Maybe so, maybe England is as bad as you say Ard - possibly worse. But I still don't want guns to be more freely available.

All youth is disaffected - that's their job. I taught for years in the inner city, and I don't remember the black youths being any more criminally inclined than the white ones. in fact most of the church going types were black.

as for police harrassment. the cops stay out of those areas - they leave the job of harrassing to the teachers.