Take away their guns

Britain faces growing knife-crime culture

Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week proposed a zero-tolerance policy, but experts say tougher penalties are only part of the solution.

By Mark Rice-Oxley
Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the June 11, 2008 edition


Dr. Ravi Dasan, an emergency department consultant in central London, says he sees more and more stab wounds, most involving the common kitchen knife. "It's a different story from 10 years ago when you didn't have this kind of violent crime."


Roger Matthews, a criminologist at London South Bank University, says that surveys of youth show that a "very significant percentage of young people routinely carry knives." He attributes knives' increased popularity to Britain's strong anti-gun legislation. Though gun crime has also been increasing in recent years as a gang culture proliferates in big cities, weapons remain far harder to access than in the US. "The great attraction of knives is that they are enormously accessible and can be acquired from different places. Very often they aren't machetes, they are just kitchen knives," he says.

**********************************************

And they will use knives.

Take away their knives, and they will use ...







dumbshits