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Posted on 03/01/2018 5:24:28 PM PST by SJackson
Parts of London are in a state of emergency after a spate of stabbings. Cuts to services have fractured community cohesion
t 11pm last Tuesday, I said goodnight to a friend outside a pub in Kentish Town in north-west London. By the time we both got home – about a mile in distance – each of us had passed a murder scene: four young men were stabbed that evening, in at least three different locations. Two of them died.
At the police cordon by the junction of the nearby Islip and Bartholomew Road and the Peckwater estate, a large group of Somali women spoke anxiously into their phones. It felt like so many of the scenes we’ve seen in London over the past year: a shocked community coming together from different backgrounds to deal with tragedy. A young boy, now known to be Abdikarim Hassan, 17, had been fatally stabbed outside a corner shop.
There was further trauma to come. News spread first of another stabbing in King’s Cross – a 16-year-old boy who escaped with his life – and then the killing of Sadiq Aadam, 20, in Camden. Word got round on Snapchat and Facebook as plugged-in teenagers told each other to stay home.
'It feels so close to home': spate of stabbings unnerves London teenagers Read more Sadiq was the third member of his family to be killed by knife crime; his brother was killed before Christmas. These deaths hit a community already reeling from the ”wrong place, wrong time” murder of local rapper, Lewis Blackman (aka ‘Dotz’), 19, who was killed in Kensington last Sunday.
How has this situation come about? It’s easy to jump to conclusions in emergencies, and tempting to blame cuts to local authority funding.
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If the knife stabs every time you bend your elbow, is it a semi-automatic knife?
blame the Royal Knife Association
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Yes, and if you go into a convulsion while bending your elbow it’s a full semi auto knife.
Also acid attacks (plan to restrict sales of corrosive liquids e.g. bleach just like knives) - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4016850/acid-attacks-uk-treatment-victims-burns-sufferers/
We must not mention anything about the perps or we will be prosectued for a hate crime.
Well, those silly Bobbies. Just make knifes illegal and confiscate them all.
You must settle for spoons."
Go ahead and bring a spoon and I'll bring spork.
Sadiq Khan, unperturbed, clearly states the new ‘norm’ must be accepted in the name of diversity.
Ban knifes.
Make the peasants eat from a trough.
I just can’t wait to go to london so that some moozlum can stick a shank into me. What fun!
Just looked this up:
887,000 soldiers from the UK and colonies died in the Great War
Died in vain.
The Blue Raj! Not knifey boy...
“Well, lets see... that about cover it then???”
We’ve had nothing but self-defense against fruit for nine weeks...
Been done already.
https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/the-%E2%80%98anti-stab%E2%80%99-knife-that-works-just-fine-in-the-kitchen-but-cant-kill-a-man/
damn
Sounds like the reverse of Wisconsins stupid law. You can now carry and defend yourself with pretty much any man portable weapon devised except bludgeons. Apparently weve figured out how to stop those roving pistols and galavanting swords from randomly lashing out at people but clubs are just too feral to control.
I see that Diversity is a “strength” in England too.
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