http://shortattnspan.knowinpart.org/?p=355

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/007826.html

I bet the lily-livered in the GWN really hate him and call him out of touch with is ethnicity.

Lots of Londoners are Jumpy and Nervous

[A spokesman for the Council] said in the current atmosphere Muslims were very afraid and other people were looking at them in a very suspicious manner.
Gosh, why would that be? Maybe I’m being unfair here, but it seems to me that a great many Muslims are refusing to face reality. For their sake as well as everyone else’s, they need to get serious about helping the authorities root out terrorism, in England and elsewhere.

Unfortunately for Richard, the ninny-nannies are proposing to take away kitchen knives away since stats show an increasing number of stabbings by butcher knife.

Whaddya expect? You take away guns from law-abiding homeowners, so they have to resort to the next handy weapon.

It’ll be a matter of time before one has to have a license to play cricket since bats will be serialized and marked with synthetic DNA in the event one uses a bat to fend off home invaders.

Has this final paragraph:
Meanwhile, America’s traditionally high and England and Wales’s traditionally low murder rates are remorselessly converging. In 1981, the US rate was nine times higher than the English. By 1995, it was six times. Last year, it was down to 3.5. Given that US statistics, unlike the British ones, include manslaughter and other lesser charges, the real rate is much closer. New York has just recorded the lowest murder rate since the 19th century. I’ll bet that in the next two years London’s murder rate overtakes it.

Try this one too

It starts with this text:
On a June evening two years ago, Dan Rather made many stiff British upper lips quiver by reporting that England had a crime problem and that, apart from murder, “theirs is worse than ours.” The response was swift and sharp. “Have a Nice Daydream,” The Mirror, a London daily, shot back, reporting: “Britain reacted with fury and disbelief last night to claims by American newsmen that crime and violence are worse here than in the US.” But sandwiched between the article’s battery of official denials — “totally misleading,” “a huge over-simplification,” “astounding and outrageous” — and a compilation of lurid crimes from “the wild west culture on the other side of the Atlantic where every other car is carrying a gun,” The Mirror conceded that the CBS anchorman was correct. Except for murder and rape, it admitted, “Britain has overtaken the US for all major crimes.”

In the two years since Dan Rather was so roundly rebuked, violence in England has gotten markedly worse.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/London/Salim_Mansur/2005/07/20/1138956.html

Information is easy to find. This article included the following phrases:

1) violent crime in America has been plummeting for 10 consecutive years, even as British violence has been rising. By 1995 English rates of violent crime were already far higher than America’s for every major violent crime except murder and rape.

2) You are now six times more likely to be mugged in London than New York.

3) “If guns are outlawed,” an American bumper sticker warns, “only outlaws will have guns.” With gun crime in Britain soaring in the face of the strictest gun control laws of any democracy, the UK seems about to prove that warning prophetic.

4) A study found American burglars fear armed home-owners more than the police. As a result burglaries are much rarer and only 13% occur when people are at home, in contrast to 53% in England.

5) Ah. You get the point.

When our levels of violent and gun-related crime approach those in the US we might be ready to take lessons from across the Atlantic. That won’t be for a while yet, if ever, thanks.

I’m just saying that you don’t need to use 15 or more. You might need the rest of that clip and your others to shoot the rest of the terrorists.

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