2aguy
Diamond Member
- Jul 19, 2014
- 111,976
- 52,249
- 2,290
Drug gangs need guns to stop other drug gangs from taking their money and drugs........so even in Britain, gun control isn't going to stop them...
A local councillor in Sheffield says residents “often don’t bat an eyelid” at the latest stabbing or shooting, since they've become so common.
-----
National attention is usually focused on London’s gang violence, but with a population of almost 9 million people, VICE analysis shows that the capital’s official shooting rate is half that of the Steel City’s, which has just 600,000 inhabitants. Of course, official statistics don’t tell the full story: some claim that there are more shootings in Sheffield than authorities are aware of.
------
“Shootings are going off like no one’s business, and they’re not getting reported,”
claims Anthony Olaseinde, director of Sheffield youth organisation Always an Alternative. “There’s no relationship between the communities and the police; they feel like they can’t come and talk to them. Nobody sees them as being there to help us.”
Serious violence has become so common – and so recklessly perpetrated – that, in certain areas, some children are being kept away from windows by their parents to avoid potential stray bullets. That might sound more like a scene out of Narcos than suburban Yorkshire, but drugs are as big a business here as anywhere, and competition is fierce.
-----
“It’s like an episode of Top Boy on my doorstep,” says a resident who lives in Nether Edge, an area where many of the shootings have taken place, and says she even saw a dead body one morning. “We found a gun when we were litter picking. It’s the drugs that are causing the need for guns to be on the streets.”
www.vice.com
Let me repeat this for the anti-gun extremists from Britain.........
“Shootings are going off like no one’s business, and they’re not getting reported,”
A local councillor in Sheffield says residents “often don’t bat an eyelid” at the latest stabbing or shooting, since they've become so common.
-----
National attention is usually focused on London’s gang violence, but with a population of almost 9 million people, VICE analysis shows that the capital’s official shooting rate is half that of the Steel City’s, which has just 600,000 inhabitants. Of course, official statistics don’t tell the full story: some claim that there are more shootings in Sheffield than authorities are aware of.
------
“Shootings are going off like no one’s business, and they’re not getting reported,”
claims Anthony Olaseinde, director of Sheffield youth organisation Always an Alternative. “There’s no relationship between the communities and the police; they feel like they can’t come and talk to them. Nobody sees them as being there to help us.”
Serious violence has become so common – and so recklessly perpetrated – that, in certain areas, some children are being kept away from windows by their parents to avoid potential stray bullets. That might sound more like a scene out of Narcos than suburban Yorkshire, but drugs are as big a business here as anywhere, and competition is fierce.
-----
“It’s like an episode of Top Boy on my doorstep,” says a resident who lives in Nether Edge, an area where many of the shootings have taken place, and says she even saw a dead body one morning. “We found a gun when we were litter picking. It’s the drugs that are causing the need for guns to be on the streets.”
The Drug Gangs Terrorising England's Steel City
A local councillor in Sheffield says residents “often don’t bat an eyelid” at the latest stabbing or shooting, since they've become so common.
www.vice.com
Let me repeat this for the anti-gun extremists from Britain.........
“Shootings are going off like no one’s business, and they’re not getting reported,”
