BIGOTS

I am fed up with people who do not/can not listen to other points of view. These are almost invariably people whose view does not stand up for scrutiny. yesterday an old guy (The only Express reader in the village – ps. I am the only Guardian reader although Observer does well in Sundays) stated that capital punishment should be brought back. He was not interested in any actually statistics , just convinced that murders have become a lot more common and DNA meant the police would never get it wrong. There would be no way to get him to change his mind. Incidentally the number of murders has gone up a little since the 1950’s from 350 in a pop. 50 million to 594 in a pop of 70 million.