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Crime hits record after surge in muggings
London Times ^
| April 18, 2002
Posted on 04/17/2002 6:24:52 PM PDT by LostTribe
MUGGERS struck 190 times a day in London last year as street crime reached record levels, Scotland Year disclosed yesterday.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: banglist
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posted on
04/17/2002 6:24:52 PM PDT
by
LostTribe
To: LostTribe

The Socialists' new theory is that to reduce violence, you must spend public money on poverty.
So next we'll probably be hearing various Left-Wing politicians floating ideas for paying muggers...
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posted on
04/17/2002 6:28:09 PM PDT
by
Southack
To: LostTribe
I'd like to see how many British subjects start wishing that they had the right to bear arms like the citizens of their former colony here in America. (Granted, it is a right the leftists are trying desperately to take away. I think we'd rather eliminate the left to keep our rights, so to speak.)
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posted on
04/17/2002 6:46:49 PM PDT
by
11B3
To: 11B3
I had planned on revisiting London sometime this spring, but this really has me thinking about it...
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posted on
04/17/2002 6:58:21 PM PDT
by
LostTribe
To: 11B3;LostTribe
Everywhere they get rid of the guns this happens. Look at DC.
To: LostTribe
MUGGERS struck 190 times a day in London last year as street crime reached record levels, Scotland Year disclosed yesterday. That was yesterday. Tommorow they'll set new, higher records.
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posted on
04/17/2002 7:21:24 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: LostTribe
It's the extreme leftist so-called "gun control," stupid! Rarely does a day pass when I fail to feel grateful to our forefathers for having rebelled against the English and founded a republic.
To: LostTribe
Its Clockwork Orange for real.
To: Standing Wolf
>It's the extreme leftist so-called "gun control," stupid!
Last time I was there (a decade ago) the streets were safe enough to walk back to the hotel at night after seeing a play. With only the bad guys now armed is sounds like those days are over.
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posted on
04/17/2002 8:28:07 PM PDT
by
LostTribe
To: lowbridge
"MUGGERS struck 190 times a day in London last year as street crime reached record levels, Scotland Year disclosed yesterday. That was yesterday. Tommorow they'll set new, higher records."
I'm under the impression that to get their statistics that "low," England changed their accounting methods such that juveniles are NOT included in those figures.
For muggings, that's significant.
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posted on
04/17/2002 8:55:30 PM PDT
by
Southack
To: bang_list
Another day in the gun control utopia of London.
To: LostTribe
I'll be there in May...but I'll be safe because guns are outlawed there, right?
To: ItisaReligionofPeace
>I'll be there in May...but I'll be safe because guns are outlawed there, right?
If I go along, will you protect me? London is a BIG city, but 190 muggings per day???
To: LostTribe
coming soon to a backyard near you!... liberal gun control sure works great!!.... hmmm I wonder why we never hear about this rampant escalation of crime in England on the alphabet news networks??....
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posted on
04/17/2002 10:00:24 PM PDT
by
arly
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