Carjackers strike in Birmingham

[RWD cossie wil]

Boshly said:

I think the point being made by the key chuckers is not to necessarily fight back individually but if as a society we stood up more for ourselves, collectively if and when necessary these scum bags would not think they could rule our streets as easily as they do.

As has been said if all the good and decent people reacted collectively we can get a better reaction. Fragment us, with fear in these cases, and their pickings become richer. If we all sat and worried about the "screwdriver through the heart" every time someone confronted us and bullied us into giving up what isn't theirs we are on a slippery slope. And whilst we turn a blind eye because it isn't 'us' and walk on and pretend it isn't happening we are sliding down that slope.

I am not powerfully built and I've no idea how I would actually react (flight more likely than fght) but I really hope I could be part of a group that begin to stand up somewhat to these scum. We need to be a society again and not 'I'm alright jack' individuals.

What's needed is proper sentencing of criminals, a mandatory life sentence for theft with violence should cut a large amount of this out as it's just not worth it for the relatively small financial gain vs life sentence...

[Boshly]

RWD cossie wil said:

What's needed is proper sentencing of criminals, a mandatory life sentence for theft with violence should cut a large amount of this out as it's just not worth it for the relatively small financial gain vs life sentence...

That would be one way, but in our current shape society that isn't going to happen. I've lived in countries where a mugger/rapist/burglar would get a good kicking by the people who caught him and sentences are suitably harsh and it does work as a deterrent.

However there are other aspects to those societies that we wish to place ourselves above, understandably and correctly, which impact on this.

It's not black and white and I actually think the solution is one of many simultaneous approaches; harsher sentencing, better policing and standing together as a community against these scum are part of them.

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Willy Nilly said:

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Willy Nilly said:

I wonder if these people ever get dealt with Duncan Ferguson style?

I recall a video being posted on here years ago of some thugs trying to car jack an Astra VXR. A big black guy gets out of the passenger seat and knocks them all out.

Taken purely on face value, that warms the cockles of my heart.

Turns out my memory is failing and it wasn't a video but a post.

http://www.vxronline.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?38...