Some newby just signed up as bang_list and will be pinged instead of the thread added to the *bang_list unless the asterisk is used.
"Despite growing concern over the availability of guns in Britain, figures supplied to the United Nations and collated by Canadian government researchers showed that the UK is one of the safest countries in the world in terms of gun crime. Only Japan - a country with some of the strictest gun controls in the world - Romania and Guinea have a lower rate of gun killings per head of population."So, if someone holds a gun to your head and demands your wallet, but doesn't kill you, in Britain that's not a "gun crime?"
Or is this author intentionally trying to decieve?