Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
The blitz wast a battle of bombs it was a battle of public tolerance, if that tolerance was stretched too far people would have been refusing to work, pay taxes, go to war and the British would have been forced to withdraw from the war.
George's act that set the message of "we're all in this together", if he hadn't done it people would have been resentment about "royals sipping tea in thier palaces while we die".
That's a pure speculation on your part.

Look at what happened in the French revolution...
Indeed. They have no king and are doing just fine.

Firstly full scale disasters are the exception not the rule, second the mob was able to loot London because the british police proved ineffective and undermanned.
Which is why the people should be able to protect themselves.

Were there any "you loot we chase you down with baseball bats and 2x4s" that we can compare to? because it seems like the threat of guns could have been replaced with the threat of mob beating, like what the arab communities did during the London riots.
2x4 isn't quite as good as a gun. As Al Capone once said: "You can get a lot more with a kind word and a gun, than just with a kind word."

Dunblane is the reason it is illegal to have personal firearms in the UK, the Firearms Amendment Act was introduced in 1997.
I only stated school shooting numbers, If I had included all shootings it would have been somewhere in the realm of 10000 in the USA and 20 in UK
Still, the point is that Britain has some of the most stringent gun laws and people still get shot. Not only that, but people are also unable to protect themselves from mob violence.