Are they natives?
Knife Crime on our streets
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Yes...
Seems mainly because you get crowds of drunk people together outside pubs & clubs due to the smoking ban..
perhaps involved in criminality, perhaps simply a kid/youth who is known to them as hanging around with a group from a rival estate/post code etc...
but yes they're probably not people picked completely at random... there will probably be some reason behind it even if that reason is something as dumb as being from a particular poster code area/being friends with/related to some rival
Shame, I imagined a lovely tranquil little place.
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ignore hand gun ban bit just seems that most people who can be arsed to make graphs are gun lobbyists.
The notes on these statistics also should be looked at:
- Year ending March 2001 includes 58 Chinese nationals who suffocated in a lorry en route into the UK.
- Year ending March 2003 includes 172 victims of Dr Harold Shipman.
- Year ending March 2004 includes 20 cockle pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay.
- Year ending March 2006 includes 52 victims of the 7 July London bombings.
- Year ending March 2011 includes 12 victims of Derrick Bird.
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Lack of officers for proactive and prevention teams certainly doesn't help the situation.
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Back when I was at school nearly everybody had a knife of some description on them, yet I can't recall a single incident of somebody ever getting stabbed.
Yeah back then there was less negative news media, and thus, less advertising of bad things.
In the past decade or so there has been WAY too much advertising of knives for nefarious purposes. The only thing I hear knifes being used for is killing people.
The only thing we advertise knives for is murder and killing. If news media was full of positive knife stories then we wouldn't be in this mess.
Same thing with the recent acid throwing epidemic. Mass news media is simply propagating and establishing nefarious uses.
Really? I hear of them being used to slice vegetables and meat all of the time. Man I worry about the websites you browse...
I said "News Media". News media isn't a cookery show.
Don't worry about the websites I browse, I only browse them for analysis purposes.
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Was wondering why this thread has been revived. Saw in the media today there where 4 stabbings over NYE. How sad. 
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lol london. Its like our own little Detroit, but instead of black people shooting each other, they stick knives in each other.
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Well I had a knife pulled on me all because a guy lost his phone at a house party last night, he headed back to my mates flat today to get it and 'stab *****' if he couldn't
Decided to head in, quarter pounder with cheese in hand, to give my mate some backup. Rocket had a steak knife on him and suggested people were to be getting it.
When I got there he was throwing thing around looking for it and had a 'heavy' from a local rough area as backup. Having grown up in these areas I couldn't give a **** but when he pulled the knife n said people where getting stabbed I was trying to think how this was going to get defused, especially since me and the mrs were nice to him the night before and walked him halfway home.
Thankfully the host phoned the police when he was alone, before me and the mrs, his brother and another friend turned up.
The **** ditched the knife behind a couch before the police came in the house.
It's pretty scary how close it can get to becoming another statistic because of something to trivial as a phone.
Decided to head in, quarter pounder with cheese in hand, to give my mate some backup. Rocket had a steak knife on him and suggested people were to be getting it.
When I got there he was throwing thing around looking for it and had a 'heavy' from a local rough area as backup. Having grown up in these areas I couldn't give a **** but when he pulled the knife n said people where getting stabbed I was trying to think how this was going to get defused, especially since me and the mrs were nice to him the night before and walked him halfway home.
Thankfully the host phoned the police when he was alone, before me and the mrs, his brother and another friend turned up.
The **** ditched the knife behind a couch before the police came in the house.
It's pretty scary how close it can get to becoming another statistic because of something to trivial as a phone.
Its hardly surprising that the news only contains negative knife stories. What constitues a "positive" knife story? I can only think one where a knife is being used correctly.
"Man guilty of using chef's knife to prepare meal"...not exactly newsworthy, is it?
You said "The only thing I hear knifes being used for is killing people". The news aint exactly going to run a story about me cutting a bloody tomato is it? That's not exactly news-worthy!
Read the whole post. I started with "Yeah back then there was less negative news media" My post is referring to news media/social media. Not including cookery shows.
Anyway it's not about me or you reading these stories. I spend my time trying to finding any possible way to STOP bloodshed. The problem is other people who aren't aware they're being fed propaganda.
This is what I try to analyse. Different people take information totally differently.
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Does rocket man have any children?
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No children and about 10 years younger than myself.
Do you have any evidence at all to back up this claim? The news media have always reported on violent crime. As long as there have been newspapers - and likely before - violent crime will have been a major part of the news.