Horror story !!!!!!
I was informed by my sister last night that my nephew was riding around the street on his bike last week with his sweatshirt hood up and carrying a toy gun. They live in Manchester and he was obviously copying what his older pal had seen on the streets etc. The thing is that if my nephew is doing it, (he's a great kid and has a family background that wouldn't condone this behaviour), then what chance have the poorer less well-parented kids got.
( girlinthehole, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 9:48, 3 replies)

"Obviously copying what his older pal had seen on the streets?"
CRAP.

Copying what he'd seen on TV more like.

Contrary to media hysteria (which there hasn't actually been much of recently anyway) Manchester is not a city where everyone waves guns around like mobile phones. I've lived in the Manchester area all my life (30 years). I've worked in Manchester for the last ten years. I've never, ever seen a gun on the streets, and neither have the vast, vast majority of people I know.

It's not like I live in a "posh" area either - it just nowhere near the norm. I'm not going to pretend that it's never happened and I'm not going to pretend that no one's ever seen one, I'm sure someone will come on here and say they have, but that will be the same for anywhere around the country.

Even in and around the Moss Side area (where the vast majority of OMG GUNCHESTER stories come from) it's not like the kids are parading around with a "piece" in their hands.

(Apologies if the original post was intended to be humorous)
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 10:12, closed)

^^ I consider myself admonished.
I actually did write news at first but thought that a 9 year old boy wouldn't watch the news or read the papers so he must have got it from somewhere.

Plus I lived in Manchester for 10 years and never saw any problems with gun crime although I heard about it in the news and papers. But it is out there to some degree.
( girlinthehole, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 10:48, closed)