Comment on Browne Review fallout by fleshisgrass
You are right – there is that contradiction. We are under pressure to objectify knowledge as something you merely take and use to get a job, rather than something transformative of the person. This is...
View ArticleComment on Browne Review fallout by Papanomicron
I’ve paid my money so where is my 2.1 and my well paid job…… That’s what the students have been sold, sadly.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Rufus Ratz
The murder rates in the USA vary wildly from state to state. Louisiana, with fairly average gun laws, has a murder rate ten times that of the UK, while Vermont, which has almost no gun control laws at...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
I know this is late, but what about the freedom to be able to walk home from a bar at night without the risk of someone shooting you? I think that trumps the freedom of someone being able to carry a gun.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
No one is blaming just guns, at least I am not. There are also socioeconomic reasons for high murder rates, however that said if people (as a whole) have more guns what would have ended as a bar fight...
View ArticleComment on I’ll walk 19 miles to avoid this inn by John
I walked the Cambrian Way in August 2010 and spent a night at The Star. It was the worst B and B I have ever been in. Everything was too much trouble for the unpleasant lady owner. A disgrace.
View ArticleComment on I’ll walk 19 miles to avoid this inn by Susan Kilgour
John I’m sorry to hear of your unpleasant experience. Please don’t let it put you off visiting the Mid Wales area again as there are some lovely places to stay in the area. We have been providing...
View ArticleComment on I’ll walk 19 miles to avoid this inn by Papanomicron
Glad to hear there are now alternatives in the area because it is a beautiful art of the country, will be returning sometime I hope.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by John Shevasse
sighs. Attempting a decent rational debate on a topic with Americans is just fraught with difficulty,as you seem like children in some ways. I mean honestly.To refuse point blank that other countries...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
My point exactly. The belief in American exceptionalism blinds people to the truth about the matter. Ou healthcare system is dismal, we have very very high murder rate, our schools are failing and our...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Elliott Bettman MD
to be Devil’s advocate..Canadians hunt and own many guns and the Swiss soldiers keep their Auto Rifles at home. Both have VERY low homicide and violent crime rates. No QUESTION this is a multi faceted...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
Yes of course, it’s not just gun ownership, poverty plays a big role and the USA has the highest number of people and highest percentage of people living in poverty in the first world. The Canadian...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Elliott Bettman MD
In US folks feel “naked” without their guns eg the concealed carry law in Detroit. 1. we should integrate the inner cities. Heck The SOUTH BRONX has come back (not all the way.) 2. UK and other nations...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
London has large areas that are mainly Pakistani or Afro Carribean, and yet it is one of the safest capital cities in the world with a murder rate of just 1.1 per 100k of pop. It has to do with the...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by will
everyone talks about how guns are a risk to safety,insult to the government,and without guns we wouldn’t have problems and have world peace.Well when you have rights there comes consequences,its life...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by will
i hate the thought of being helpless and relying on someone else to save me from a robber, When all i need to do is pullout a 9mm and dispose of the problem.People then argue about how then the gun...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by fleshisgrass
2 things from a very fiddly keyboard. Will, you are in a trough of mistrust which in turn breeds the thing you most fear people with violence always on their mind and a gun in their pants. Second thing...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
Why use lethal force against someone who is only commiting a property crime. How about a stun gun, Puts them out of action just the same, but nobody loses their life on account of some property.
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