Firstly, this happened on a busy, normal UK street, people out shopping or having a coffee in the local cafes. Just to set the scene.
Secondly, men DID try to stop the killing and attack the two, but as they were armed with a gun and a machete/knives, those that did were attacked and driven back. So the idea that everyone stood around is not true.
But in the US, its now become fact that the Brits did nothing, the police took 30m. Neither remotely true.
Look, I know y’all would have done shot the men doggone it, but as most British don’t own guns and those of us who do don’t carry, what were the people there (a collection of housewives, older people and a few young uns) supposed to do really?.
Everyone can have John Wayne/Dirty Harry fantasies after the fact.
Yeah, that's the whole problem. The British people don't demand gun rights like we do.
You're a Scot I assume. I think the powers that be set out to destroy the individualism and fighting spirit of the Brits and Scots in WW1. They made the Scots, who were the force of the British armies, stand up and walk into German gunfire. I believe that was a planned genocide. Can I prove it? No. But the British haven't been the same since the millions of the good UKer's were wiped out.