not all of these criminals were from Manchester, but I suppose a large number were.

Why on earth would you suppose that I wonder? Do you have any justification for it? Any figures to back it up?

Perhaps we can now treat this grave issue with the serious discussion appropriate to it.

This 'serious discussion' was started by Joe Offer about riots in the USA and how to react. It has been subsumed into a discussion about terror attacks in the UK by people who are still stinging from the closure of the Manchester and London threads because of comments like ake's.

DtG