is not gonna get loads of kids up of the streets and learning useful life skills like first aid, discipline and getting along together
No, but then that is not its purpose. I am not sure you can make a law that insures that people "learn useful skill, be disciplined and get along" and still call yourself a free society. Those are emergent virtues from a society that is already law abiding and disciplined.
Brits can do that with cricket bats and hockey sticks, as we have already shown
That is fine if you are young, and fit and willing to hit hard. Those who can't do that have to wait for the police, and often wait in vain. Also, didn't the riot police act just the same way toward those groups banding together to protect there communities as it did toward the hooligans? I had read that in Manchester the police dispersed a neighborhood protection group armed as you describe.
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Date: 12/8/11 00:44 (UTC)No, but then that is not its purpose. I am not sure you can make a law that insures that people "learn useful skill, be disciplined and get along" and still call yourself a free society. Those are emergent virtues from a society that is already law abiding and disciplined.
Brits can do that with cricket bats and hockey sticks, as we have already shown
That is fine if you are young, and fit and willing to hit hard. Those who can't do that have to wait for the police, and often wait in vain. Also, didn't the riot police act just the same way toward those groups banding together to protect there communities as it did toward the hooligans? I had read that in Manchester the police dispersed a neighborhood protection group armed as you describe.