i accept the fact that gang related viloence is on the increase in british inner cities, but i'm neither a gang member nor do i live in an inner city so in my opinion i face more or less zero risk from that area, as i said in my original post the situation may be different in the US but here in the UK i feel no threat at all from gang related violence. as i said in my original post the only way i feel at all at threat from violent crime is threat from mugging and whether i was carrying a weapon of any kind or not i would still give a mugger exactly what he asked for rather than risk any kind of violent confrontation.

take it easy,
stuart