On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Tim May wrote:
WHY AREN'T THE OWNERS OF THESE PROPERTIES DEFENDING THEIR PROPERTY?
Why are't shop owners spraying the looters with automatic weapons fire?
Because, of course, Europeans are disarmed.
Not all of us. In fact, if you look at the statistics, e.g. we Finnish people are actually quite *well* armed. Just not with handguns, but hunting rifles. If something like that were to happen here, there would be no shortage of firepower. However, over here the fact that they are torching your property isn't an excuse to shoot -- if you manage to kill one, it's murder, and probably not even in mitigating circumstances. The same applies doublefold to defending yourself against police brutality and co. People usually don't think about using firearms to defend themselves, even if they happen to own some. They know they'll get nailed for it, no matter how righteous the shooting might seem to be. Dunno... Seeing what went down in Gothenburg, and the shit that's going on now in Genoa, I too am beginning to think there is something very wrong with all this...
The property-destroying "anarchists" are giving anarchy a bad name.
Agreed. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy@iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front