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What's with the knife obsession lately?
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It seems that, on the BBC in particular, they mention a new knife attack every day of the week during this knife amnesty. Do they think that kids need a bit more of a reason into believing they need to carry a knife "for protection?" If they're gonna do this, they might as well mention everyone that gets hit by a car, then all these "gangs of youths" would keep off the streets for protection and that'd be problem solved.
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and all youths are now tarnished with carrying knives, i've never carried a knife and thousands of kids don't but the media says we do, so of course we must! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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Anyone who carries a knife for protection is an idiot. You're just asking for it to be used against you, as the WPC found out.
Anyone who carries a knife as a weapon should be liberated from their fingers.
Bunch of cunts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5043842.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5042948.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/5042874.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/5038958.stm
You're totally right, yes I could. It's just severely annoying.
Knifes scare the shit out of me. i sued to be one to look for fights whilst on the twon but not anymore. A friend of mine got stuck and lost a large part of gis gut.
That woke me up, and since then I;ve been far more carful. I just wish you could gahve a fight nowadys to sort things out, without the risk of being done over witha weapn.
So what job do you do that requires you carry a knife? Not being accusing, just curious.
No-one can honestly answer who is handing them in, because it's an amnesty, it's annoymous, people are putting them in secure bins, not labelling them and making sure their details are logged correctly.
Do you have anything constructive to say? Any better ideas? Because as far as I'm concerned with thousands of unlicenced and illegal blades of the streets and out of reach, I feel better.
Fancy answering the question? or too busy cloning drivel from the daily hate mail?
Ah, the illusion of safety.
It's a bit like the old nuclear arms agreements when the US and USSR used to remove several hundred warheads from circulation. They still had thousands aimed at each other though.
This whole amnesty thing is so that the police and Govt can "be seen to be doing something".
At the end of it there will still be stabbings, still be many illegal knives in circulation, possibly in the very hands of those whom have handed over a knife already.
And let's be honest, do you really think that the person most likely to use a knife will be the one who has handed one over?
It's like a few years ago the papers were full of stories of people being attacked by dogs .. and then all sorts of laws were changed - I'm sure the dog's didn't all get together suddenly and start to attack people - i had been going on all the time - it just depends on whether on not anyone does a story on it.
Indeed not, but enough of them will be young people handing over the knives that make them "feel safer on the street" so random accidents will be less likely to happen. You know what I mean? The frightened young man who carries a knife to be like everyone else, but never meant to use it, and if he could only rid himself of it...
ETA: as an afterthought, after an amnesty, the police can be much harder with the support of the community because they've been generous to start with.
Exactally. Tell the people they are unsafe... and they'll look for ways to protect themselves... say a knife. They then get arrested for carrying said knife, arrest rates go up, and it looks good on data sheets... and they can say the police must be doing a good job, because arrests are up!
All goes full circle.
Carpet fitter.
I would say hate is up there...