The news is once again full people being shot or stabbed; this country seems to have lost the plot. I am sure there are far more murders today then there was just a few years ago.
What has gone wrong in society that criminals resort to using weapons at the first chance they get? If you listen to the debates that the so called experts have on TV on weekly basis they haven’t a clue on how to solve the problem. A number say that we are to easy on people who are caught carrying knifes and they should be given a mandatory sentence, then they are those that say this will not work and we should go easy on them. In any case the jails are full, mainly of people who haven’t paid their council tax or parking fines, while the hardened criminals are released early to resume their life of crime.
I don’t think there is a solution apart from bringing back capital punishment, the death penalty, public flogging will it work maybe, maybe not, does any one have a view on capital punishment, lets have a debate.
We can’t carry on the way we are going!
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Kids are bored it seems. They have too much spare time, and too little supervision. More money at their disposal, more violent TV shows and video games. Childhood is over by the age of about 10 or 12. What can we expect? Young people need good role models and firm guidance. Otherwise they will take the path of least resistance and run with the pack. There are good kids out there, doing well, working hard, but they are the ones whose parents are there for them and guiding them, or they have exceptional characters. Violence is glamorised on TV and PC, I think some young people lose their sense of boundaries between right and wrong with all that they are exposed to.
Solutions are hard to find. National service perhaps, more controlled youth clubs etc, promotion of family, Parenting courses etc, and banning of violent PC games and shows would be a start.