Worley
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Wow, I like this Scott guy. Lets put ol Rich and Colin on the backburner, and talk with the Brit who doesn't rip out pictures of the American flag in every magazine they see it in.scott-atkinson said:Ken,
I don't have all the answers, if I did I would be a world leader or something, I just feel that people should have more respect for each other.
I do fear that the US gun culture is starting to encroach on UK life, although we have a huge problem here with knife crime and sex crimes.
The latter being something that you guys seem to be better at controlling than us, for example you are much stricter on child sex offenders than we are, we pander with the idea that these people can be cured. Which in my mind is rubbish. I am hetrosexual, I am not going to have counselling and become homosexual, you get my point.
There are lots of things that we can learn from each others culture that can make each country better. A good example is how you have cleaned up the streets of New York, we could learn a lot from that on how to tackle crime here.
We obviously have a gun problem in the US, and from what I can tell, in almost every case where gun bans are introduced, it has almost no effect, and in some cases, an opposite effect as it was intended too. Looking at that evidence, I can't see it working for us. I think personally that much more strict laws for any type of serious violence will help stem the flow. It has to be apparent to the criminal element, as well as the potential criminal element, that if they live that life, and they ever get caught, their lives are over as they know it. I am not saying kill them all, by any means, but like you said....usually, there is no "curing" these types of people.