First of all we have to ask the questions , " who are the kids with guns ?" and " how do they afford these guns ". It may offend the liberals amongst us in society, but the vast majority of these "kids" are black, hence the formation of Operation Trident...to target black on black gun crime...this is a fact and not open to debate (as far as I am concerned)....does anybody here know of any other Operational Command Units in the Met that target "white on white" crime... How do they afford these guns ?....I would suggest that these kids are being used as dealers, by the organised drug gangs, and that the money to purchase these guns are from the proceeds of drug dealing. In fact on the local BBC news last evening and ex gang member from Peckham, stated that these kids are earning ?500 a day from dealing in drugs....so if offered a regular job paying ?250 or ? 200 a week, you can workout for yourself the response. The vast majority of black people in this area are law abiding, respectable and honourable people, but have been let down over the years by the politicisation of the Police Force by local and national government, and the liberalisation of sentencing procedures in our courts. Whilst writing this, I am listening with incredulity to John Reid suggesting that it is the local communities responsibility to sort out these problems.......an absolute load of bollocks from a member of a government that cares only for itself, and looks down on the majority of the population with utter contempt. The black communities that are being targetted by these criminals/lowlifes/subhumans, need assistance from the rest of the community BUT more to the point needs asssitance from the Police and Government. So how do we fight back ??? First of all we need to demonstrate........demonstrate to the Government and the Police force that we are no longer going to put up with Drug Dealers and the people that use these Drug Dealers i.e. Drug Users....without the drug users the Drug dealing will diminish.... and without the drug dealing these kids will not be drawn into a downward spiral of violence. Demonstrate to the local black community, that we are all in this together........lets all go en masse black and white into the hearts of these communities and confront these evil bastards........I am pretty sure that the police and local government and central government, will all of a sudden, come up with some answers, build more prisons, sentence these criminals for longer and make the streets a safer place........... It is not rocket science, but we have to stop all this politically correct crap and spin doctoring, and call it as we see it.....and then tell our servants ( HM Governemnt ) , what we all want......a safe place to raise our children, a decent schooling system where they can learn how to behave in a civilised society and at the same time educate and improve themselves and consequently provide a better society for their children........ This degradation of society and quality of life has been a long time coming, but can be stopped in a very short time, but only if we all pull together in the same direction, and initiate something akin to the policies of the NYPD in the 1990's and have a zero tolerance attitude towards all crime........... sorry for the long rant.........no strike that, I am not sorry for the long rant, I had to get it off my chest