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Knife-Crime Spree Sweeps Britain, Leaving Victims and Fear in Its Wake

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You must be joking right? What a "Brave New World" Britain has become,and we in the US seem to be becoming! Disarm the victim , what sub moronic individual came up with this idea? After the enactment of concealed carry laws in the US violent crime dropped dramaticaly in those juristictions! Meanwhile in Fascist states like Kalifornia its business as usual with VERY high violent crime rates. The truth is hard for pacifistic non hackers to take but as a meat eater I will say that I will NEVER surrender any weapon no matter what law is passed! Defense isn't a privellege granted by governments its a right DEMANDED by human beings! So to you who call yourselves anti gun here in the US , I will say that you are in fact PRO CIVIL WAR! And for nonsensical laws that you claim will make us safer? You will in fact cause bloodshed on a massive scale! And you say your against violence? Well your a fool violence is human nature and you can't legislate it away any more than you can legislate morality. But sadly fools keep trying,and innocent victims pay the price for it! I refuse to be a victim. Just remember when seconds count, the police can be there in minutes! No thanks I accept the responsibillity for my own defense. But then personal responsibillity really the heart of the issue isn't it? PS gun or knife control isn't about guns or knives, no its about CONTROL!

Thomas Jeffersons Ghost of NM 10:10PM March 30, 2010

heloo fat guy

jacub sully of KY 10:43AM March 23, 2009

this is disgusting cnt belave this is happining .

emily 11:09AM February 05, 2009

i think its stupid people say they only carry incase they need it but if no one carried them it wouldnt be a problem

JOsh of MS 9:43AM December 16, 2008

how many people have been killed

of 8:02AM December 08, 2008

more people have been murdered in London this year than soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year. I live here, I've seen knife crime, I've been a victim of it and it happens every day.
http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/a-shocking-fact-about-the-war-in-london-i-mean-afghanistan/

Andy Bailey 4:04PM September 18, 2008

Following on from what Jon wrote to Nicole: I am not all sure of how serious the London problem is, and where it is heading, but I do know that this is a textbook case of a sociologist's "moral panic", except that it is fuelled by the media not by society. I found the idea that someone would not leave LA for London something on the borderline between sad and amusing. Let's have a little reality check here.
I think the article here was excellent, surprisingly good. except for the headline. I have a sense that the editor commissioned an article on what everyone else was saying, but fortunately the journalist wrote a very balanced account.
I have not seen other US media reports on this (as far as I know the New York Times, all I do read, has not covered it). I would be grateful if others pointed it out these out to me.

Jean 4:44PM July 25, 2008

Nicole, I'm sorry that media hysteria caused you to miss out on what would have been a fantastic holiday. As a student currently living in London, no-one I know has ever been threatened by someone with a knife, and have never known anyone to carry one either.
Incidentally, the homicide rate in London is still significantly lower than in New York and LA and is, in fact, falling. Knife crime is also down 14% over the last 12 months (police figures). There will always be isolated horror stories, but this time they seem to have gotten totally in the way of the bigger picture.

Jon 11:59AM July 23, 2008

now you guys should understand why chineses govment don't cancel death penalty.
when criminal realised they won't suffer death penalty after killed someone.
so they think it's no big deal only bad thing will be hold in prison .

matt of 3:16AM July 21, 2008

Sure,..make another law to fix what the last one did not. While the Brits are at it they should pass ten laws, each one further resticting the freedom of lawful citizens as well as their ability to defend themselves. You can take away lawfully owned firearms, Menacing knives, Kitchen knives, Cricket bats, Steel toed boots, on and on and on. Billions of people throughout time have died at the hands of other men using pointed stick and rocks. I think the news article is showing that trend. Yet the British still scratch their heads and clamor for more restrictions to be levied on only themselves,..that is the law abiding citizen. Do you think the criminal element winces at the implimentation of yet another law? I don't,...more than likely the biggest reaction a criminal may give is to roll their eye's. Even criminals have become jaded and uncaring to bad legislation. Way to go! Enable the worst of society. The "Good Guys" cannot "Bad Guys" with words and high notions.

Scott W. of TX 4:43PM July 20, 2008