Rescind those silly gun control laws in England and enact right-to- carry-concealed-weapons laws and the crime rate will plummet.
--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > British Cities Under Siege by Young Thugs > > Street crime has become an issue with an increase in armed teens. In > one East London case, what started as a 'trivial dispute' turned > deadly. > > By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer > September 29, 2006 > > LONDON Canning Town grew up as a Victorian-era slum, home to a > caustic stew of noxious factories and cramped houses backing up to > open sewage ditches. Some believe it was an inspiration for Charles > Dickens' portraits of London childhoods too miserable to produce > anything but thieves. > > Things haven't changed much, if you ask Alex Jackson, a longtime > resident of the East London neighborhood. > > > Jackson said he was accosted recently outside a market by three or > four boys who he guessed were between 10 and 14 years old. > > "One of the kids says to me, 'Get us some cigarettes, will you?' And > I tell him, 'You're not old enough to smoke.' And I kept going. On my > way out, about 10 yards out, I get from one of them, excuse the > language, 'You [expletive] bald-headed old [expletive], I'm gonna > stab you.' I'm not kidding. It's an everyday occurrence." > > The neighborhood made headlines last year when DHL, the worldwide > courier service, allowed its drivers on occasion to opt out of > deliveries to Canning Town. > > "They deliver in Beirut. They won't deliver in E16," Jackson said, > referring to the postal code here. > > One only has to step off the train into this dockside neighborhood > across the Thames River from the money-soaked Canary Wharf district > to understand how street crime has become an issue even tougher than > terrorism for Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party. > > The government has poured major resources into dozens of > investigations of homegrown Islamic extremists. But the more > immediate, day-to-day reality in parts of many British cities is that > going to the market or dropping children off at school can involve > running a gantlet of young thugs whose numbers and audacity appear to > have largely overwhelmed the police in areas such as Canning Town." > > (more at link) > > > http://tinyurl.com/gwcmt > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
