British Girls Warned To Stop Carrying Their Boyfriends’ Guns. Um, What?
Posted by: Olivia Allin
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10:15AM, Friday October 9th 2009
Just in case you thought the world wasn’t scary enough, apparently British teen girls spurred an ad campaign warning them not to carry or hide their boyfriends’ guns. The ads are aimed at girls of African and African-Caribbean heritage, who apparently have been stashing their dudes’ guns, getting arrested for weapon possession and convicted of the crimes committed with the weapons. There have been seven cases like this in the past year, which doesn’t sound like a lot—except that Britain is a tiny country, and one with probably the strictest gun legislation in the world. You can’t own a gun there without “good reason,” and that doesn’t include self defense. A police chairman who works on gang shootings says, “Sadly, young women have always been involved in carrying and storing firearms. We are deeply concerned, however, that this involvement seems to be increasing and those who are involved seem to be younger and younger. Vulnerable young women are sometimes pressurized into storing or transporting the weapons by men they know, or sometimes willingly do so.” When you’re 15-years-old, you should be worrying about your calculus homework and that emo boy you have a crush on, not where to hide your boyfriend’s glock! What has the world come to when it’s necessary to say, “Hey girls, I know you’re super tempted, but don’t carry your boyfriends gun for him?” [Reuters]
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CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 09:29 am: [report]
This is my rifle! This is my gun!
This is for fighting! This is for fun!
Are they talking about guns or penises?
Jillybean
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 09:58 am: [report]
One of these ads goes so far as to have a girl sobbing on the phone and saying “girls gets the same sentence as boys!”
Heavy handed, perhaps, but maybe it’ll work.
bogart4017
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 10:18 am: [report]
I see trends are slow getting overseas, eh?
Jenbug
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 12:43 pm: [report]
Guns and the Dalai Lama, did I miss something?
slip
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 06:02 pm: [report]
Restrictive gun laws have stripped law-abiding Britons of the right to defend themselves, leaving only the gangsters armed. Crime there grows more violent every day and now the criminal class is dragging young girls into the mix.
It’s hard to believe that England was once a superpower.
Slip
Jillybean
wrote on October 9 2009 @ 06:54 pm: [report]
We never had liberal gun laws :/
Personally, I feel safer in my country than I used to do. Moves to combat football violence has really helped. This article talks about a reduction in violent crime in Scotland. I haven’t looked for articles in England, Wales and N. Ireland but considering the IRA’s cooled down lately I imagine the only place you’ll find a difference in those statistics is inner city London. There, imitation of the American gang culture that is glamorised in our TV has resulted in ads like this being necessary.
The criminal class has always dragged young girls into it. Check out the Krays history for that.
SamL
wrote on October 13 2009 @ 04:26 am: [report]
@slip
It’s hard to believe that England was once a superpower.
Britain hasn’t been a superpower, if it ever was, since the end of first world war… Now it’s just a bankrupt, 3rd world wannabe…
@Jillybean
...imitation of the American gang culture that is glamorised in our TV has resulted in ads like this being necessary.
The criminal class has always dragged young girls into it. Check out the Krays history for that.
Right on the money Jillybean. The fact is that if you’re a young black or Asian man living in an urban centre, you’re three times more likely to be a victim of violence than anyone else. With or without a gun!
The problem is far deeper and far more complex than a sticking plaster ad by the police, can solve.