Stabbing after stabbing, one online bullying leading to suicide after the next, needless wars & ending of life…. we are all complicit in our silence!

Governments can’t do it all.

where is parenting? where are the parents? Yet another teenager (Brianna Ghey) was stabbed to death in a park – No, not in Yemen or Somalia – here in the U.K.!
I dread turning my computer on these days as the news headline is always the same: a bunch of so called ‘county line’ drug dealers getting sent to jail or yet another stab victim or the recent trend is some angry person who punches another and they fall, hit their head on the pavement and die; effectively ending two lives as one dies and the other is lost to the prison system and reoffending…

Yes, our government (and others in our so-called developed countries) is distracted: net zero, climate change, ULEZ, shooting down Chinese spy balloons and other UFOs (with all the tech we say we have, can America not send up a drone to puncture a balloon and capture it intact, to confirm exactly what it is? instead, like a crazy cowboy film, out comes the missile and they shoot it down, then spend hours searching for it in the ocean? jeez! Come on Yankees, you need to up the tech! deflate the blasted balloons, get them analysed and let’s have an accurate position!), while all that’s going on, we are watching mindless killing, be it in needless wars or by knife-carrying kids on our streets, when indiscriminate zero-tolerance is what’s now clearly needed. Not random stop & searches, how about drones and cameras with X-ray vision, sensors and alarms that pick up knives and guns or other metal on anyone as we all move about and alerts the police. Yes, intrusive, but it is now clearly very necessary. Instead of ordinary CCTVs on trains, street corners etc, install x-ray type smart cameras that screen ALL of us indiscriminately anytime we’re out of our homes or mandate every home, every car to install sensors or cameras hooked to a police centre, put officers on round the clock (it will be cheaper and more effective than stop & search). Yes, there will be objections, but with the number of lives already lost this year alone, this really has become a pandemic!

“Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced that he plans to invest £8.5 million to tackle violence in the capital after 16 people were stabbed and one shot dead in the last five days” – in the news today. 16 in just the last 5 days!!

But we cannot sit back and blame the government. Where is parenting? How are these teenagers feeling so at ease about carry knives and using them?! It really is hard to contemplate! Parents must do more!!!