(January 12, 2013 at 12:11 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Just to add, a lot of the assault statistics are skewed by violence on a night out on Fridays and Saturdays (I found figures a while back based on police areas in various English and welsh counties that saw 'violent crime' escalate massively on Fridays and Saturdays).
That is an issue that revolves around issues with the so-called 'drink culture' that exists in some areas around the country (I dispute this idea to a degree but it certainly is a problem in some areas)
Also, the figures (If I can find them, which I will attempt to do) would show violent crimes heavily centralised in some of the poorer inner city areas and in popular 'drinking' areas throughout various cities.
I think you'll agree, the last thing you want to do is add a gun to a scenario like that.
Assault-while-drunk is assault nevertheless, lots of things escalate during happy hour (lets not forget ufo sightings), lol. As far as I was aware, poorer inner city areas are uniformly more violent just about anywhere they care to track the stats on those lines. That's not skewing, that's cultural and statistical parity.
In any case, waving a gun around drunk is as bad an idea as driving drunk and for the very same reasons, won't get any disagreement from me on that count.
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