标题: Weapon Laws in UK [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 8-16-2011 12:02 标题: Weapon Laws in UK 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Joyce Lee Malcolm, The Soft-on-Crime Roots of British Disorder; In a civilized society people would be allowed to defend themselves with guns, not baseball bats. Wall Street Journal, Aug 16, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576502613435380574.html
(In the midst of london riots, there was among English people "a 5,000% increase in purchases of baseball bats from Amazon." "Handguns? Parliament banned their possession in 1997." One Brit "brought [police] a shotgun he found in his garden. For doing this personally--instead of asking the police to retrieve it--he received a five-year sentence" which was suspended finally after a public outcry. "Knives? It's illegal for anyone under age 18 to buy one, and using a knife for self-defense is unlawful.")