6 Young Lives Ruined, Just What Is Going On Out There?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/teens-arrested-after-boy-13-stabbed-to-death-in-reading-12178841
Why are young people killing each other these days?

[dannyk13]

Escalation of the playground fight perhaps.

[jackthehat]

I wouldn't be surprised, given their ages, if this wasn't going to be connected to dugs/county lines runners.

[youngmafbog]

It's difficult to understand isn't it.

Luckily it is not an everyday occurrence and odd instances have occurred in the past.

[jackthehat]

*drugs, even...
These children will keep killing each other and destroying their own lives whilst grown-ups continue to fail to connect their own casual drug-use with the barbarism of the supply-lines.

[emmie]

sadly these are not isolated incidents, many seem to be about turf wars, respect and probably about drugs -

[ToraToraTora]

well Jack 10:04 I'll award BA for that on the basis that this does turn out to be about the steam tugs. With that in mind then should we be clamping down heavier on the users?

[emmie]

boaty this has been going on a long while, deaths from knife crime amongst teens is usually to do with turf wars, drugs and county lines, where young are being lured into running drugs out into the countryside and beyond.

[dannyk13]

TTT, clamping down on the users will not solve the problem. Heavier sentences for the pushers might.

[emmie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42749089

scary stuff

[ToraToraTora]

danny, yes that's been the thinking up to now, but if there was no demand there would be no supply. Bust a few society coke bashes and bang them up see how that effects demand.

[youngmafbog]

With Danny on this.

[diddlydo]

Waterboatman - you have no grounds whatsoever for betting they're immigrants. Such a racist comment of yours.

[ToraToraTora]

steady doug you'll upset the LibFac hordes with that one!

[Peter Pedant]

have we got to - - - no 1 drugs?

[Peter Pedant]

damn, another foo! fred
I really neednt have bovvered yeah?

[douglas9401]

Not contraception then.

[allenlondon]

jack: you write “grown-ups continue to fail to connect their own casual drug-use with the barbarism of the supply-lines”.

More so. Grown-ups fail to connect their massive and casual ALCOHOL abuse to the barbarism of drugs. It’s the same damned thing!

[douglas9401]

"More so. Grown-ups fail to connect their massive and casual ALCOHOL abuse to the barbarism of drugs. It’s the same damned thing! "

Really? Can't recall the last time I was accosted by a knife weilding ne'erdowell claiming their turf in the beer aisle in Morrisons.