11 year old boy shot in cold blood, by thug.

[Lad]

He was innocent and basically hadn't done a thing wrong.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers ... 961551.stm

Not sure how common these things are in the US, but this is so very rare in the UK. Infact I can't ever remember a young boy shooting another younger, innocent boy in what appears to be a mindless almost video game attack.

The nation grieves with the family and is a sad reminder that no-one is safe nowadays.

[Romulus111VADT]

It happens all the time in the US unfortunately.

[Dom]

I was about to say that things are getting worse by the day over here in the UK, but I'm not sure that they are. When it comes to gun crimes, the UK has gone rapidly downhill this past year or so, so in that respect things are getting worse.

But my grandparents, as an example, are always making sarcastic comments about how "crime rates are going down, they say" whenever a news story like this hits the lunchtime news. Obviously they believe otherwise. Maybe it's true, and crime rates are still getting worse, but I think a large part of that viewpoint is the fact that news is much more readily available than it used to be, and it's not that more crimes are happening, but that they are reported a lot more frequently, and to more people these days.

So who knows, maybe things are getting worse in the UK, or maybe it's just that more news is being told now than it used to be. Whatever the weather, I don't like this gun crime fad that seems to be hitting the nation...

[appleton]

Not sure what it is but I am tired of seeing all this crime.

People being stabbed in necks and people shot in heads... it's really depressing. The world needs a huge wake up call.

[Romulus111VADT]

I can't remember exactly where in South America (I believe it was Brazil), but men are allowed by law to kill their wives if the wife has dishonored him. I read an article years ago about one particularly bad fellow that set his wife on fire because she had insulted him in some way. She survived though she was horribly disfigured and they were trying to get he laws changed. I don't know what ever became of the laws.

Honor killings are legal in many countries, especially in the middle east, Africa, India and many southeast Asian countries.

[appleton]

I would be very surprised if it was Brazil. However that is a very nasty law.

These killings and laws will never be truley eradicated. They are draconian and definitely not 21st century!

[Luke]

Just goes to show that the more modern and self-sufficient we get, the more uncontrolled and immoral we get as a culture. Whenever cultures have reached this deranged point in the past, as they have over and over, they never last much longer.