Once again music gets the blame

[M Holmes]

Ted Jackson writes:

> On 6 Jan 2003 at 17:37, M Holmes wrote:
>
>
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2631401.stm
> >
> > Summary: every time in the past 100 years that gun laws in the UK have
> > been tightened, gun crime has increased. Politicians need someone to
> > blame other than themselves and so...

> You'd think the rest of the world would have the sense to learn from
> the multiple mistakes we Americans have made regarding firearms.

We don't get the chance in the uK. We're constantly lied to concerning
guns in the uS and since the average citizen here's "ecperience" of US
gun crime is Hollywood movies, mythmaking is passed off as not only
fact, but analysis. Otherwise bright people just plain don't believe me
when I tell them that football kills more students than guns in US
schools; that the areas of the US with most guns have lower crime rates;
that the states which relegalised handguns saw crime rates fall rapidly;
and that Britain has higher violent crime rates than the uS in all but
homicide and since our murder rates rise while yours fall, we're fast
headed for the intersect.

Quite why people prefer it this way has me quite baffled. It's almost
like we'd rather see people raped and killed than admit that Hollywood
movies aren't true.

> Gun
> crime increases because the criminals know that there is a smaller
> likelihood that an honest citizen will now have a gun to defend his
> house.  And, making guns illegal doesn't stop criminals from getting
> them, as outlaws already have criminal records and can't buy them
> legally anyway! So the law doesn't change the procurement means for
> criminals, just honest folks!

You'd think that'd be as plain as your nose, but none of our politicians
appear able to understand it.

obHawkwind: It seems almost quaint that they pulled a verse of Right to
decide concerned with gun crime when you see the fuss about rap music.

FoFP