Deaf Smith
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article5299010.ece
Times Online
From The Sunday Times
December 7, 2008 by Richard Munday
Think tank: If each of us carried a gun . . .
"In January 1909 two such anarchists, lately come from an attempt to blow up the president of France, tried to commit a robbery in north London, armed with automatic pistols. Edwardian Londoners, however, shot back and the anarchists were pursued through the streets by a spontaneous hue-and-cry. The police, who could not find the key to their own gun cupboard, borrowed at least four pistols from passers-by, while other citizens armed with revolvers and shotguns preferred to use their weapons themselves to bring the assailants down."
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Man times sure to change in good old England.
Times Online
From The Sunday Times
December 7, 2008 by Richard Munday
Think tank: If each of us carried a gun . . .
"In January 1909 two such anarchists, lately come from an attempt to blow up the president of France, tried to commit a robbery in north London, armed with automatic pistols. Edwardian Londoners, however, shot back and the anarchists were pursued through the streets by a spontaneous hue-and-cry. The police, who could not find the key to their own gun cupboard, borrowed at least four pistols from passers-by, while other citizens armed with revolvers and shotguns preferred to use their weapons themselves to bring the assailants down."
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Man times sure to change in good old England.