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Yes, they need to ban knives! |
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Of course it needs to be tackled and desperately!! Our country is going to the pits due to things
such as our useless government doing nothing about crime. 19 teenagers have lost their lives and it
is an insult to their memory and families when the government do little about it.
What would i do? I would stop harping on about putting youths carrying knives in prison like David
Cameron is and just get down to pure harsh tactics like showing them the pain they've caused and
bring in punishment!! What is the point of sending them to prisons?? Prisons are a joke at the
moment with all the offenders playing on the latest game consoles!! Also, loads of young people are
carrying knives so where does Cameron intend to put them all?
And finally, we need to stop places like eBay selling knives for ridiculous prices!! The teens get
the knives off them and use them as weapons against the vulnerable!!
I wonder how many more lives need to be taken before the government acts. |
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Sure. Maybe you should start carrying guns (joking). |
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There is now on the spots fines going though for carrying a knife I think it will work. |
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I absolutely agree. With all the knife and gun crime that has taken place this year alone, I can
honestly say that I am ashamed to live in the UK. Every single time I see the news there is a
headline saying that a teenager has been stabbed to death.
I agree with David Cameron's recent statement that anyone convicted of knife crime should be jailed.
Personally, I think that anyone caught carrying a knife should face a jail sentence or at least face
some sort of punishment that will prevent them from carrying knives in the future.
Britain is no longer safe. We can no longer walk around without the fear of being attacked by gangs
using knives, guns and other forms of violence. The attack on the two French students in London is
absolutely sickening and as a result gives our country a bad name.
Talented young individuals such as Ben Kinsella and Robert Knox are having their lives taken away
from them because of mindless attacks and it cannot carry on. If I was a parent, there is absolutely
no way I would allow my children out as I would be so worried about their safety.
We can only hope that something will be done soon so that we can reclaim our streets. We as
individuals need to have the freedom to walk around and enjoy nights out without having the fear of
being attacked by these mindless thugs. It shouldn't be a case of being in the wrong place at the
wrong time. We should be able to be in whatever place we wish at whatever time without being
attacked by knives or guns. |
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Yes and no. Whats the bigger problems knife attacks or gun attacks? If knife attacks then sure but
if gun attacks then i think guns should be focused more on. |
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People have got to learn that London is not the entirety of the UK, More police on the streets would
be great but as long as reams and reams of paperwork have to be filled in if anyone so much as farts
in the vicinity of a police officer i doubt any extra policing will happen. |
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Certainly more should be done. More than nothing, which is what is being done at the moment. The
problems are deep routed and many. The gang culture that has swept the youth recently is a big
factor but that is tough to tackle. What can be done is to actually strike fear into those carrying
a knife, fear that by carrying there will be some sort of repucussion. We can educate and hug a
hoodie all we like but until some sort of punishment is in place the problem will get worse. Build
more prisons and give anyone even caught with a knife a minimum prison sentence. A recent poll
showed that 47% of kids between 15-18 admitted to regularly carrying a knife. That is one scary
statistic. Being liberal won't solve this problem. |
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Yes there's a limit... But nothing is being done... How many more teenagers need to be called to
actually get the message across that Britain as a country is actually failing... And its not just
knife crime in London but Britain its self.. It may cost money and time to try and make some sort of
an effort.. But you cant put money on sum1s life can you |
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Yes, but there's a limit to how much you can do.
And I'm fairly sure that Glasgows knife crime statistics are worse than those in London. They don't
even bother reporting murders in Glasgow. |
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Like what? I agree with Hidell that this is just another case of media driven hysteria. Knife crime
has been alive and kicking for decades. Teenage Teddy Boys, Mods, Rockers, Punks and Skinheads were
all stabbing each other with great regularity and it is just the same today. It certainly is not the
new phenomena that the media is making it look like it is. |
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This flap over knife crime is essentially a media-constructed phenomenon. There have been things
like this in the past, where they highlight some issues, like Dobermann dogs or the so-called sci-fi
bug, as if it was some sudden new threat, when really it turns out that it has been proceeding at
that level for ages. It's debatable whether the current year's crop of knife deaths among teenagers
is statisticaly significant over the long term.
Even if it is, what do you propose to do about it? Most likely you want to see either random police
searches, violating the rights of citizens to go about their business, unmolested by the
authorities; or sentences of imprisonment imposed on those have not committed any crime which has a
victim (in other words carrying a knife). Both of these measures would be objectionable.
There are many other ways to construe these knife-crime incidents. For example, in this latest one,
a white guy was seemingly killed by a bunch of black guys. It could easily be construed as an
instance of racist tension, then, rather than knife crime per se. But that is not the lens through
which the media chooses to present it.
The real question is why do these people feel the need to carry a knife with them? The obvious
answer is that they must feel threatened. No one should have to feel threatened. Carrying a weapon
is a perfectly reasonable way of attempting to mitigate the fear of being attacked.
Indeed, a case could be made that the Kinsella boy was killed because he was not carrying a knife.
He was confronted by several armed youths. He had no weapon himself, so he tried to run away. If he
had had an adequate weapon, he could have made a stand. A knife may not have been adequate. A gun
would have. The solution to the problem of knife crime is for everyone to carry a gun. |
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06 Jul 2008 15:58
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