Is it time to arm ourselves ?
Is it time to arm ourselves ?
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ZR1cliff

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17,999 posts

278 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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Saw some more assaults tonight, one was on the way home from work. Without going in to detail it was basically three blokes attacking one bloke on his own on a higher pavement level under a dark bridge. Further up the road I saw a copper in a panda car and informed him of what was happening. He looked a bit worried about getting out of his car and said there were already cops around the front of the station, to which I replied " this ones further up the road ". He reluctantly drove off in that direction.

It got me thinking about what I saw - was this between mates, or, was it a random attack ? Let's face it, an attack of 3 on to 1 and most people won't stand a chance unarmed, plus the authorites are doing very little to deter such crime, so, is it time to carry 'something' incase of a similar attack ?

My head is saying No, but lately my instincts are starting to say Yes, I'm afraid frown

Do we risk a possible attack or do we risk being locked up ourselves, what do you think ?

Edited by ZR1cliff on Sunday 7th December 03:59

Fittster

20,120 posts

242 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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Armed to the teeth. An armed population keeps the state on it's toes!

Bring on the revolution! shoot

Edward9000

168 posts

214 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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tank
Time for a bloody coup? shoot

speedy_thrills

7,931 posts

272 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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Pistol, silencer and hollowpoints?

If only there was some sort of arrangement we could come to where we could like give some of our hard earned money to an organisation that would hire people to offer protection to us and try to investigate crimes to apprehend the criminals so they could be punished/rehabilitated? scratchchin Sorry, I've obviously had a few too many drinks as that idea would never work nuts.

AJI

5,180 posts

246 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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speedy_thrills said:
Pistol, silencer and hollowpoints?

If only there was some sort of arrangement we could come to where we could like give some of our hard earned money to an organisation that would hire people to offer protection to us and try to investigate crimes to apprehend the criminals so they could be punished/rehabilitated? scratchchin Sorry, I've obviously had a few too many drinks as that idea would never work nuts.
:-)

I see what you are getting at........... but I think the focus should be on the pricks who give out the laughable joke sentencing in the courts.
And the some of the very lienient(sp?) maximum sentences available.

And then there are the dumb lawyers who push for lesser pleas in order to gain another 'win' on their bed post.

The whole system needs to be reformed by a government with an ounce of sensibility.

s3fella

10,524 posts

216 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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i agree. why doesnt Brown get the construction companies that are twiddling their thumbs to build 20 new Prisons in UK, then stick the vermin away and leave the what is left of this shell of a country of ours to decent folk!

AUDIHenry

2,201 posts

216 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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It saddens me to hear what is happening in Britain. frown

turbobloke

117,173 posts

289 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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s3fella said:
i agree. why doesnt Brown get the construction companies that are twiddling their thumbs to build 20 new Prisons in UK, then stick the vermin away and leave the what is left of this shell of a country of ours to decent folk!
Labour votes would be lost, thugs and vermin are merely victims of society after all, and it's all due to hardworking taxpayers owning things that forces scum to break the law rolleyes

Captain Cadillac

2,974 posts

216 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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I wouldn't worry too much, they have made handguns illegal in Britain, so this way the criminals will not use them as possessing one is against the law. That's Murder, Bank Robberies, etc all solved then.

chris watton

22,547 posts

289 months

Sunday 7th December 2008
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Perhaps the film Doomsday wasn't as crap and far fetched as first thought....