2006-09-09 05:28:44 · 15 answers · asked by http://hogshead.pokerknave.com/ 6 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Was at Manchester Uni in the late seventies and it was even happening then. There used to be police cars zooming up and down Moss Lane East (where my pad was) - usually on the way to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, as they were not too quick to apprehend people with guns, even then...and so would turn up when the shooting was over...but one thing for the shooters was in those days, they did get the person who had vexed them (who was just as criminally minded). The police's job, thus, was half done, was it not. It's just a shame the shooters are just letting rip at anybody now, be they innocent or, in the criminals' rule, 'guilty' - that's more a Kingston thing, rather than US.
2006-09-10 10:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Moss Side has indeed been that way since I remember first passing through, 20 years ago.
Nevertheless, the UK imported the USA many, many years ago. We now even speak and spell like them. The violence we have now is a symptom of the US capitalist greed being exported around the world since Henry Ford set up his first factory and the concept of the Division of Labour. Yes it's the politics of envy.
Nasty, but crime and greed go hand in hand in a world that gives the illusion of freedom under the veil of democracy. It's an accepted part of the capitalist model.
2006-09-09 13:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-25 22:08:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. I was alone in moss side for 2 minutes before i got robbed. We found the guys who mugged me spending my money in the takeaway. When they were taken to police station, they found 9 phones on them, and knives. A girl was stabbed the same night, a 5 minute walk from where i got robbed. Its terrible. They had one of my phones, (they stole 2) and found my prints on a lighter they had. All the sentimental things were gone. And it was 2youths under 18. Its ridiculous
2006-09-09 05:32:43 · answer #4 · answered by ToniLianne 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not really. It's bad that there are more kids with guns than there used to be, but it's still a whole lot different from living in a society where it's actually allowed by law to carry a personal weapon. In England very very few people get killed by guns who are not embroiled in that world at all, so I don't really worry I'll get shot at. Living just a few miles from Moss Side myself, I worry more (though not too much) about weapons such as knives and things, but you can't worry too much or you'd not leave the house.
2006-09-09 05:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by Pagan_Poetry 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
if the villans with illeagal guns were persued (and punished)with as much vigour as was put into removing all the leagal guns we would probally not bear witness to these sort of sickening crimes,rare or frequent one is still to many.
the law should crack down hard.caught with a gun...life.
use a gun....death.
we already have the death penalty in the uk available without trial by jury...dont beleive me...just step outside and point a gun at an ARMED POLICEMAN AND SEE WHAT SENTANCE IS HANDED DOWN.
much better to do it through the courts dont you think?
2006-09-09 23:34:21 · answer #6 · answered by paintball puppy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it not becoming like US of A and it defiantly not based purely on events in moss side as this area has always been a 5hit hole.
2006-09-09 05:39:30 · answer #7 · answered by godhatesusall87 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Moss Side's been like that for years. Poverty and gangs is all that place is about, trust me
2006-09-09 05:31:42 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Slug 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No because guns are illegal in this country.
We don't have some stupid Constitional Right to a gun which means any retard can go out and buy a gun as easily as they can buy a can of beans.
Ergo we won't have the same amount of gun crime as the Yanks have. But yeah, of course there will be isolated incidents as criminals always find a way to get around it.
2006-09-10 12:23:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Idiots copy what they perceive to be "cool" and "gangsta" types of behaviour and unfortunately some in this country seem to take to the American model .... Why ... America is one of the most screwed up nations on this planet !!!
2006-09-09 05:35:18 · answer #10 · answered by igazeattheblue 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋