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Originally posted by PeaceUk
5 Arrested For Teenage Murder
What the hell is going on here?
Teenagers stabbing other teenagers with knives! What's so strange about that?
It's claimed to be an epidemic, and it really has gotten out of control.
* An epidemic? Out of control? Just 14 deaths in an city of between 11 and 15 million people? I should think it would be a lot worst. Specially in some of London's neighborhoods...
What do you guys reckon is going on here?
* Media with papers to sell and news time to fill on TV. I don't see any major drifts in the normal crime statistics, what I see is a lot of tabloids, and bad TV news shows, blowing this occurrence way out of proportion. The same thing that happened with the Welsh Suicide Pacts and Maddie's alleged abduction.
[edit on 7-7-2008 by NorthWolfe CND]
Originally posted by PeaceUk
How do you battle something like that?
Originally posted by shuck
In the Uk guns are hard to get ..unless you know someone that knows someone,,,but a knife can be picked up in the kitchen or bought on the interenet..
( I think a lot of that "Gangsta " culture came from the good ole US OF A ..) But its here...and these kids are breeding kids with even less morality..
Is there a solution...yes of course there is..but that takes time..it took time to get to this stage and it will take generations to get out of this..
There is not the rescources to give an an alternative ..and the people and politicians do not have the guts nor intelligence..to stamp this out...
...long sentences applied harshly against those that cross a line.
Take my guns, my knifes, all bust out my fork
The solution to violence I think is unachievable through modern methods and it would take a very authoritarian government to quell the majority of violence and who really wants that?
Originally posted by Boniouk06
giving everyone a gun? thats a bit silly. there is still some crime which is just holding up a shopkeeper u know... that wud instantly turn into a murder coz of the criminal knowing that the shopkeeper had a gun (he wudnt mess about, he wud just fire straight away), i dont think thats it at all.
Throughout history there have been bad people. so i dont think you can stop bad people from existing and wanting to cause trouble. SO identigy them, and lock them away.
Originally posted by PeaceUk
5 Arrested For Teenage Murder
Yet another teenage stabbed to death here in London. The question I want to ask is:
What the hell is going on here?
Me and my dad talk about this a lot; what we reckon the causes are etc, and it is really hard to pin it down. I live in London myself (and I know it's happening all over Britain), but we've already had 13 knife murders this year just in London, with recently 4 deaths in 4 days.
It's claimed to be an epidemic, and it really has gotten out of control. Knife crime is now the number one concern for Met police - it has even overtaken terrorism.
What do you guys reckon is going on here?
Originally posted by ChocoTaco369
No one is going to rob a Dunkin Donuts if they know the 15 people in line are packing a semi-auto handgun.
Originally posted by Shazam The Unbowed
The Uk has banned guns, disarmed its citizens, removed thier right to self defense, and oficially reccommended that in the event of a home invasion you should run rather than protect your home or family.
What the heck did you fools expect?
As far as I am concerned, you people are getting exactly what you deserve.
Originally posted by neformore
So armed robberys and gun murders don't happen in the USA, huh?
Originally posted by neformore
This "fool" expects that, had these idiots had guns, they'd probably have shot each other, and possibly taken a few more people out as well in the process.
Theres a reason for that, and thats because they are idiots.
Much safer that, huh?
UK law allows for the use of force to protect person and property as need be. What it didn't allow was a man shooting a teenager in the back as he left the property.