The spiralling problem with gun culture was highlighted by figures that show 28 firearms crimes are committed in England and Wales every day.Couldn't they have a lie-in or a buyback or something--you know, something that's been proven to work...?
There were 10,182 firearms offences in the year to the end of September compared with 9,755 in the previous 12 months - an increase of more than 400 crimes, or more than eight every week.And those are just the crimes that were reported, mind you. If businesses are only reporting one in eight 8 crimes, what do you think the chances are those living in or around the criminal subculture have a higher rate?
Or that the ones being reported are properly accounted for?
"Spiralling" indeed. Like down the drain and into the sewer.
[Via Paul W. Davis]