Here come the Chips

[Andy_S]

I'll have mine with a drizzle of vinegar and a sprinling of salt, cheers.

RE: UK as a Technological Police State
No wonder our fair nation enjoys such safe streets and why one can savour, after closing time, such delightful behaviour from our polite after-hours socialites (,etc, etc, etc X 100).

Seriously, if we (albeit, I am 8000 miles away) have this wonderful technology that is able to see, follow, track and trace peeps so efficiently, who the hell is doing the monitoring, and what effect is it having on street crime rates. Or do we, perhaps, just need to start inserting chips into all knives in the UK?

[Darth Rock&Roll]

Bullets that cost 5000 dollars each will end gun violence in north america.

Hand knives, not of a kitchen variety having a knife tax of 400% of the value of the knife will eliminate chavs from having knives and thereby eliminate crime in the uk.

If we make it extremely expensive to kill someone, it is unlikely that people will do much of it.

Fistfights are always ok by me.

[yusuf]

Sorry Darth, 99.9% of knife crime here is comitted by chavs who buy £1 kitchen knives or £10 locking folders .. knife tax isn't going to work....

Andy.. it is having an effect.. London is safer in lts more areas than before.. the real problem is resourcing... with the 7th July bombings the Police used cctv to track the individuals all the way back to houses in Leeds, witht he Damilola Taylor murder they were tracked back to council blocks and streets... if the police put resources in to coordinating the search effort of cctv then it does pay off....


problem is they have a set budget, within which street policing, all the other behind the scenes stuff and the archaic bureaucracy has to be maintained.... but it makes no sense to pour mooney in, because that just seems to justify the pencil pushers...

[Dmitri]

Bullets that cost 5000 dollars each will end gun violence in north america.

You think criminals just walk into a store and buy these things? I don't think so. They will ALWAYS find a way to get some.
This sort of policy will only hurt "average Joe" who wants to own a weapon for self-protection.

Besides, humans will always, ALWAYS find an affordable way to kill other humans, no matter what you do.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

If bullets were 5000$ each, then I don't think they'll be easy for criminals who commit the bulk of gun crimes to get any.
I really think Chris Rock had a great idea with this one.

well, as for the knife tax, maybe they could just raise the price of all thing Burberry and then the chavs won't be able to afford kitchen knives because their burberry costs went up.

[Steve James]

Cost won't stop people who want guns to own them. For all their potential to end life, they are very cheap, though. A great handgun costs less than an average computer. Afa bullets, there are plenty of bulk reloaders and ammo supply companies: i.e., bullets are cheap/er by the bunch. That's not to mention guys who load their own, let alone garage gunsmiths and/or the "black" market among legal gun-owners. Guns last longer than their owners, so they get passed down.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

yeesh.

Ultimately it's this. If you don't want to participate in society, don't.

[Steve James]

The thing is, if you think running away to the hills is a solution, your neighbors are going to be survivalists (with guns).

[lineofintent]

Or Reptiles!!!!

[yusuf]

or people like us....

[qiphlow]

this girl has no pants!!!!!

[Darth Rock&Roll]

she sure doesn't.

i'm kinda hoping that's not a lady boy.

[yusuf]

i think your Kleenex box should have a gender checker on it ...