www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/three-shootings-18-hours-its-14070344
The Liverpool Echo has the story on its web site – see link above
This is in danger of becoming almost an everyday story across Merseyside as the culture of guns looms larger every passing week, or so it seems.
Can Merseyside Police get on top of the problem or is it already something that has effectively been lost control of? There can’t be many communities across the Liverpool City Region where discharges of guns have not taken place over the past few years so sadly my gut feeling is that our under resourced Police are really struggling to keep the lid on rising gun crime. Having said that it would probably be a false hope for us to think that simply increasing the number of Police would solve our gun crime problem; it would certainly help but guns are I fear becoming embedded in our society.
We may not glorify guns as many Americans do but neither do we seem to know how to stop our society slipping ever further towards one where guns are an everyday tool for those involved in crime.
And to cap it all the BBC is running this sobering story about armed Police in Liverpool:-
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-42458403