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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-london-bridge-shooting-panic-20989832
I edited the link's title.  A knife weilding attacker kills two people on London Bridge.  Two others attacked the guy with a fire extinguisher and a stick.  I saw video clips of that.

https://twitter.com/clive_allan/status/1200567854313033728
This tweet has a short video of two guys keeping him busy. 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10450979/london-bridge-attack-usman-khan/
This has video showing the police shooting the guy.  Apparently he was continuing to fight and they couldn't restrain him.  

It also turns out he is a convicted terrorist who was released from jail with some kind of locator tag.  
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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2019, 10:48:07 PM »
Probably just some disgruntled Brit named George or Nigel or something...

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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2019, 12:20:00 AM »
I guess the Brits haven't figured out our new, American de-escalation techniques.

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=61365.0
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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2019, 12:28:51 AM »
Somebody did something.
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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2019, 12:30:34 AM »
I guess the Brits haven't figured out our new, American de-escalation techniques.

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=61365.0

They appear to be following the 15:17 to Paris model.
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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2019, 12:35:02 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoNu3GQmdFg
Donut Operator posted a video of this and covers the details of this incident better.

Be warned:  A Narwhal tusk was involved.
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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2019, 03:05:49 AM »
meh.

Loser who was never a real terrorist, released from jail, and provides a very small blip to the murder statistics of London.  Who gives a *expletive deleted*it?

And I mean that not as a rhetorical.  Who gives a *expletive deleted*it about this guy?  Why is THIS attack the one that's leading headlines for days?  What narrative is being pushed here?

Because as Muslim terrorists go, this guy was an amateur, and there's more death this week from terrorism (admittedly, the dead people are brown, but still), One could make a decent case FOR gun control from the ineffectiveness of this, but I haven't seen that yet.  You could make the case to keep terrorists locked up, but this guy isn't a mastermind.  Something the news people know, because while they trumpet that he was "convicted of terrorism" you have to dig to find out that he didn't do anything.  His group made plans for attacks that they didn't have the wherewithal to complete, and threatened to use land in Pakistan to build a training camp they didn't have the funds to build.

This *expletive deleted*che is the Born in England version of a failure to launch that killed two people.  Why do we care?


ETA:  Except for the narwhal tusk attack.  That *expletive deleted*it is metal as hell.  I'm glad I know that that's a thing now.

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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2019, 11:54:59 AM »
I can't help but think how epic it would have been if the Narwhal tusk guy had run him through with the tusk rather than just poking at him.


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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2019, 12:15:27 PM »
I can't help but think how epic it would have been if the Narwhal tusk guy had run him through with the tusk rather than just poking at him.


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I thought the exact thing, and that sent me down the rabbit hole of wondering how sharp is a narwhal tusk, and how you can use just about any object to penetrate with enough force behind it.  That's what she said, anyway.
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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2019, 12:44:55 PM »
The guy probably didn't want to break the tusk
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Re: London Bridge: Armed police shoot man carrying knife after terror attack
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2019, 08:17:26 PM »
https://babylonbee.com/news/narwhal-tusk-surrender-bins-installed-throughout-UK
Narwhal Tusk Surrender Bins Installed Throughout The UK

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