Interesting piece on the BBC radio this morning.

The piece does mention the crime rate. Apparently, half of what it was in the 90s but also how the police would have used revolvers, but now travel with multiple full mags.
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In the '90s? Mmmm. "maybe"

In my Illinois CCW class, the instructor showed an interesting video clip, to demonstrate how quickly things can happen.

Chicago. Two cops staking out something ro someone or other. "Junior", a gentleman of the neighborhood, is moving away from the officers, carrying an AK (or something similar). Cops command him to "put the weapon down!". Junior turns, appears to comply while drawing a handgun from his back pocket or beltline. Cop further down the street laying in wait sees, yells "Gun! Gun!" and plugs him.

All this happens in as little time as it takes to read this.

Just thought it was interesting.
 
I'm totally ok with your bringing this to our attention James.

SO, big surprise, the BBC noticed that the US military likes its medics to get actual experience treating gunshot wounds. When war doesn't land them on the doorstep, they send people to where the wounded ARE.

I think this is a good thing. Experience in a Chicago, LA, or any other ER where gunshot victims are a regular occurrence might make the difference between saving one of our sons or daughters wounded in combat.

The remarks about crime rates and all the other political "filler" are their opinons, and to me, worth less than what I paid to hear them.
 
From reading medical diaries (70s-80s) I believe Bellevue in New York is / was another hospital that reliably had gunshot trama victums to train military medics.
 
The UK is a different culture, like all cultures, think themselves perfect and how the world would just be better if everyone was like them, and, they are always using the United States as the “bad example”. The BBC loves to point out problems the US has with poverty, immigration, racism, violence, etc, and I think this is their way of deigning that they have similar problems, or at least, their problems are not so bad compared to the horrible mess in the United States.


Of course, since this Nation and our culture is perfect, the rest of the world should listen to us, should be like us, and just ignore the nit picking of the BBC.

As an example, we don’t have football hooliganism in the Southern States. Football hooligans would be shot on sight. And that, makes the US so much better.

Har, har.
 
The UK is a different culture, like all cultures, think themselves perfect and how the world would just be better if everyone was like them, and, they are always using the United States as the “bad example”. The BBC loves to point out problems the US has with poverty, immigration, racism, violence, etc, and I think this is their way of deigning that they have similar problems, or at least, their problems are not so bad compared to the horrible mess in the United States.
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You clearly know nothing about the BBC, why it was created and what it represents...

I hate to break this to you, but people in other countries don't actually spend all their time trying to justify themselves in relation to the US. You should try it.
 
I thought it was an interesting peice and I am glad you brought it up. Gun control misses the point; and I think while articles like this don't highlight that themselves they make the point without realizing it. We KNOW chicago's policy's have failed; things like this serve as secondary peices of information which add up to a whole.

I follow as many foreign papers as domestic ones. It's worth something to gather another perspective.
 
articles like this don't highlight that themselves they make the point without realizing it. We KNOW chicago's policy's have failed; things like this serve as secondary peices of information which add up to a whole.
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Precisely!!

:D
 
peggysue said:
Good site to see daily homicide rate in Chicago... lots of graphs
357 to date 2123 shot
http://heyjackass.com/
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Yep, best source right there. My favorite graphs are the shot-in-the-ass-o-meter and the shot-in-the-junk-o-meter.

Note that 83% of people shot aren't killed, it's only a combination of bad aim by the bangers and advances in medicine that keeps the homicide rate down. Record cold and snow last winter helped immensely too, I can only imagine where we'd be if we had Houston's weather.

Today McCarthy finally admitted we're short 587 cops, no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention.

Oh, and this photo essay is a real eye-opener as to why 80% of murders go unsolved here. Even the friends and relatives of shooting victims taunt the police at the scene of the crime, the victims themselves won't cooperate even though in many of them they know exactly who shot them. http://apps.chicagotribune.com/news...i-scene-of-the-crime-lawndale-part-1-20140907
 
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