[lit-ideas] Re: Gun Rights as seen from NYC
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:21:20 -0700
On Aug 9, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Lawrence Helm wrote:
As to crimes of passion and street crime, did you know that in
England crimes with knives are way up?
I quote from the article you cited:
Richard Garside, head of the Center for Crime and Justice Studies at
King's College, London, says the "overheated rhetoric" is misplaced.
Knives are a problem, he says, "but there is no evidence knife crime
is getting worse." According to the annual British Crime Survey,
published this week, there were 22,150 knife crimes in Britain last
year, which means that knives were involved in only 6 percent of
violent crimes—a figure that's been fairly static for several years.
I have been following the stories, which began several years ago in
the Scotsman.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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