It is so sad. Where was days you had a scrap win or lose ? you may go home with black eye but you lived on. kids don't want lose or face rejection. welcome to the world of social media.
Remember when it was fists and first one to go down lost, and everyone walked away?
Today, you have to be pummeled until you are unconscious in the street, THEN a few kicks in the gut and the face, and then one last stomp to the head…just in case you’re not almost dead yet!
Fucking disgusting!
To me, stomping on someone is GBH, while stomping on someone’s head is Attempted Murder.
While someone suggested knife crime CANNOT be made so serious as to require incarceration, it is the EXACT OPPOSITE that needs to happen!
Brandishing of a knife should be assault with a deadly weapon, while use of that knife to injure should be Attempted Murder!
The deterrent effect alone should stamp out knife crime, and if it doesn’t, why would society want those people walking around, or stood next to them in the pub, while they’re out having a nice time with their wife, girlfriend, or friends and family?
England has turned into a soft “society has wronged this offender, so we must be gentle with him” criminal justice system.
While I don’t condone corporal punishment in most instances, the old saying, “Spare the rod, spoil the child” applies today as it ever did. The only thing that has changed is the rod does not literally have to be a stick with which to beat someone.
Kids grow up knowing right from wrong. They KNOW when they’re doing wrong, but if they’re ALWAYS getting away virtually scott-free, why on earth would they ever change their behavior?
Actions have consequences.
Today, those consequences are sorely lacking.