fabricatedlunatic said:
Oh, man, LOL! I was kind of hoping more for a
Hobo-With-A-Shotgun reference, but
Steven Seagal is just as good.
Chavs are the antithesis to society. They can not understand, or choose not to try and tackle the subject of, the economical and social aspects of society. If you see a shop, you see an opportunity for trade. If they see a shop, they see an opportunity for theft, either simple petty shoplifting or holding people up at gun point.
I keep on trying to type up a post arguing my point here, but all I do is go into long, boring, dialogues about how Chavs just want to live the life shown to them in various media by "Gangsta Rap Artists" and the like which just isn't acceptable in the UK. I'll try to keep it short;
Rap started in America by people who were, due to economical constraints because of their race, stuck in ghettos and the rundown areas of inner-city areas where there was little to no government support. However, in the UK, there is plenty of support thanks to our socialist values. Yes, the unemployed may not be living the high life of caviare and expensive luxuries, but most have food on their table and roofs over their heads thanks to the £50 a week or more and the council houses. In America, you had to fight tooth and nail, here you're given a lift to the first step in climbing the economic ladder.
Chavs have taken the music and general attitude from the violent gangsta rap genre, and nonsensically added it to their own lives. They believe themselves to be fighting a never-ending battle against everyone else who they believe is trying to
take things from them, but in real life, everyone is trying to
give them things. Free education, Job Seekers Allowance, etc. "Iceberg Slim" may have had to fight for his life in the slums of Chicago, but [insert typically chavy name here] certainly isn't in the council houses of Croydon.
Christ, this is the third write up on my reply and it's
still winding and boring, but the fact remains: Chavs/Bullies do not wish to improve themselves. Either the authority can force them to understand and accept how society works, or we need to remove them before they gain enough rights through age that can greatly increase the damage they cause, like reaching the legal drinking age or gaining the right to vote.
So, there's my justification of vigilantism. I may sound like a
Cowboy Cop but all the talk of "Just Let Them Get Away With It" and defeatism around here pisses me off to no end.
I just allowed a chav/bully to piss about while I was at school, and three times he has come across me in the street and attacked me. I can't legally carry a knife to defend myself, I can barely even legally defend myself any other way, and the police are too distracted by other crimes they will get themselves promotions, like illegal immigrants, to do anything about it. I sincerely regret not sneaking up behind the guy at school and attempting to cut his throat. I would have been in a youth detention centre until I was 18, but at least I wouldn't be fearing to go out on to the streets because the authorities don't give a damn.
Don't repeat my mistake; kill them while the law won't punish you too much.
And now, I'm waiting for about ten posts reading "tl;dr".