Not really, stabbings in London are a daily occurrence, why should the latest one deserve a multi-page thread? Any particular reason?
A daily occurrence? You don’t think that deserves a thread? Wow! I would have thought you’d be all over that.
It’s a daily occurrence across a fair part of the country, particularly in my part, but I’m not entirely sure what a thread about it would actually accomplish, because it’s not easy to explain quite why it’s happening. There have been stabbings resulting in death in Swindon, Bath, Bristol and other towns around the South West, some involving young teens, some adults, some victims seem to have been complete strangers, others known to the perpetrator/s. Some are clearly family members. Knives are a readily available weapon, guns aren’t, thankfully.
It was on the news recently where a car was stopped by the police, none of the occupants had licences, and they had weapons like machetes, large knives, etc, none of which are legal carry. Many of the weapons used though are just household items, like large kitchen knives, taken from their own home or shop-lifted. One murder of a teenager in Bath involved a bunch of kids from Corsham, who caught a bus to Bath to a party, and CCTV from the bus showed one of them showing the knife to their friends, they were carrying it down the front of their traccy bottoms! A dangerous thing to do just by itself. The usual excuse is ‘it’s for protection’…
