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GRAY GHOST SAID


SINCE WE INTRODUCED STRICT gun laws IN scotland

violence HAS FALLEN

I spent a month in Scotland in 2003 as my wife's mother was from that
wonderful place.


I ignored the rubbish he posted about that land of great people with
its wonderful past and its many leaders who have believed in concepts
and ideas that have changed our world.


At no time did I fear the GUN violence that this man tsiya fears in his
own country that he calls the USA.


I personally think this tsiya man does not exist as I have never read
about such irrational fear of his fellow man.


What causes such a man to have such irrational outbursts about his need
to turn his home into a fort for freedom and the American way.


I can only conclude the many in the USA are very insecure people.


It is only just dawning on me why the many members of the USA I meet
want to stay here and why many are trying to.


Keith I do not know how one can respond to a man who has so much fear
for his fellow man.


He is the most negative soul I have ever run into.


He needs a lot of help to just enjoy the wonders of life and remove his
fear of his fellow man.



Unfortuneately for Mr Scotland as Utopia:

Jamieson vows to tackle violence
The justice minister has repeated her pledge to tackle the
"booze and blade culture" after a survey pointed to a high
level of violence in Scotland.
The UN survey said that people in Scotland were most likely
to be the victims of assault.


Cathy Jamieson said Scotland remained a safe place and she
would continue to try to reduce the crime rate.


Responding to criticism of the study, a UN researcher said
the findings were likely to be repeated in a new survey.


Ms Jamieson told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme:
"I don' t think we want to give a message within Scotland or
even beyond Scotland that this a place where it's not safe to
walk the streets and that people are routinely being
attacked, because that's simply not people's experience.


"We do know from recorded crime figures that crimes of
violence, apart from those with a sexual element, have
dropped.


It's highly unlikely that we will find that England, Wales
and Scotland are no longer on top in Europe for this
particular type of crime
Jan Van Dijk
Head of analysis


"But we also know that in some parts of Scotland there is
what's been described as the booze and blade culture where
young men in particular are involved in violence that is
completely unacceptable."


The international study was based on telephone interviews
conducted between 1991 and 2000.


It suggested that 3% of people in Scotland had suffered an
assault, with England and Wales second highest at 2.8%.


Fife Chief Constable Peter Wilson, the president of the
Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (Acpos)
criticised the report and insisted that the general
perception of Scotland was "not one of a violent country".


He questioned whether useful comparisons could be drawn
between various countries with differing reporting practices,
including the US, Poland and Japan.


However, Jan Van Dijk, head of analysis at the UN Inter-
regional Crime and Justice Research Institute, defended the
study and said the findings looked set to be repeated when
the results of a new study were published on 14 November.


He said: "It's highly unlikely that we will find that
England, Wales and Scotland are no longer on top in Europe
for this particular type of crime. "It's my experience that
the levels of common crime don't change so much in the course
of just a few years.


"These are fairly stable patterns and it has been obvious for
many years that the level of violence, not necessarily
homicides but ordinary violence, has been comparatively
elevated in the United Kingdom."