Gordon Brown announces new anti-knife measures after 20th London teenager dies

Times Online ^ | 7/11/08 | Philippe Naughton, Adam Fresco and Nico Hines

[ME-262]

Gordon Brown declared tonight that new anti-knife crime measures will be announced next week after four men were stabbed to death in separate attacks across London in just 24 hours. The Prime Minister said the latest spate of murders was “shocking and tragic” a few hours after the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police issued a rare appeal for calm in the capital. Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, will set out the Government’s latest initiative on Monday. Later in the week, the first ever cross-government youth crime plan will be published with new enforcement and sentencing measures. It will also include a new approach to youth crime prevention, including “tough parenting” programmes. Mr Brown said this evening: “The terrible stabbings that have occurred this week are shocking and tragic, and my thoughts are with the families and friends of those who have been hurt or killed in these attacks.” One of those who died was just 19 years old, the 20th teenager to die violently in the capital so far this year. Another was a 20-year-old who bled to death after being stabbed in what appeared to be a road rage incident.

[ME-262]

Next they'll be outlawing sticks and stones.

I can even see the British outlawing Forks along with the Knives, but when they come for their teaspoons they'll have to pry them out of their cold dead hands! You know how the British are about their tea.

Britain is like prison. No Guns, but people getting Shanked left and right.

[goldstategop]

Allowing Britons to carry arms for their own defense? That's unthinkable. Why, just outlaw knives!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[RobinOfKingston]

Brown is advocating applying salve on a cancer.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

How about some anti-crime measures?

[Westlander]

[GRRRRR]

Doesn’t he need to get permission to do anything from the Muzzie-Lovin’ Lord Mayor of Londonistan?

Sharia Law certainly allows big knives for the ritual beheadings?

UK has gone to the Muzzies...

[Lilith Incubus]

Well done UK, what a wonderful, peaceful, equal society you have created with your stuppid, Marxist Liberal politicians over the past 10 years. No surprise though, all of the EU is the same, just kinda different issues!

Dear me, the PM Gordon Brown and his aides, what a shocking leader of the UK. Even worse than Tony Blair, pretending to be liberal, but all along they were Marxist models, with pure capitalist undertones!

Where have the real British people gone I ask? I don't see them at all. Letting children stab each other in the street, letting their heritage be diluted away so quickly?
I thought the proud nationalism, and inbuilt perceived arrogance of the Brits would help stop them falling into the trap that the rest of the EU fallen into, but it seems not.

Who's next for Communism?

[Navy Patriot]

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, will set out the Government’s latest initiative on Monday.

It will be mandatory sterilization and abortion for all subjects. This measure will prevent all crime AND entirely mitigate the UK's impact on global climate change in one generation.

[singfreedom]

How silly! These knife attacks in Britain just prove if people are intent on killing another, they don't need a gun-—or a knife. If determined to kill they they can use tire irons, poison, a concrete block-—or even sticks and stones.

[Diogenesis]

"Oh, how we English do truly love our new Islamic and Iranian Overlords and Masters."

[Ingtar]

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the *Chicago* way!

[Norman Bates]

Ken Livingstone left office last month after he was defeated by MP Boris Johnson.

[TribalPrincess2U]

When do they start banning, forks? Eventually the chopping off of hands?

[Proverbs 3-5]

You go girl! (Brown) It's about time. Guns, samurai swords and defending yourself by pretty much any means have been illegal for some time. What can you ban next and what good will it do?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The really annoying part is that the Tories could be scoring huge points right now with a law & order platform, but are sitting on their heels.

Democracy is pretty useless if both major political parties are both feckless and have the same platform of spinelessness.

[bajabaja]

You sure Iowahawk did not pen this article?

Knife-control?

[Shooter 2.5]

The Chicago of today is just as bad as today’s London. The only difference is little richie daley destroyed Chicago in a quest for power. I think the socialists in formerly known as Great Britain did it because of stupidity.

[ccmay]

You sure Iowahawk did not pen this article? Knife-control?

It's no joke. Actually, they have had pretty stringent knife control for years already. If you get caught with a knife outside your home, you are going to get prosecuted unless you can show you have a legitimate need for it (like a chef on the way to a catering job) and are not carrying it for self-defense.

I don't know what more they think they can do. Maybe all knifes will now have to be rounded and blunt. Then they'll have to put controls on grinders and files and hacksaws.

-ccm

[BossLady]

Geeees....soon there will be no thinking and no talking because both could lead to committing a crime! ;)

[bajabaja]

Thanks for that reply, ccmay, the comments on the Brit paper’s site show that many still don’t get the problem. They were rather unctious, a ways back, about their gun control laws.

This is the logical outcome of misdiagnosing the problem.