{"id":3610,"date":"2011-08-11T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/11\/britain-r-i-p-part-five\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T16:37:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T23:37:02","slug":"britain-r-i-p-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/11\/britain-r-i-p-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain R.I.P.? Part five"},"content":{"rendered":"

The previous post in this series is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The nation that refuses to allow people the means to defend themselves is also the nation that refuses to defend itself<\/a>, it seems.<\/p>\n

During the Los Angeles riots, many shopkeepers armed themselves and defended their property<\/a>, often with great effect<\/a>, in the sense that the rioters simply went to destroy and loot stores where the shopkeepers didn’t shoot at them.\u00a0 Reports widely circulated at the time repeatedly revealed police decisons NOT to defend property and people for fear of “escalation.”\u00a0 They literally abandoned the residents of many neighborhoods to their own devices.<\/p>\n

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One Korean businessman’s report:<\/p>\n

Jong Min Kang, president of the Korean American Business Association, was president of Korean Young Adult Team of L.A., when the riots erupted.<\/p>\n

“THERE was a lot of activity to protect Korean businesses, especially in Koreatown. A lot of young Korean people had weapons. There was every kind of weapon, AK-47s and Uzis.<\/p>\n

“I have two businesses, one downtown, which is general wholesale merchandise, and another in South Central, a discount retail shop. My store in South Central is in a strip mall and there were more than 100 merchants there and more than 20 security guards to protect the Korean stores. So (the rioters) couldn’t come in. Nothing happened to those stores but a lot of other stores were burned. It was a terrible situation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Britain’s experience shows what happens when a disarmed populace is confronted with amoral looters and thugs. On the other hand, far from increasing the chaos, the presence of firearms is wonderfully clarifying. People who are determined to protect themselves, their loved ones and their property do not make good victims.\u00a0 Even ARMED thugs simply choose to go elsewhere (the LA riots experience), let alone cretins whose primary weapons are rocks and bats.\u00a0 The criminals are not brave.\u00a0 They are looking for easy victims at low risk to themselves.<\/p>\n

Britain may be abdicating as a nation.\u00a0 I hope not.\u00a0 But the signs are all there of an aging society that can’t rouse itself to take necessary action to defend itself, a society that just seems not to care if it survives or not.\u00a0 On the other hand, there are many elements of current British society which, even if they are not directly behind the unrest (an open question, in my judgment), will surely be happy to take advantage of it to push their own agenda for Britain.<\/p>\n

The next post in this series is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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