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Stabbings/ Knife Crime
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(Totally just stole this from BBC, but whatever)
What are your concerns about the violence that's emerged over these past months/years?
Should the penalities be harsher?
Have you lived anywhere thats had these kind of violent attacks?
hmmm....i'd like to hear what people have to say..
What are your concerns about the violence that's emerged over these past months/years?
Should the penalities be harsher?
Have you lived anywhere thats had these kind of violent attacks?
hmmm....i'd like to hear what people have to say..
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No easy solution but a mix of better education, more active involvement by parents (specially fathers) and much harshest penalties for those found carrying would be my suggestions.
I'm concerned that I'm no longer shocked by these stories.
I'm concerned that the media are interested now but won't be soon...
The quicker we make them realise it isn't, the better. If that means sticking some of the idiots in prison until they rot as an example then so be it. If it saves lives then i'm all for it.
so if someone kills with a screwdriver they should get less of a sentence...
manditory sentences don't work for a reason
The law is very rarely a deterant, especially with the groups most likely to be involved in this sort of violence.
Of course not. There isnt the places for the people who are actually in prison at the moment, let alone any more.
It should all start with young children, teach them that it's wrong to stab and the sort, like primary school age and they'll grow up knowing that's it wrong to kill and rob.
Emerged? This isn't a new culture.
Close enough, I don't worry too much. Keep yourself to you yourself and you'll be all right. Though you do get the odd mentally ill person going on random attacks, in that case I believe these people should be alerted to authorities before they go on a rampage or kept under supervision until it's certain they won't go on one when released.
I know a few people who've been involved carrying knives and the sort, i can see someday something bad happening, it's just a matter of time around here at night sometimes.
But as yeroscrote said your usually fine if you keep yourself to yourself and don't go around looking for fights, although i'm sure it's worse over in London and Manchester and places like that than it is over here in a poxy little city like mine.
ive been close to carrying a knife myself at certain times of the year, solely for my own safety (or the opposite depending on what way you look at it)
The law for knives is carrying a bladed article, or carrying an offensive weapon in public, there isn't one specifically for knives.
Either way, they should have a mandatory minimum sentence. It isn't so much as a deterrent as a punishment and a way of keeping the streets safe for the law abiding public and keeping the scumbags that think it is acceptable to be part of a gang that terrorises the rest of us off the streets.
It won't be an immediate deterrent, but after a few gang members see their scumbag friends locked up for 5 years then maybe it'll make them think twice.
Maybe, or maybe the whole reason they are carrying knives around is they dont give a fuck about themselves or others.
Whatever happens, as long as they aren't on the streets robbing people or just mindlessly stabbing them as we've seen recently in the news, then who cares where they end up? As long as they disapear for a decent length of time then i'm happy.
I'd like to see that too, but how do you prevent people from comitting random acts of violence?
Some of the recent murders were drug/gang related so they affect primarily the gang members.
Others were robberies, and then most worryingly some were just acts of violence where taking some cash was an after-thought.
At the minute, carrying a knife and using it is "cool". How do you make it uncool? By ensuring every one stupid enough to use one in public is taken off the streets.
Kids need to know boundaries from a very early age, they need to know if they do something wrong, they will be punished. And that just isn't happening.
It's not going to solve anything by just locking people up for a couple of years and that's what people are getting these days for knife crimes.
It's more than that. respect is another aspect, for example.
Respect for other people, respect for parents, respect towards authority. It's all gone.
It's nothing to do with money, or lack thereof. I get shite from kids who get dropped off on a Friday night by parents driving a beamer, as much as the ones who live in a council house, sometimes more.