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« Memories of handloading | Main | More Media bias »

More on Britain

Posted by David Hardy · 9 April 2006 12:16 PM

I've posted below on how the British government (1) makes it all but impossible for its subjects to defend themselves and (2) declines to defend them, having recently adopted a policy of issuing warnings for burglary, assault, etc..

Don Kates alerted me to this reprint of a Times article, discussing how their police react to criminal gun assaults. Apparently the standard procedure is to stay away from the scene for hours, because after all an armed criminal might be dangerous. The first case cited involved police staying away from a shooting scene for an hour despite telephone calls from it saying the gunman had left. In the meantime, two women bled to death. The culture has become one of extreme caution, driven by events such as a workplace health and safety citation of a Police Commissioner ... after a constable suffered a fatal fall while pursuing a criminal across a rooftop.

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The Mechanic | April 10, 2006 6:14 PM | Reply

Britain symbolizes a saying I saw that goes something like: If you can't be a good example no matter how much you screwed up, your life can serve as a horrible warning to others: "Don't do like this"

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