Solution to gun crime

Party leaders are roaming the country talking to children about gun crime. They are all trying to find the solution to the problem.

But they created today's crime crisis by taking away real punishments, stopping parents, teachers and police from correcting children and bringing in the Human Rights Act.

If there were real punishments - the punishment they had in Singapore when there was a guns and drugs problem, no ifs and buts, the death penalty - overnight the problem would disappear.

Who will have the bottle even to talk about it?

Cllr Bill Archer, Wednesbury North Ward, Sandwell MBC.