You may or may not have heard, knife crime is on the rise in the UK. Why do you think this is?
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'Cos we're not allowed guns!! No, really, I've no idea. I wonder sometimes if it's just that the media are hyping and hyping, the kids are getting more and more scared, and getting tooled up to protect themselves.
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People need to protect themselves. Knifes are cheaper than guns. It's legal. And you can protect yourself from it. However, people can use it a weapon and kill someone with it. I don't think that it's the parents fault. It's the teens/kids/children's fault. They can bring knives if they chose to.
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Poverty's on the rise too. They're linked.
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The problem is the lack of morals and ethics in the society not the knives or the guns. That training starts at home with the parents. But the parents are generally just too busy trying to make a living so the kids wind up being raised by the TV, school and daycare. There is no guideance in these places only referees. That's what I see in the US anyway. If Tom sounds cynical, it because he is.
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1. Parents seem to be losing the ability to really be parents. 2. There is so much hysteria about paedophilia in this country that teachers are no longer able to physically touch children, even if they are upset, and adults no longer dare to speak to kids. This means that children grow up virtually isolated from the adult world. 3. The get most of their information about the world through TV, and that puts across the message that bullying is good and violence is ok. Check next time you watch your evening's viewing, and see (a) how many people are aggressively judged by others and (b) how many fake killings you see. I think it's amazing that they grow up halfway human.
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Poor economy and difficulty in obtaining firearms. It's on the rise in the US, too. How is Canada doing?
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Most of the knife crimes in England are committed by immigrants. It's the same ol' story everywhere. Parents are both working; there is no family life; life is too expensive to go out or follow hobbies; so teenagers feel alone and need to feel that they belong somewhere. So they form neighbourhood gangs, which then become territorial gangs with a dare-devil agenda: Can you kill someone? Are you brave enough to stabb someone? to acquire status within the gang so that they know they are a valued member of the gang etc,etc. Violent music and computer games do not help as they get used to violent talk and seeing blood and gore.
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This article about knife crime is dated 8 APR 2007: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1626691.ece This website could be expected to throw some light on the subject, but I cannot find a specific reference to knife crime: http://www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/sta_index.htm
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Well you took away the guns. If not knives then there will be baseball bats.
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Because Knifes are cheap and easy to get a hold of...
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They don't make good swords anymore.
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