I sure don't feel sorry for them, they are breaking the law. The comments section is pretty good. I was happy to see a lot of people had the same feelings I did about it. This is just a bunch of young thugs that grew up expecting handouts and things being "done for them" or "given to them" instead of working for it themselves. They blame the reduction of welfare (handouts) on why they did this... Yet they looted and burned down places that could have given them a job.
...yeah Britain. How is outlawing guns working out for you? Some store keepers might have been able to save their business. Heck it might not even have happened had there been a thread to the punks that they could end up getting shot.Britain has one of the highest violent crime rates in the EU.
Ahhh whatever.. Pathetic.
Read more at http://news.yahoo.com/britains-rioters- ... 16141.html.LONDON (AP) — Each of the young rioters who clogged Britain's courthouses painted a bleak picture of a lost generation: a 15-year-old Ukrainian whose mother died, a 17-year-old who followed his cousin into the mayhem, an 11-year-old arrested for stealing a garbage can.
Britain is bitterly divided on the reasons behind the riots. Some blame the unrest on opportunistic criminality, while others say conflicting economic policies and punishing government spending cuts have deepened inequalities in the country's most deprived areas.
Many of the youths themselves struggle to find any plausible answer, but a widespread sense of alienation emerges from their tales.
"Nobody is doing nothing for us — not the politicians, not the cops, no one," a 19-year-old who lives near Tottenham, the blighted London neighborhood where the riots started. He only gave his nickname, "Freddy," because he took part in the looting and was scared of facing prosecution; he was not among the youths in court.
Britain has one of the highest violent crime rates in the EU. Roughly 18 percent of youths between 16 and 24 are jobless and nearly half of all black youths are out of work.
