Phone Thieves On Bicycles Have Stabbed 4 People In Central London Who Attempted To Stop Them.

[sandyRoe]

This seems to have happened in a prosperous area of the city. Is nowhere there safe?
Sorry, I can't do links.

[fender62]

i wonder if citizens had legal handguns, registered and owner vetted etc, and say one was in that crowd, and took out the stabbers what would have happened to the shooter.

[jno]

ask on an American website?

[sandyRoe]

All the good guys with guns in America don't seem to have been able to stop one single mass shooting.

[davebro]

//i wonder if citizens had legal handguns, registered and owner vetted etc, and say one was in that crowd, and took out the stabbers what would have happened to the shooter.//

Currently in the UK he/she would probably be hung drawn and quartered (or whatever the equivalent soft punishment is) for being a hero!

[FatticusInch]

fender62
//i wonder if citizens had legal handguns, registered and owner vetted etc, and say one was in that crowd, and took out the stabbers what would have happened to the shooter.//

Probably killed in a gun battle with the thieves?
Don’t watch too many US TV series, hitting someone with a pistol even from 10 metres is more difficult than it looks, even more so in the midst of a fracas I’d wager?

[davebro]

//hitting someone with a pistol even from 10 metres is more difficult than it looks//

Yeah - gotta use an Ouzi to be sure!

[sandyRoe]

And don't worry about the collateral damage?

[FatticusInch]

davebro
//hitting someone with a pistol even from 10 metres is more difficult than it looks//

/Yeah - gotta use an Ouzi to be sure!/

Or even an Uzi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi

You’d be better with a Heckler & Koch MP5a3.

[jno]

ah, I'd go for a little Kalashnikov myself

https://136793.smushcdn.com/2148828/wp-content/uploads/brizy/imgs/group-shot-1-1344x705x0x0x1344x705x1610598705.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1

[Spicerack]

Question Author //All the good guys with guns in America don't seem to have been able to stop one single mass shooting//

Wrong.

[davebro]

Yeah - AK47 & a Glock sidearm. Wish we had USA laws!

[sandyRoe]

Spice rack,
Where and when?

[Spicerack]

Here's quite a famous one. Keep watching, there's some stats that might interest you.

[Spicerack]

American lefties, believe it or not, wanted the 'hero' to be prosecuted for carrying a gun in the mall. (you couldn't make it up, as they say)

[sandyRoe]

Sometimes it doesn't turn out for the best.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/28/colorado-gunman-police-officer-killed

[davebro]

oh well - *** happens!

[Spicerack]

Anytime, Sandy. (thumb up emoji)

[FatticusInch]

Spicerack
//All the good guys with guns in America don't seem to have been able to stop one single mass shooting//

/Wrong./

Did you miss the news in Thailand today?

[Spicerack]

I did see it, MrF. I can't see how it has any bearing on my reply to Sandy.
If you can, you'll have to be a little more specific and I'll do my best to address it.