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Gun crime
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Everybody is on about the horrific amount of stabbings at the moment across the country... however are people forgetting about gun crime?
I just went to my local shop and found it cordoned off with police tape, forensics etc and found out that a guy was shot dead in front of my local shop at around 10pm, not particularly late by any account, by two guys on bikes who then drove off. I know it's too early to say, in terms of news coverage (though I would have thought the BBC would have got ahold of it by now like the local radio and independent radio) but I doubt this will get as much column inches despite the severity and news values of such a crime.
As well as this around 8 months ago a guy was found shot dead literally a few hundred few feet from my house and had like two stories across the national press and then was gone.
What are your opinions?
I just went to my local shop and found it cordoned off with police tape, forensics etc and found out that a guy was shot dead in front of my local shop at around 10pm, not particularly late by any account, by two guys on bikes who then drove off. I know it's too early to say, in terms of news coverage (though I would have thought the BBC would have got ahold of it by now like the local radio and independent radio) but I doubt this will get as much column inches despite the severity and news values of such a crime.
As well as this around 8 months ago a guy was found shot dead literally a few hundred few feet from my house and had like two stories across the national press and then was gone.
What are your opinions?
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It may just be the area that I live but the fact that this probably wasn't a teenager and wasn't a knife crime means that it won't have a peep in the news.
EDIT: Just heard on the radio it was actually INSIDE the shop. Fucking hell, I was only in there about half an hour beforehand :S
As I understand it yes knife crime is down (slightly) overall, but it is now becoming very much localised into small areas which are having a lot of trouble - there have been 3 knife murders within walking distance of my office in the last couple of months for example.
As for gun crime and its coverage, personally I think its because when people are shot its normally seen as adult dealers killing each other and there isnt the random element and innocent bystanders getting hurt - whether thats really true or not is another matter.
Is there one aspect of modern Britain that doesn't make you very angry?
If you were a sports enthusiast you'd understand.
He did ask you a question though.
What about the hours upon hours of training they've done every day to get there? And once they get there, putting that little bit extra in even when the body says no just to do the best theycan. I'm not saying every single person at the Olympics is a hero, not even everyone who wins a gold but there certainly are heros there.
Although what baffles me is why we're talking about the Olympics in a thread about gun crime.
The original, literal definition of "hero" is protector/defender/guardian. Someone who risks their own life to protect others is a hero.
Also finding better ways to protect witnesses (with out actually concealing their indentity), often it is very difficult to get a conviction if the witness are being intimodated and will not testify.
If people think they can get away with it and see it on tv and hear it on radio all day long it only encourages it further.
You are pointing out the truth behind the story - we have the crime problem we deserve. If we want to stop kids killing kids then there are several key issues we need to address, but they are too complex for those in politics;
1. Decent housing
2. Decent schooling which actually prepares kids for adult life (not just fucking exams)
3. An ability for young people to rise above the poverty in which they are born
4. Legal drug supply
Simple when put like that, but there is no way they can be put into a 20 second sound bite so Brown and Cameron ignore it, that and poor people dont matter so if they die who cares.