The police and government are doing what they can, with knife amnesties, changes to the law, stiffer sentencing etc. But this really is a depressing societal issue isn’t it???
We all can recall our youthful years, you would hope to come out on top in a push & shove with teenagers you disagree with. The occasional punch up. But you would never wish to see your worst enemy at school die. Let alone be the one to kill them by carrying a knife!
We have a cowardly generation on our hands. These teens say they carry those zombie knives out of fear! Seriously?
But where are the parents??? Where is the training at home??? Do these knife-carrying teens understand just how much horror taking a life causes?! The misery for the parents and the hundreds of lives that each loss affects!
How did we get to this juncture, where a teenager feels it is ok to pull out a knife and kill someone?
To have so many of these stabbings and deaths in the country, is truly depressing. This is not for the police nor government to solve! It is a parental issue. Parents must do more, much more, to appeal to their teenage children: killing someone cannot possibly be the option, regardless of how angry or scared you say you are. Unfortunately, we are at a time where everyone wants the government, the police to fix everything. But when the police try to stop & search (and yes, perhaps it is done in a way that some groups feel targeted. One hopes that is improving as it does help if society feel these measures are applied evenly) they are faced with resistance but we still expect them to miraculously end stabbings!
But where do these sword-like knives come from? Who is selling them? Hunting is hardly a popular pastime in the UK?!
Sad way to make money!
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