On top of that, I don't know how you think you are meant to control riots if the first thing that you want the police to do is go out and shoot people? Believe me our police force (and to an extent our Army) knows how to deal with Civil disorder. If the police had gone out and just shot the rioters on that first night, there would have been a hell of a lot more rioting.Gizmo1990 said:I am not touching the Gun thing with a 100 mile pole I was just reading this thread becuase I was bored but I have to ask. Are you actually saying that the riots would have been better handeled by shoting everybody? Really?Tsaba said:OP, just to help you out, since all these people from foreign countries like to post about the UK and lack of gun violence... all you need to do is look at the England riots and how the police did nothing (since they had no firearms) and had to wait for backup to confront looters, who by that time where done and ran away to coordinate another attack via social media.spartan231490 said:snip
EDIT: it's a very interesting read and look into a country that has to handle modern situations with lack of firearms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots
EDIT: For what it is worth the above statment was not me. One of my ARSEHOLE friends was using my laptop, saw your post and desided to use my account to troll you. I do not agree with you but I do realise you are not saying that shoting the rioters would have made things better.
EDIT: Also why do some pro-gun people think they need to fear their government to the point where they need firearms to "deter" the government? That to me says that they don't have any faith in democracy