Carrying A Knife.

[Theland]

With all these stabbings and no police deterrent, how do we protect ourselves?
I am carrying a hammer.
How about you?

[MallyJ]

2 reasons theland...1 it is against the law and you are bringing yourself down to thug level...if used you will be arrested for carrying said weapon and 2 you are not a well chap (from your posts on here ) it would not take too much for a group of thugs, intent on damaging you, to take your weapon and use it against you.....but if you wish to increase your risk then carry on ...I suspect you are safe anyway most of the victims are teenagers and I am fairly certain you don't come into that category.....

[Theland]

When I was well enough to go to the pub on my scooter, I had a few confrontations with scumbags jeering at me.
They got shocked when I did not ignore them, but confronted them louder than they were.
Nowadays, there is a trend in my area, not for simply groups of three or four scumbags, but gangs.
The last one was two nights ago, at least twenty hooded scumbags together up to no good.
I am no match for this kind of situation, but pride demands I get at least one of them if attacked.

[Coppit]

Campaign for the return of capital punishment - admittedly probably a lost cause. How many people would still be alive if the deterrent effect of the rope had not been removed?

[MallyJ]

Coppit...the death penalty did not stop people from killing others ... murder still happened on a regular basis . Removing the death penalty has ensured that innocent people have not been put to death by mistake.

[Theland]

50 years for murder and not let out on license would work.

[spathiphyllum]

as i said people don't do crimes on the basis they may get caught

[Old_Geezer]

Equally, or more importantly removing the death penalty has ensured that the State doesn't drop to the level of the worst in society and murder people, whilst claiming it's not murder if the State does it because the State defines it as not.

50 years in prison takes the individual out of the community after the deed has been done, but does little to prevent the crime, which is a culture flaw.

[Theland]

And widely publicising it?
Man goes out with knife, even worse, pulls out knife, even worse, uses knife.
Maybe, just maybe, he can think, "Choice, run away, or risk possible 50 years in prison, life over!"
Don't say this would not have an effect!