If you are caught with a knife ,it would be reasonable to assume there is an intent to use it. You get a custodial sentence. simple.
Yes we may be sending down people who are effectively guilty of nothing but carrying an offensive weapon but it would only take a few hundred to get sent down before these idiots get the message. You carry a knife you get a year in jail.
Where we would put all these people and what you would do to educate them is another question and no doubt would cost money. But there should be no price put on people’s lives especially youngsters.
oh and while I’m at it , turn off all social media, it seems to contribute highly to inciting “arguments” and what people are going to do about it. so no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, snapchat, YouTube until you’re 30 yrs old. After witnessing two teenage girls on the tube going on about someone they were going to “slap up” because of a comment on some sort of media I dread to think what else is going on.
