ANYONE that carries a knife in public should be immediately locked up behind bars. Britain is experiencing a terrifying rise in knife crime as the Government fails to get a grip on the epidemic and more and more young people are being killed.

A shocking 28 teenagers have been stabbed to death in the UK just this year and now police fear that the escalating rise could see more than 100 teenage murders in 2008 if Labour doesn’t get their act together. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has been blasted for not doing enough and last week through much public pressure, she announced a £5million push against gang crime. But it is too little, too late.

The chilling truth is that we now live in times were children are killing children – but more crucially, those that kill are getting away with it and for the small number that are caught and jailed, most of them are out in a few years due to prison over-crowding, etc. Some of which, may then do community service so it gets a tick in the box somewhere in the administration department of Downing Street. That’s right - in between watering plants or lifting rubbish, these murderers are ready if necessary, to kill again. Everything about this is disgusting. How would you feel, if your child was one of the victims? Exactly. Why should we all live in fear of crime on our doorsteps?

Figures obtained under the freedom of information act show that there is a knife crime committed in the UK every 24 minutes. In fact the figures show that in 2007, 5,500 serious knife crimes took place in the UK in just 3 months. Here in Northern Ireland, approximately 1,200 knife-related crimes occur in the province every year, while in the Republic knife crime has risen 300% in four years.

If the Government and police were as stringent on knife crime as they are on speeding, parking and smoking, the problem would soon go away. They have failed to implement zero-tolerance on knife crime and it needs introduced pronto.

There is a knife-wielding, gun-toting, violent gang culture thrashing humanity and it’s making Britain just as dangerous as New York, and that’s not even including the threat of terrorism. The scumbags that murder others should be locked up for a very, very long time and left to suffer, not freed soon after.

Metal detectors should be in schools, regular police searches need set up and curfews for wayward yobs that ruin small communities need to be enforced. Another knife amnesty is needed too (In 2006, Northern Ireland held a knife amnesty and 886 knives were handed in; 28 of which, were from Fermanagh). There’s no reason why anyone should be carrying a knife in public, especially children – it’s ridiculous.

There is also the notion that tackling these problems requires a bout of political-correctness – you know, one must be careful not to upset folk. We need to ditch this PC nonsense because at the end of the day, why beat around the bush. Tell things straight. Most of society, no matter the colour or faith, could do with a good ticking-off and reminded how to live their lives. If you do the crime, you’ll do the time. And if that doesn’t work, bring back Capital Punishment.

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