Re: Bombers v. terrorists

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:06:35 +0100, Charles Riggs <chriggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:59:24 +0000 (UTC), Areff <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>Maria Conlon wrote:
>>> Compare London to New York, if you like,
>>
>>London has better doner kebabs, I think we can all agree.
>
>When a policeman shoots and kills an innocent person in London, it is
>headline news that even the Prime Minister terms a tragedy. There are
>meetings with ambassadors and much wailing, as there should be, for
>many days.
>
>When a gun-toting New York policeman -- all of them carry loaded
>firearms -- kills someone, innocent or guilty, it doesn't even make
>the back page unless the circumstances are somehow unusual in
>gun-culture-land. All of Ireland is more similar to London than to
>America in this respect, as is most of Europe -- Northern Ireland,
>which has a high murder rate by European standards but a fairly low
>one by US ones, being the only exception that comes to mind.

Even from a viewpoint in Northern Ireland the US has a murder rate that
might be typical of a medium scale terrorist insurgency -- a small civil
war. Casually musing on this has lead to thoughts drifting through my mind
such as "Why the hell doesn't the US government deploy military forces to
put a stop to this totally unacceptable state of affairs?"

Admittedly that is an emotional rather than a practical reaction, but it
shows how someone in a less violent country can view the statistics from the
US.

--
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.u.e)
.

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