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Knife crime has left London’s young people reeling. We need action now
Guardian ^ | 2-27-18 | Seraphima Kennedy

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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To: SJackson

No one should be allowed to purchase a knife in London under the age of 21. Aren’t there knife free zones?


21 posted on 03/01/2018 5:37:38 PM PST by Yulee
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To: butlerweave

And men to round up on female heresay.


22 posted on 03/01/2018 5:38:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SJackson

Sounds like the ibn Hatfields vs. the ibn McCoys.


23 posted on 03/01/2018 5:39:09 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: SJackson

Amish woodcarving knives no doubt.


24 posted on 03/01/2018 5:43:46 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: SJackson

Britain Sucks Balls


25 posted on 03/01/2018 5:44:45 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Hey Britain! You hooligan bastards.

Need little Patriot ‘elp!!


26 posted on 03/01/2018 5:45:51 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: SJackson

The British police are too busy harassing Paul Golding, Jada Fransen and Tommy Robinson to do their jobs.


27 posted on 03/01/2018 5:46:45 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: SJackson

Right!!! Well then... henceforth, all things sharp will be banned, and all things pointy shall also be banned, and anything that is sharp AND pointy is right out!!!

Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!

Well, lets see... that about cover it then???

28 posted on 03/01/2018 5:48:34 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: SJackson
Well, they don't sound like traditional English names.

There is the possibility that Abdul was stabbed by an olde Enland soccer gang. But, I doubt it.

29 posted on 03/01/2018 5:51:35 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: SJackson

The real men of the UK need to man up! Crickets...


30 posted on 03/01/2018 5:54:45 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: SJackson

They need to ban sharp sticks, rocks, all useful hardware such as screwdrivers, all metal implements, everthing flamable, any training in martial arts, etc. /do I really need the sarc tag?


31 posted on 03/01/2018 5:55:47 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: SkyDancer

Plastic sporks are the answer.


32 posted on 03/01/2018 5:56:19 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: SJackson
tempting to blame cuts to local authority funding

Conclusion first, then analysis.

33 posted on 03/01/2018 5:58:09 PM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Isn’t that what they use in prisons?


34 posted on 03/01/2018 5:59:27 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yeah, I am thinking that Seraphima doesn’t want to mention that.

Nice bunch of people you have imported, England.


35 posted on 03/01/2018 6:02:25 PM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: SJackson

Disarm those who follow the law. Keep passing more restrictions on law-abiding citizens until criminals stop breaking the law. Makes sense to me. I wonder why this isn’t working.


36 posted on 03/01/2018 6:02:40 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: SJackson

Send them O.J. Simpson. He’s good with knives...


37 posted on 03/01/2018 6:03:23 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: SJackson
At least the banana problem seems to have been put under control


38 posted on 03/01/2018 6:04:00 PM PST by xp38
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To: SkyDancer

There and KFC!


39 posted on 03/01/2018 6:08:20 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: SJackson
I guess they need to ban knives - every knives from butter and steak to bayonet and Bowie... 😀
40 posted on 03/01/2018 6:09:52 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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