Knife crime

[Vespa]

Why not just ban all knives? Just learn to chop everything with a fork? The Chinese and Japanese don't use knives, they use chopsticks. Don't see many people there people killed by chopsticks.

John Wick can fuck you up with a pencil.

[VeritasVincit]

Define 'problem for the teachers' Do you mean things like beating the shit out of them, or forgetting to do their homework? Give me a list of why kids are excluded from schools, other than behavioural issues.

I don’t know about now, but some examples from my past.
Boy smuggles air pistol into school. In a lesson shoots a girl in the leg. Got three day suspension.
General warning from head. Anyone passing drugs would be expelled. Soon after boy caught doing just that. Stern talking to.
Governors finally had to deal with one boy. His ‘charge sheet’, put into legalese, assault, indecent assault, sexual harassment, theft, demanding money with menaces. He was expelled.
Heads and governors were very wary of expelling, rather than just suspension for a few days, because the offender’s parents would go to appeal where they would be reinstated.
Of course, air pistols apart, a few years ago knives didn’t come into school problems.

[Royal24s]

Why not just ban all knives? Just learn to chop everything with a fork? The Chinese and Japanese don't use knives, they use chopsticks. Don't see many people there people killed by chopsticks.

They do have knives actually. F''''''Ing big swords too

[Royal24s]

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[Royal24s]

Asda are going to stop selling single knives.
Maybe we should ban them altogether rather than enforce the law on everyone .

[Zambo]

Yep, let's punish the responsible again. If someone wants to obtain a knife to break they law they will, but Asda have to be the guardians of virtue, harbouring some silly belief that they are going to sell more products.

[Hillman avenger]

Fair points
But apart from locking people up, any ideas of how to stop it in the first place?

[Vespa]

Fair points
But apart from locking people up, any ideas of how to stop it in the first place?

The Met. have asked to remove the requirement for an officer to suspect you of a crime before they can detain you in the street and search you - happily, the Home Office has told them to get fucked. The s44 farce still in their minds.

They have models in the UK that have reduced knife crime - it seems no one wants to pay for it.

[Zambo]

Fair points
But apart from locking people up, any ideas of how to stop it in the first place?

That is a different issue, for which my views are well documented. What we are talking about here, is a building a cardboard fence to stop a hurricane. A complete waste of time.

[Royal24s]

Fair points
But apart from locking people up, any ideas of how to stop it in the first place?

If you could stop crime before it happened you'd never have to lock anyone up, but you can't so the best chance is to discourage it by example and consequence

[Vespa]

A Tory mastermind speaks

[paolo]

the evil kahn has decided to deploy extra popo to mosques iin the london (and to make hay regarding the anti islamic sentiment)....

but....what did he do for the knifecrime....how many extra law did he deploy?

[AlcoholBrazil]

A Tory mastermind speaks

In the hope there is no-one clever enough to get a piece of steel and fashioning out a blade on a grinder.

[m4rkb]

Units now being deployed to a potential mass gang fight in the cutlery section of Waitrose

[Royal24s]

Units now being deployed to a potential mass gang fight in the cutlery section of Waitrose

Shocking news Mark !
We're just putting the Sunday joint in and I'm going to see whether I can separate it into portions with a chisel and some pliers.
I did think of getting mince instead but I was scared to say that word in the butchers for fear of offending anyone or unwittingly committing a hate crime.