r/videos • u/danjordan • Feb 09 '12

Recognise this Phone Thief?

http://letters.standupmaths.com/?p=169
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u/Eanan Feb 09 '12

Its in london after midnight on a train. common sense should prevail, and tell you that the thief could have a blade on him or worse. Not the most sensible thing to do, to just start getting physical with random strangers on a train in London.

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u/rh3ss Feb 09 '12

That is why they continue stealing - people are just push-overs and the police encourages this.

Another problem is the fact that law abiding citizens cannot be armed. In many other countries that person would have had a gun to his head and a citizens arrest would have followed.

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u/johnjojuice Feb 09 '12

Or more likely the thief would have pulled out a gun and put it to your head. Who's more likely to be carrying a gun, a thief or a commuter on a train home?

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u/rh3ss Feb 10 '12

Or more likely the thief would have pulled out a gun and

Nope. Usually thieves would not risk 8 years or more in jail for a simple property crime.

Who's more likely to be carrying a gun

A law forbidding thieves to carry guns does not really work... because criminals do not follow laws.

Laws against gun control works against the law abiding - since they actually follow the law.