Cursitor Doom snipped-for-privacy@notformail.com wrote
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>> Gentlemen,
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> What about us animals ? Our lives matter too.
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>> From my position as an outside observer looking on with dismay from
>> glorious tax-exiledome abroad (as Mr. Plowman sees it) I can't help but
>> notice the staggering number murders taking place in Britain these days. >
> There is no evidence that the murder rate has increased.
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> Particularly Figure 1.
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>> The kind of thing that would be national news for weeks
>> on end 50 or 60 years ago is now so commonplace that
>> it barely warrants a few desultory lines in the local rag.
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> That's wrong too with the death of Ava White and Star Hobson particularly. >
>> Something really needs doing (like reintroducing hanging)
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> Its far from clear that that would make much difference because
> few actually murder another after having been released from jail
> after having been convicted and jailed for an earlier murder.
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>> but no one in politics is even referencing the problem,
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> Because there isnt any new problem.
As ever, you only understand *half* the problem - then make your ignorant and ill-informed comments on the *other* half.