Because it's not about someone getting shot...
These kids see others robbing and apparently getting away with it on the telly, so they follow suit in their own towns and cities.
They see something 'for free' and so they take it, with absolutely no thought or conscience.
These are not riots in my view, it's simply thieves congregating en masse. It's the perfect excuse to shoot the f*kin lot of them. They're only a burden on society in any case - cost of imprisonment, future crimes, state benefits, poor health draining the NHS, and then they breed. Kill 'em all: job sorted. The rest of us who work hard, pay our taxes and do our bit for society don't need these freeloaders whose every move is destructive and greedy.
And I'm generally a pretty liberal-minded person... This one's just got me hot under the collar.
Glad to see some of the really decent teenagers appearing on television and radio interviews - not all kids are bad, this is really the small minority who simply don't want to contribute in any way to the world and are out only for themselves! The parenting is woeful...
A. $%ing. Men.
These people forfieted their rights and liberties when they disregarded those of others. Armed response units should be out there putting a bullet in the leg of every single piece of shite thats taken to wrecking other peoples lives and terrorizing our cities. If they're seen destroying property or most of all attacking another person, they should be shot. Non-lethally, but shot. Lethally if needs be if they're seen attacking people, however. Then, since that would disperse them pretty fast and police wouldnt get the chance to shoot too many of them in any given area, the riot squads at the ends of streets, or just round the corner, to catch the rest of the scum. The rest would get the idea pretty fast.
Punishments for those caught? Easy. Dont drain more money putting them in jail. Sieze any and every item they own of worth and auction it off to contribute to damages, and put them to work as part of rebuilding everything they've destroyed. No fixed sentences, just till its done; free helping hands for building firms. Maybe if these turds find out that its harder to create than destroy at least some of them might learn something.
If any invloved reoffend, then its off to a camp with them for some form of 16-hours-a-day-7-days-a-week slave labour. Dead people cant work; put them to use.
Except the ones that have hurt or killed people, of course. Murderer = jail, for a long time.
As for the apathetic parents, I'll wager a lot of them live in council housing. Make an arrangement with the council to evict them if they cant get and keep their kids in line, indefinitely. They think they own the streets, so hit them in their homes.