There is something seriously wrong in the UK
I am not sure what is going on here, but how some people got to think that this is ACCEPTABLE is really beyond me.
Spiked by INJECTION: Women 'needled with date rape drugs' in nightclubs in Edinburgh and Liverpool leaving them facing HIV checks as police arrest man in Nottingham after three attacks there in two weeks
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@zleap wow this is a new level of attempted rape/attack I havent heard before. Quite disgusting of course.
@freemo Yeah, up to now drinks have been spiked, so people became more aware, you can get covers for glasses for example, there is cctv, people are perhaps more aware / observant.
this just takes it to another level now.
Problem is the UK is WEAK and PATHETIC when it comes to handing out sentences, so people are doing this with impunity, low chance of getting caught, lower chances of getting convicted and if caught and convicted you end up with a low prison term.
Not sure but in Rochdale the local authority was so scared of being branded racist they didn't step in with regard to Asian gangs grooming and raping young girls.
Not the same thing, but a concerning pattern. I will admit it is common for the news to play race politics in how they report to such a degree as to lead to absurdity.
I remember a british friend posted an article about this "racist" old white lady who was racist because she called the cops on a black guy for breaking and entering into his own home. I mean he was locked out and breaking into the home through his window. It seems a reasonable response for her to have and to assume she must have just been racist because the dude was black was laughably absurd, yet that seems to be how the news spins it quite often.
I seem to remember that story,
I agree she did the right thing calling the cops, what would have happened if that person had actually been breaking in with criminal intent.
Could of ended badly. Cops in the US seem on a higher state of alert, as if they expect to be attacked at every call. The difference between the US and UK is in the US people carry guns.
- the police are paramilitarized (there's a cato institute report called "overkill" if you get bored; it goes on about how the police in the US have been repurposed from peace keeping to a paramilitary force that literally gets hand-down equipment from the military and sends drug cops to train with SEALS, french specops and other shit)
- the US is more volatile in general. ex. our firemen are more likely to die in service than other nations of equivalent training. guns have nothing to do with that, yet they're more likely to die due to being reckless.
gun deaths aren't even in the top 10 reasons people die here
By the way to qualify this with some figures, gun homicides in the USA account for only about 14k deaths every year. That is not really that huge. To give you an idea about the same number of people per year die of alcohol poisoning. Considering that you can actual argue for a lifesaving aspect/purpose to guns that you cant with alcohol I think that puts it into perspective to some degree.
@freemo @icedquinn Yeah good point there, and how many of those gun deaths are attributed to mental health or maybe being high on drugs or alcohol and perhaps more agitated as a result.
That I am not sure of, but I would suspect like homicide in general it is likely fairly hair perportion. A person with good mental health is very unlikely to kill someone who isnt a threat. In a way I'd say the very act of killing someone who isnt a threat effectively proves you have mental health issues at all.
I dont see suicide by gun as an argument against guns. People should have a right to commit suicide, as tragic as it is, and someone choosing to kill themselves is their right. IF a gun makes it easier, thats a good thing, I would prefer that over someone trying to suffer by killing themselves via slower means.
@freemo @icedquinn and killing others before killing them selves, which is a lot worse.
I don't think people realise, how small comments (that may seem nothing) can have a big negative impact on people.
