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On the England Riots - The Minuteman
The riots in England I find a wonderful example of what happens when you disable the law abiding from protecting themselves and their property. This ultimately results in people realizing that it is safer and more profitable to steal, rob, commit violence, and be generally disruptive to society than it is to be productive. Evidently I am by no means the only one with this idea and thankfully one of them is in England. ‘The problem,’ said Bill Pitt, the former head of Manchester’s Nuisance Strategy Unit, ‘is that the law appears to be there to protect the rights of the perpetrator, and does not support the victim.’ Police regularly arrest householders who are deemed to have taken ‘disproportionate’ action to protect themselves and their property from burglars or intruders. The message goes out that criminals have little to fear from ‘the feds’. This is by no means new, the gun culture has been screaming that is one of the major problems with Britain for a long time. Just look at the problem with dealing with someone squatting on your property in Britain. What is most interesting though is some of the root cause analysis into the riots. Continue reading →
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