M9 pistoKnowing, as I do from individual research, that the Daily Mail cannot be trusted to tell the truth the whole time, I am making this post despite my reservations.

According to the Daily Mail Weekend magazine’s review of Murder Blues, a BBC1 program airing as I write, London is the 3rd worst city in the world for gun shootings. When you consider that this is in ‘competition’ with cities like Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Nottingham and any number of third world and other US cities, that is truly shocking.

The US is world renowned for having legal, even protected, gun ownership - the so-called “Right to bear arms”. And yet they manage to only have a maximum (as I don’t know what the top two are) of two cities above London? Incredible.