Mugging in Britain with a gun?

[tyme]

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49282165,00.htm

Just a week ago, Gamespot journalist Guy Cocker, who works in the same building as Crave, was mugged ten minutes away from the CNET offices here in central London. His assailants held what felt like a semi-automatic weapon to the back of Cocker's head and told him, "we're taking all your stuff". They then took his Motorola L6 Slvr (iTunes compatible).

Cocker told us, "I chased them -- two of them threw me against a wall and took everything. It's lucky I didn't have my usual stash of gadgets on me -- my iPod, my Archos AV500 or my laptop. Mugging in London is out of control. I had my Motorola L6 grabbed right out of my hand".

Aside from this Guy Coker fellow being a total idiot, chasing armed attackers, who'd have thought that in a country with such utopian weapon control laws, muggings would be "out of control" in its capital?

 

[Love&Hate12]

Britain is so drowned in democratic blue socialism that it fails to take care of criminal punishment properly. It is all about reform rather than proper handling, child molesters get a year in jail and murderers get 15.

Petty things get even less, and they have a strict "humanitarian" policy on all of it even with criminals who void themselves in my opinion of the benefit of those laws with their actions.

I won't even mention the lack of self defense....

My British friends complain to me constantly about all of this and I just tell them to come on over here if they can, and honestly several are thinking about it.