Originally Posted by djplong

I had the 'privilege' of being in the UK when London went up in flames. I was very worried for my stepson's girlfriend who lives in the borough of Enfield - the one the scumbags went to after the riot in Tottenham because there were more upscale shops in Enfield, two boroughs north.

Note that it was a PEACEFUL demonstration in Tottenham (in response to the police shooting and killing an alleged gang member - who shot at the cops and, well, guns are 100% illegal in the UK so....). The scumbags saw this and apparently used Facebook and Twitter to organize a flash mob there and thus, the riots started.

I was lucky enough to get in touch with Traci (who may end up being my stepdaughter-in-law) to make sure she and her kids were ok.

During the course of our travels around Scotland there were a LOT of Brits, Scots and Londoners on holiday who spoke to us envying the way that Americans are allowed to defend themselves.

The riots appear to be a turning point in the opinions of UK citizens. They have had ENOUGH of bending over and 'taking' it while the MPs "mollycoddle" people who don't DO anything like, oh, say, umm, "work". The crap about "getting my taxes back"? Those thugs don't PAY taxes (except for VAT - and that doesn't begin to cover all the benefits they get in public housing and other welfare payments). I noticed one thing we could emulate here. With less than a week passing since the riots started, they had already arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted and SENTENCED some of the offenders! UK PM Cameron said the courts were going to stay open 24/7 to deal with all this.