i) Revoke parent rights of young children (12 or younger) and ship the little sprogs off to foster parents/homes to be brought up properly if the parents prove to be incapable of raising the children. Furthermore, deny that parent any more child benefits of any kind. Forced sterilisation would be too much.
ii) Ship off teenage fuckwits to military schools. For them it may be too late, but maybe the shock of being pushed around by someone bigger than them will make them know their place. At the very least they won't be around my streets.
I think the softly softly approach has failed miserably. Playing diplomat with kids who have nothing to lose and nothing of value in their lives isn't going to work.
'Disarming Britain' is going to be as successful as the wars on terrorism and drugs. As ever, if someone wants something they'll get it. Similarly all the appalling limits on social freedoms that the Government have put into place won't help anyone, just hinder the people who have the right to do what they want.
Changes to society cannot be imposed, they have to be made BY society. The law that says you shouldn't kill each other is entirely irrelevant as a deterrent, because 99.99% of people know not to kill one another (the law is just a handy way of dealing with that very small percentage who do end up killing). Concordantly, the people who want to carry knives will carry knives, law or no law.
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