It's a spectacle designed to scare the public and have them disarmed. This is also why our governments have been soft on crime for 30+ years. Politicians need the criminals to scare the public into submission to rigorous regulations.
British people aren't real.
https://video.nostr.build/2769b9da0a5bcc8dfd480da78fb0d5286faf6be00bb60471cea605751e92acbe.mp4
Discussion
So, it's basically like the Mafia behaviour, they create threats, then take away your money and rights to 'protect' you from those threats.
Yes;
Vote for your favorite Mafia every 4 years.
Though, the traditional mafia didn't have ambitions to indoctrinate your children and tell you what to think, as long as you paid your protection fee. Protection-against-the-mafia fee.