Recent content by Bryllig

Last year, the most common method of killing was by sharp instrument 36% (200 cases). Gun or Firearm related murders / homicides were approximately 7% (39 cases) As to WHY they were killed. Female victims were more likely to be killed by someone they knew. In most of these cases, female...

The estimate is around a million. But that includes all military weapons, police weapons, and air rifles (I think you call these BB guns), as well as historical weapons sitting in display cases, etc.

Hi. Thanks for all the facts!! Fact 1: The rate of violent crime has risen. WRONG. It has fallen. (You have to be careful with statistics, and avoid selecting the ones to prove your point, as they can be quoted out of context. Because crime goes up and down a bit over time, it would be easy...

Oh, I care, believe me. But if someone tries to murder me with a candlestick or a rope or a piece of lead piping, I have a pretty good chance of surviving the encounter! The good news for people in the UK is that over 90% potential murderers don't carry guns. Which is why we have less...

Hi. Thanks for the bold. That made it much clearer. The problem is that when the newspaper that the area had "a violent reputation" you assumed that this meant guns. To you, violence and guns go hand in hand. But you got it wrong. The Manor is a rough area of Sheffield. It is a violent...

The murderers either a) had a legally owned weapon, or b) the gun was illegal. Because guns are illegal, and the penalty for having a gun is very severe, most criminals in the UK don't carry a gun when carrying out their illegal activities, because they know that their sentence if they are...

Clutching at straws with the last one, aren't you?? A book about the murders in the city since 1847? Including the gang wars of the 1920s when literally a couple of dozen people died?. Yes, there have been shootings in Sheffield. I never said that my city (with a population of half a million...

Oh, and as for 'saving our asses in two world wars', the first one was just about over by the time you guys turned up. If any country can take credit for doing the most to help Britain fight facism in the second world war, it is probably Russia, who killed ten times as many German soldiers...

Hi. Just thought I would put your misunderstandings to rest. England's violent crime rates are NOT off the chart (where did you get that impression???) - in fact they are going down. Official quote from the UK Government "The number of homicides recorded by the police in 2011/12 fell by 14...

Hi. It seems to me that you have LOTS of guns in the US. I mean, staggeringly large numbers of guns. Here in the UK we have none (well, almost none - farmers have shotguns, and some police are armed), but I have never seen a gun in the UK (except in the hands of the police, but only at airpots)...

Hmm. From over here in the UK the message board displays an extraordinary reaction. Do you people REALLY believe in the death penalty for an opportunistic burgular?? You actually think this woman should have had more firepower at her disposal???? Wow. Of course I agree that the burgular...

In the UK, supermarkets stock jars of sandwich spreads and pastes (all sorts of different flavours) These are a quick and easy way of making a sandwich, and are ideal for your kid's lunchbox. I suspect these were invented shortly after World War II, when food was in short supply, and these...