Blooming Personalities C/D 30Th November
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes, it is time. However neither will happen whilst Britain remains a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights.
A step in the right direction would be to impose realistic prison sentences for such crimes and to ensure they are fully served. How we have allowed a situation to develop where prisoners serve, at most, half of their sentences, and very ofter much less, is one of life's great mysteries.
It's not happening to everyone though, is it? It's a few unrepresentative idiots that then get splashed all over the Daily Mail.
Why some people choose to fixate on such things is beyond me. Stop fetishing criminals. It's all the some of you ever seem to think about. Don't you think you're rather squandering the precious gift of life on this obsession?
Go outside, take a walk. It's a nice day. Bet you don't get mugged.
Knife Crimes are in the news at the moment purely because of the amnesty. It's an area that the media can highlight one week and dispose of the next. Not that I think this necesarily a bad idea. I think that we're right to highlight what is a dangerous sub-culture, and a law that is confusing as to punishment for carrying a knife. I cannot for the life of me think of a reason why someone could resonably be carrying a knife on the street (barring utility tools such as the Swiss Army). Would a fixed prison term help?
We need to educate people if they see a violent incident you call the police, you do *not* wade in like some testosterone fuelled John Wayne.
The Police have stab vests, pepper spray, batons and back up - you do not.
It only takes a small stab wound to an artery and you'll be dead before an ambulance gets out of A&E.
Talk, shout, run - only fight as a very last resort
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