General discussion about the latest news (not search related)

[Wonderfulspam]

Ah but they might only live in Tower Hamlets but use the knives when on their hunting holiday 

Just think, if they hadn't banned guns, we probably wouldn't have all this knife crime.
If we ban knives ( an impossiblity), then thugs will turn to some other weapon.

This is true, if someone is determined enough a kitchen knife would suffice.

I notice several stores have stopped selling single knives...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/asda-knives-bans-sale-removes-supermarkets-knife-crime-stabbings-a8815126.html

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1612976/what-zombie-knife-street-weapons-ban-latest-uk/

[Wonderfulspam]

Kelly Mary Fauvrelle: Police to return to killed mum-to-be's home

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48889925

[faithlilly]

It's tough. These kids have very little to lose. It's driven by drugs, turf wars, gangs, 'respect', hubris, lack of male role models and very little else to do of a night. It's not a new societal cocktail, but I do believe austerity and cuts in public services have fuelled it.
I get off the tube, go the gym, go to Tesco, go to digs, eat, sleep, get on tube, go to work. I don't mince about the park or Stockwell Park Estate too often.

When you cut the funding to youth clubs etc and take away the only shield between the vulnerable child and criminality what do you expect to happen ?

[Venturi Swirl]

Nothing excuses breaking into someone’s house and stabbbing an eight month pregnant woman to deatth, not even the closure of the local youth club or the government’s austerity measures.

[The General]

Nothing excuses breaking into someone’s house and stabbbing an eight month pregnant woman to deatth, not even the closure of the local youth club or the government’s austerity measures.

Disappointing comment. I was referring to an erosion of societal norms exacerbated by the reduction of public services and poverty over half a generation. I see it.

[faithlilly]

Nothing excuses breaking into someone’s house and stabbbing an eight month pregnant woman to deatth, not even the closure of the local youth club or the government’s austerity measures.

Until we know the exact circumstances surrounding this horrendous crime it is impossible to say what motivated the killer.

[Venturi Swirl]

Disappointing comment. I was referring to an erosion of societal norms exacerbated by the reduction of public services and poverty over half a generation. I see it.

I know what you were referring to but no amount of poverty or reduction in public services explains why someone shhould choose to murder an expectant mother.  If that comment disappoints you well then frankly I’m disappointed by your disappointment.

[Venturi Swirl]

On a completely different note is anyone having difficulty writing posts because of a slow keyboard response or is it just me?

[The General]

I know what you were referring to but no amount of poverty or reduction in public services explains why someone shhould choose to murder an expectant mother.  If that comment disappoints you well then frankly I’m disappointed by your disappointment.

I'm talking holistically. This is obviously an isolated, targeted incident.
I'm disappointed in myself for being disappointed, which is now compounded by your disappointment of my disappointment.

[Venturi Swirl]

Did anyone ever belong to a youth club?  Their demise is usually trotted out as a reason for juvenile delinquency and I wondered why.  Nobody I hung around with as a youth went to one and yet none of us felt the need to stab people.

[The General]

Did anyone ever belong to a youth club?  Their demise is usually trotted out as a reason for juvenile delinquency and I wondered why.  Nobody I hung around with as a youth went to one and yet none of us felt the need to stab people.

I did. Most visits ended in a fight.
No one ever died, mind.

[The General]

On a completely different note is anyone having difficulty writing posts because of a slow keyboard response or is it just me?

Davros.

[Venturi Swirl]

I did. Most visits ended in a fight.
No one ever died, mind.

perhaps they helped contain the violence in one place off the street.

[Venturi Swirl]

Davros.

this. iwhaes t f Ityoe at normal speed.

[The General]

this. iwhaes t f Ityoe at normal speed.

Davelitis.
Another arse kicking coming up from my favourite mystery mod.