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« Castle doctrine proposed in Minnesota | Main | An old joke »

A nation of sheep?

Posted by David Hardy · 1 February 2007 12:05 PM

Gates of Vienna has a discussion of a British event. It's in response to a Briton's statement that they don't want a gun culture, and the response is -- we don't want a culture of sheep.

The event in question involved a burglary of a doctor's house in Britain, and theft of three computers with priceless data. Police wouldn't even send an officer out, told him there was little chance of recovering anything. So he put up signs offering a reward for return, no questions asked. Police then had time enough -- to threaten to arrest him, because there is a law against offering rewards for return, with no questions asked!

[Via The Smallest Minority].

· non-US

4 Comments | Leave a comment

Windy Wilson | February 1, 2007 12:36 PM | Reply

I guess they never have gun buybacks in the UK, as those have always been "no questions asked".

Snark/"United Kingdom, its where Great Britain used to be."/Snark off

KCSteve | February 1, 2007 2:08 PM | Reply

From what I can tell it's not the fault of the front-line police that they've been mandated to only go after the already law-abiding, but it's a sad, sad thing.

Ken | February 1, 2007 2:22 PM | Reply

From what I can tell it's not the fault of the front-line police that they've been mandated to only go after the already law-abiding, but it's a sad, sad thing.

No, it's not their fault; they're only following orders. Funny how one's mind can play tricks. I could have sworn that we'd won that one at least. At least there are so few of that generation still with us to see what at waste it all was.

KCSteve | February 2, 2007 12:29 PM | Reply

Ken

Check out The Policeman's Blog for a look at things from street level.

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