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Originally Posted by Tin Monkey
I think we need to put all this into perspective and not get carried away. Knife crimes are hitting the headlines at the moment, but it's not as if they haven't always been with us.
On Radio 4 today they were saying that back in the 1960s ('68 I think), knife crime was so bad that the singer Frankie Vaughan met with 4 Glasgow gangs to try to broker peace and an amnesty on knives.
Yes it's making the news at the moment and we're all rightly concerned, but in a week or two there'll be another thing to be very concerned about.
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A sane response ... sometimes one has to look at the big picture ... while our consrvative govt. tell us that there is a need to get tough on crime, the stats tell us that, in Canada, violent crime is on the decrease ... about 500 murders per year ... not bad for a country of 30 million .... and many of thes crimes are commited by total nutbars, or po'd ex husbands, boyfriends etc. ... and it is the horror of certain crimes that steals the headlines and suggest that the problem is worse than it really is. When some gun toting retard kills 4 mounties, or when some other deranged idiot kills three of his kids, that really hits the headlines. But it obscures the fact that, in general, violent crime is on the way down.