All of their gun control laws and they STILL have crime……… Geeeeeee who woulda thunk……. obviously NOT the Brady Bunch !!!

BRITAIN: 39,000 recorded crimes in the area, including 19 murders and 180 shootings
Date: Mar 21, 2007 9:43 AM
PUBLICATION: The Daily Telegraph
DATE: 2007.03.20
SECTION: News
PAGE: 011
BYLINE: Nicole Martin
WORD COUNT: 348

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‘Children around here are out of control’

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PEERING out of her flower shop on a quiet residential street close to
where Adam Regis was stabbed to death, Emma Moore, 31, shook her head
despairingly.

For her and many of her neighbours, the murder of an innocent schoolboy
is the latest and most shocking incident that has blighted the area
where she grew up.

“The children around here are out of control,” she said. “They
hang
around in gangs, frightening the life out of people who dare to look
them in the eyes. The other day, a boy of 13 had a glass broken in his
eye for no reason whatsoever. I worry about my little girl. I don’t want
her to go to school around here.”

Mrs Moore’s damning verdict of Plaistow, in the east London borough of
Newham, one of the most deprived areas of Britain, was shared yesterday
by the scores of teenagers who came to lay floral tributes at the spot
where Adam was killed.

“This area is so rough that I can only guess that Adam just got unlucky.
Maybe he looked at someone in the wrong way, or spoke to someone when he
shouldn’t have,” said one 16-year-old boy, who went to school with
Adam
but was too frightened to give his name.

“I have friends who have been attacked just for looking at the wrong
person in the wrong way.”

According to a study carried out last year for a Channel 4 television
programme, Newham is the fourth worst place to live in the UK. Official
figures from the Metropolitan Police show that crime in the borough is
20 per cent higher than the national average.

In 2006 alone, there were 39,000 recorded crimes in the area, including
19 murders and 180 shootings. Assaults averaged 22 a day, robberies
seven.

But despite the sense of despair, some residents believe the face of
Plaistow is already changing, and are hoping that the staging of the
Olympic Games at nearby Stratford in 2012 will breathe new life into the
area.

Pat Campbell, who has lived in Plaistow for 25 years, said: “As far as
I’m concerned, this is a one-off incident. Yes, kids hang around after
dark, but it’s no different here than anywhere else in London. I
wouldn’t leave if you paid me.”

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !