It is unknown; at this time; whether a cricket bat would work as well.
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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No no no. That'll never pass. They need to start small ... like fr'instance just banning Assault Knives, High-Capacity Mag Knives, and Bump-Stock Knives.
If you can’t get an AR-15, get a knife.
Remember, Obama said thatifs someone brings a knife to a fight, you bring a gun. The British have to work that out a litter better.
Meanwhile, ban semi-automatic knives and knife sharpeners.
I almost forgot .... banning Concealed Carry pocket knives as well.
It’s all the fault of the evil National Knife Association, boycott them now...
Cricket bats make a lousy assault weapon. It will be American made baseball bats, that was the preferred weapon when I lived in Australia even though no one even had a clue how to play baseball.
Uh; it's March 1st; not APRIL!!!
It is unknown; at this time; whether a cricket bat would work as well.
No fully automatic assault knives allowed, that’ll fix the problem. No knives with pistol grip handles or large capacity clip blades.
Somehow I doubt the people responsible for these stabbings will be very interested in Midnight Basketball, but if that’s all the Brits can come up to explain what’s going on, they deserve their fate.
But you CAN buy them at ANY age!!
Hackers have been known to sharped BOTH the end and other side of the blades!!
Hackers have been known to ...
I see what you did there...
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