Soaring numbers of children and young people in England are being admitted to hospital with knife wounds, NHS figures reveal.So, anything to be done?
The increase has prompted NHS England to demand a crackdown on shops that illegally sell knives to under-18s.
“Far too many young people are able to buy knives on the high street and we need councils and retailers to work together to stop this”, said Prof Chris Moran, NHS England’s national director for trauma care.Well, I suppose it's something. And the public sector loves doing something. Even if it's an utterly futile thing. Like this one.
Because there's not a house in the land that doesn't have knives in the cutlery drawer.
Worse than that was the senior medical blokey on the Today programme earlier this week. Rather than cracking don on the shops, he wanted to crack down on kitchen manufacturers - who should be making kitchen knives with rounded rather than pointy ends.
ReplyDeleteApparently this would stop the stabbage injuries, and cooks can just put up with it. Or scrotes will simply have to buy a Dremel.
It wasn't entirely clear, and naturally the BBC didn't ask any searching questions like a *real* journalist might.
Cue a few poor shopkeepers getting prosecuted for selling knives to "underage" test purchasers from the council...but nothing really being done about the real cause of this murder spree...it's the elephant in the room...that elephant being African or Asian in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteJaded.
Do you realise that the police budget for the whole UK is only of the same order as the BBC's?
ReplyDeleteBut soon those houses will only have knives with the tips rounded off!
ReplyDeleteThe whole UK stainless steel industry should be shut down now! I must write to my MP at once!
ReplyDeleteso once we`re forced to only own knives with rounded tips watch for the increase in sales of woodwork and gardening tools as screwdrivers,narrow wood chisels and billhooks take the place of knives and machetes, as well as the appearance of homemade prison style shanks
ReplyDeleteThere was an article in the guardian some years ago about gangs in london. They interviewed one black gang who described how violence had escalated in recent years. They talked about how rival gangs when there was a dispute would meet up, insults would be thrown and the odd bit of physical violence. This all changed with the arrival of the somalis (mostly from the netherlands) In there first argument with the somalis they met up and instead of the usual verbals the first thing that happened was a somali thrust a knife into the chest of one of the black gang members. After that gangs had no option but to tool up to counter somali violence. i've checked the guardian website but the article seems to have been scrubbed (not pc enough?) Another benefit of the EU (practically all the somalis in the uk came via the netherlands) and the religion of peace.
ReplyDelete"...who should be making kitchen knives with rounded rather than pointy ends."
ReplyDeleteThat would make them butter knives! What a moron!
"...it's the elephant in the room...that elephant being African or Asian in my opinion."
Yup.
"The whole UK stainless steel industry should be shut down now! I must write to my MP at once!"
I expect by now, everything's made in China anyway...
"...as well as the appearance of homemade prison style shanks"
LOL!
"... i've checked the guardian website but the article seems to have been scrubbed (not pc enough?)... "
I remember that article too! It would account for the recent increase in violence.