I think teens have access to scarier weapons such as guns
Knives have always been about, and I think drug addiction is worse, I know its always been about but different people are doing it nowadays because it seems more readily available.

I think on a global scale terrorism is scarier than it used to be, but that's down to new technologies I think.
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:13, archived)

So it's worse to get shot than mutilated and beaten to death?

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:14, archived)

well no, with fighting you have a chance to defend yourself or run away
you can do neither with a gun.
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:15, archived)

I refute this.
*refutes*
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:17, archived)

I don't think it's any more readily available than it ever was. We just hear far more about it. It's not difficult to keep away from that sort of thing either.

( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:17, archived)

From global terrorism?
Have you some other globe you visit?
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:19, archived)

I meant the drugs and knife crime.

( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:21, archived)

I'll refute this also.
There's no evidence that violent crime is on the increase in western Europe, and while there has been a move from the abuse of alcohol towards other substances it hasn't made much of a difference to the overall levels of substance abuse.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:23, archived)

I believe crime rates are continuing to fall, broadly, in the UK.
But that doesn't sell newspapers, so it's not interesting.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:25, archived)

over how long a period here, and are you just using percentages of the population?
scrub that, i'm bored
( mongychops, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:26, archived)

That's what I said.

( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:28, archived)

I can't remember seeing heroin/coke addled folks walking about when I was younger
I maybe didn't pay as much attention as I do now. Back in the days before even I was born I think I remember reading that drug addiction was prevalent in the middle and upper classes
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:20, archived)

Note the fact that I say *I think*
I have no research or facts to back this up
( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:22, archived)

Yeah, it's cool :) I'd be very surprised if things really were getting worse though.
Though I'm from The North (like you), where perhaps we don't have so much of a problem as they do in London...my London-based housemates were very amused that I was so shocked that they'd all been mugged multiple times.
( Malchick, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:30, archived)

THE NORTH ROCKS!

( Mrs Sp@m, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:31, archived)

globally alot more cocaine and heroin is produced and consumed, as a dealer i'm glad about that but with the price so low it is hard work

( mongychops, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:21, archived)

Well, opium's been in use for millenia.
As have many other natural drugs. Most commonly used drugs really aren't that harmful.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 13:20, archived)