Posted on 01/25/2005 10:52:45 AM PST by Jim Verdolini
Blair told to act on knife crime
Relatives of victims in emotional appeal to PM
Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent Tuesday December 14, 2004 The Guardian
Families whose loved ones have been stabbed to death launched an emotional appeal yesterday, urging Tony Blair to jail those who carry knives as weapons for at least five years. Among those who went to Downing Street to hand in a letter to the prime minister were Jayne and Paul Walmsley - the parents of 14-year-old Luke Walmsley, who was stabbed in a Lincolnshire school last year - and Antoinette Rodney, the mother of Kieran Rodney-Davis, 15, who was knifed for his mobile phone in Fulham, south London, in June.
The relatives are backing a campaign by the independent charity, Victims of Crime Trust. It claims that a child dies from stab wounds every two weeks in the UK and that knife killings outstrip fatal shootings by three to one.
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They'll get my sarcasm when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
I missed it. When did they outlaw heads?
Must be a new breed of state enforced mandatory vegetarians.
Yes, but PETA likes chimps! :)
But they don't like us ...
They're racist!!
Cut those fingernails and remember... we'll catch you with the fingernail detector van.
The problem is that nasty little inner child- any civilized society should recognize this and attent to it appropriately. Yeah right!
They'll get my cold dead penis when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
That reminds me, never jerk off in a sealed meat locker.
WAY too much information!
(And if they manage to get it, I hope you're dead when it happens - OUCHIE!)
Both if they are over 2 inches. Then the 2inch one will have to registered.
One more that we've all forgotten about: Grocery bags. Just think of the danger there If they are placed in the wrong hands!
The zombies are taking over England. Cricket bats are next on the list.
Dude, you forgot 'words'! It's right up there with guns, by some standards.
Don't forget to ban pointed sticks and fresh fruit.
"The zombies are taking over England. Cricket bats are next on the list."
No, toy guns
"Shortly after the New Year Birmingham shootings, the Government announced a range of measures. They included a ban on the carrying of replica guns and air weapons in public. There will also be a five-year prison sentence for carrying a firearm, although judges may not always impose it."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/27/npc227.xml
"The zombies are taking over England. Cricket bats are next on the list."
No, toy guns
"Shortly after the New Year Birmingham shootings, the Government announced a range of measures. They included a ban on the carrying of replica guns and air weapons in public. There will also be a five-year prison sentence for carrying a firearm, although judges may not always impose it."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/27/npc227.xml
That's a foon! Sporks have three prongs, foons have four prongs.
Got to ban those hammers and criminalize all carpenters and home improvement types.
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