And for even more UK stupidity, brits seem to be calling for Amazon to not ship the bats. This is the mind of a britard - better to completely eliminate any means of self defense because then that would give attackers something to attack with! But what if the attacker is attacking, rioting, looting anyway? "Then the government should do something to make us safe!" Yeah, how's that working out for ya now?
Take your pacifier and lay back down. You keep squirming like that and you are going to get hurt by the machinery of big government that is rolling all around you. We are doing this for your own good!
I don't agree with you often Spidey, but you are right this time. This is class war, the have-nots have so little that it is worth the risk to hurt the haves and maybe grab a little of what they have for themselves. This sort of thing is just going to continue to get worse.
Oh, I imagine that they will calm this outbreak of anarchy in another day or two by applying enough force that the disaffected become afraid of the machine again. But it will just build up again, and next time it will take even more force to calm them back down.
We are heading to another major change in the world. The people are feeling the weight of the chains of corporate oppression, and like the chains of monarchy before them, they are starting to chaff. Everything is happening faster now, soon we will have another round of world revolutions.