This is a frightening report on the BBC. I have been to this school and it is a quiet suburb not unlike Kingston.It makes you realise that the growing use of knives in crime is in someways more dangerous than any rise in gun culture. Knives are easily accessible, as we saw earlier in the week with the stabbing of a police woman outside her own home.
Kingston is vulnerable as the proliferation of night clubs has led to knife instances that are frequently reported in the press. And whilst crime overall has fallen in Kingston there are worrying rises in robbery and burglary. Although still small (52 instances) gun crime is also rising in the Royal Borough.
How do you prevent this? Are we a short distance from scanners at police stations and public buildings? Body scanners on the doors of pubs and restaurants?
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It just goes to prove that the knee-jerk reaction of Labour to "ban" guns when in fact it was a Chief Constable who granted the Dunblane murderer a licence against advice - and the Tories softly, softly gun amnesties in the past that have failed to tackle the problem and failed the public.
Perhaps if you ever become an MP Kevin, you will have the courage to not go along with your party line and demand that those caught carrying such weapons (or using them) are strung up by their goolies and flogged in public - and not that everyone else is subject to ever-tightening restrictions on their freedoms because the law is unable to deal with the offenders?
Perhaps your new Interpol Councillor Kevin will take it upon himself to get his chums in Kingston Police to get their act together?
With today's news reporting a further 59 knife incidences over the weekend despite the current knife amnesty, what does Kevin Davis think is the answer to this problem as clearly the amnesty the Tories originally introduced is not working?
Anon 7.50
You obviously have not read the blog entry!
I have read your blog again and again and nowhere do you say what YOU would do to tackle the issue.
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