Every child/youth death is one to many and is a tragedy, but this is not an epidemic sweeping the country, just an epidemic of news coverage and adult anxiety.
The WHO report
- a worldwide average of 9.2 killings per 100,000 people aged 10 to 29
Russia 18 killings per 100,000, the USA 11. France had just 0.6, Germany 0.8 and the UK only 0.9.
With the coverage these dreadful killings get, young people will start to believe everyone else is carrying knives and stabbing, so they in turn will think they need to.