when is it going to stop

I walk down the street and around the corner of my neighbourhood and this is what I see. A group of young chavs with attitudes sitting on a staircase waiting for trouble. I can’t help but wonder if they have knives in their pockets. And if they do have knives in their pockets, whether they intend to use them.

Knife is the weapon of choice here in the UK. The worst thing about it is that people here prefer to turn a blind eye. Ignorance is bliss. There is a major knife epidemic here in the UK.

Knife violence. The motive? Race? Gang related? Or just looking at someone “the wrong way”?

I think the media is making it worse and sometimes even glamourises it by making the murderers somewhat heroes by slapping their photos on the front of newspapers. Broadcasting day after day about new stabbings makes people feel more unsafe and which therefore encourages kids to carry knives because they feel they have to.

People defend it by saying they carry weapons such as knives because it makes them feel safe - for protection.

But I would never stab someone, so I wouldn’t even think of carrying a weapon because it is completely pointless to me.

And how is this for irony in its crappest form:

Maybe we should ban kitchen cutlery and certain members of British society can rely on the government to cut their food for them because knives are obviously too dangerous to be left in civilian hands.