters? Ha! Ha!”
August 10th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
I hope some people are taking advantage of the general chaos to burn down a few government mandated windmills and break up a couple solar panels.
Kick the government in it’s tender cherished oppression point, and who knows? Maybe the cops will even break out the water hoses.
August 10th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
The brits have the government that they voted for and I doubt that these riots will convince them to vote differently.
I liked the comment about a few stout bowmen. I don’t know how plentiful bows are in England these days but they are not hard to make. A few stout bowmen on the roofs could probably disperse a crowd and protect a neighborhhod pretty effectively. It’s a pity no one seems to have the balls to try it.
August 10th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Governments like criminals prefer unarmed victims.
The entire British nation seems to have attained a victim mentality.
Rioters are victims of the rich
Law abiding are victims of the rioters and criminals.
Police are victims of the politicians spineless politically corret policies.
Government is a victim of the rioters.
To mash together a couple of great movie quotes,
It’s time for the British to nut up or shut up and start busting heads.
August 10th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Bows are easy, but bowmen are hard. A good bowman could put a rifleman to shame in terms of accuracy and rate of fire until pretty recently – at least the Revolutionary War, maybe as late as the Civil War (introduction of cartridge weapons).
Guns replaced bowmen when individual productivity became high enough that having a man work for several hours, and having him taxed enough to buy a gun, was more valuable than having the bowman practice archery for those hours instead of working. Colonialism was possible when industrialized countries could afford better weapons but the colonials could not…and ended when everyone could afford weapons.
August 10th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
I was once a bowman so I know what you are talking about John. Many years ago I used to practice traditional archery, make my own arrows and could shoot with great precision. It is a much more perishable skill than shooting a gun as evidenced by some of my recent attempts to re-take up the sport. I’ve spent more time looking for lost arrows than shooting.
But my comment was meant ironically because based on what I have seen in the news so far brits have done nothing except whine and complain while their homes and businesses burn. I find their complacency in the face of this barbarism heartbreaking.
August 10th, 2011 at 9:38 pm
“It seems like in all these socialist, race, urban, anarchist, urban type riots, the televisions and booze are always saved before they burn down the buildings.”
Well of course they save the tellies and the booze! what do you think they are, savages?
August 10th, 2011 at 10:37 pm
I don’t get it. I thought the govt in the former UK was bad and oppressive. Shouldn’t we be happy people are finally angry about it and not focusing on the idiots taking advantage of the situation?
We’re rooting for their jack booted thugs exactly why?
August 10th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Since they’re looting about the lack of free ice cream, you’re wrong. Again.
August 11th, 2011 at 1:38 am
Just remember that no government can long survive the loss of confidence that it can handle any problem that arises.
August 11th, 2011 at 1:52 am
Steve,
The average Brit has no choice except to sit and take it. If you try to protect yourself, it is quite likely the defender will be arrested, fined and possibly sued.
August 11th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Seeing as this is the first time I posted on the subject, not sure how it is I’m wrong. Again.
And in fact, it’s you who’s wrong. You do realize that what caused the uprising is jackbooted thugs executing an unarmed man and trying to cover it up in a virtual police state?
I thought we were opposed to those sorts of things…but we lose sight of that when there are angry black youths on TV taking advantage of the situation to act like imbeciles.
They’re not rioting over the welfare state, and lest you be wrong…again…get thee to a TV.
August 11th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
I’ve been listening to the rioters on the news. It’s about the lack of free ice cream, mostly.
Now, I’m sure the incident that kicked it off you’re correct about.
August 11th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
There’ll always be people taking advantage of social unrest.
I’m sure the Mexicans in that famous picture from the LA Riots taking the washing machine out of the appliance store in LA probably weren’t all that upset about Rodney King either.
August 11th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
By “executed an unarmed man,” do you mean “shot drug dealer who pulled a gun?”
Just like the LA riots, rioters were just looking for an excuse to loot.