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Originally Posted by LippoW
But doesn't the business owner have a right to choose one's customers?
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And if a British person displayed a sign saying "British Passport Holders Only" then the cries of racism would be heard all the way to Poland and back. You can't win tbh.
Great post Drag
Years ago the ex was stabbed waiting for a mate outside a pub in Burnley one night. He belonged to a gang called ChippyRA or something along those lines (really stupid name lol) and carrying weapons around was one of those things for them. Anyhow he was stabbed and I remember him telling me he didn't feel anything until he felt wet and warm. The guy had brushed up against him and stuck a knife right thru his front, just below his ribs, and out the back. His brother, not long after, was beaten to an inch of his life with a baseball bat by a rival gang. They used to carry around those knuckle duster things with knives stuck in the bottom of them, and flick knives. I remember seeing one of the baseball bats they had with nails in the end of it, and the ex use to keep a ghurka knife under his front seat in the car, once chased 2 lads with it for looking at my boobs
My step dad went out for a drink with my mum and was slashed from ear to ear for no reason he could think of, other than he was rolling home steaming with my mum. He had 50+ stitches in his face, and because of the trauma they went thru they split up.
Back then knives where just as prevalent as they are now, it's only that the media is more powerful and in your face than it was then. Reports make outlandish claims of knife attacks up something like 75%, when really its more like treatments for knife wounds is up by that much, doesn't necessarily mean that more people are being stabbed.
If kids nowadays felt safer on the streets, then they would have no need to carry knives, but it is going to take a long long time before the mindset that knives protect them will be changed.
Hope that makes sense