I started watching some of this last night on Channel 4, they have a week or so of programmes talking about gun and knife crime in the UK.
To be honest with you i found the dispatches programme hard to watch because I couldn't understand a lot of what the narrator was saying, but I really enjoyed "kids, knives and broken lives". They interviewed a load of kids from street gangs to get their points of view on the whole situation.
The kids they spoke to actually seem more intelligent than I originally gave them credit for, especially the kid who said that the government cant tackle the problem of knife crime by restricting them from getting weapons, they have to make them think they don't NEED the knife, and that's the only way to stop it.
One thing that did make me laugh though was that when they were interviewing the lad at the bus stop in london, whos talking about how unsafe the area is and how strangers coming into the area are at risk of being stabbed - and theres a building site across the road with a huge banner - "ANOTHER GREAT PLACE TO LIVE"
Anyway, what do you think of gun / knife crime in the UK? Do you feel personally at risk? Do you think it's been blown out of proportion? What is the solution? Do you blame the parents? The kids? Rap music and GTA?