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Originally Posted by Royboy39
As a student of law..........what would be your take on this?
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Well obviously it is wrong, but you can't stop kids carrying things like knives, I've carried a pen knife once when I was a girl guide, an obviously I wouldn't ever threaten someone with one but I would hate to make knives illegal completely...
I honestly don't believe I know anyone who carries a knife and or would use one maliciously, and I know some rough people who are my age. I think the media has exaggerated the situation, and it is possibly more detrimental to society to do this than for them to completely ignore it, but I am not in the right position to make such a judgment without any research on it.
If I studied crime then perhaps I would be more aware of the situation and give a better opinion, but unfortunately I study the law, and it doesn't often concern itself with the actual larger scale of things.