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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 453179" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Interesting. It has obviously been quite widely reported in the US. The explanations... are complex, I feel. The mob mentality that takes over was clearly in play, particularly as most of the offenders - around 80 per cent according to one paper - were teenagers and even younger kids. A generation of children in deprived areas growing up largely without fathers, without hope of jobs, with a seige mentality towards the police. There has been a knee-jerk reaction from government and judiciary that is quite alarming. The very start of the trouble was caused by the apparently indefensible SHOOTING (yes, in the UK) of a black youth. If guns were even more widespread and available, who knows where this may have led.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 453179, member: 11227"] Interesting. It has obviously been quite widely reported in the US. The explanations... are complex, I feel. The mob mentality that takes over was clearly in play, particularly as most of the offenders - around 80 per cent according to one paper - were teenagers and even younger kids. A generation of children in deprived areas growing up largely without fathers, without hope of jobs, with a seige mentality towards the police. There has been a knee-jerk reaction from government and judiciary that is quite alarming. The very start of the trouble was caused by the apparently indefensible SHOOTING (yes, in the UK) of a black youth. If guns were even more widespread and available, who knows where this may have led. [/QUOTE]
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