This is just stupid. It just adds to the bile I've already built up over the beeb's report on banning sharp knives in kitchens.

"given the current media pushed bollocks in the UK"

Fixed that for him.

Forget the air stab we should be banning vodka shots etc .. these not only lead to binge drinking but encourage the use of firearms whilst doing so.

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A bit tasteless, don't you think? ;)

Make guns legal.

It works like this. They'll still attack each other but instead of wounding they'll just kill each other, which means fewer injured idiots straining the A&E department, which in turn leads to less money being used up to save idiots who'll just be in again next week. Reduced strain on limited funding means that it can be more effectively distributed, saving money, reducing the costs and letting the NHS fund more livfe-saving treatments for cancer patients and so on. I just saved the NHS! Where's my consultancy fee?

I guess these would be found in the 'Street Crime' section of the shoe shop! :)

who buys nikes anyhows? they are awful! or am i just getting old???

You'll take my anthrax laden assault trainers when your pry them off my cold, dead feet!

Knife crime will continue to increase becouse as a nation we are incompetent.

Why do children commit crime?

They are bored. Get home from school, nobodies about, nothing to do, bored of their games, bored of school, bored of the humdrum pointlessness of it all. Nothing to do.

They go hang out with their mate. It's a laugh.

They and their mates become bored. They make some fun.

They drink, take drugs and come up with ways to make things more interesting, berating passers by, acting tough.

This behaviour ups the ante, other groups of bored teens looking to look tough go around looking for groups to have a barny with. Verbal starts, violence breaks out, people get a kicking, people go home.

Groups of kids get home, bit hurt, bit bruised, want some payback, want some protection, want a penis extension. They get weapons, next time they're out they're tooled up. Run into another group again, this time the weapons scare the other guys a way, someone takes a thrashing from a bike chain.

The other group gets tooled up, now you're looking at full grown parties, seige mentality kicks in, people protecting their turf, the kid and their mates are well full of themselves by now, harrasing folk, being tough, smashing windows, doing their thing. One day some guy f--ks them off, he fights back or doesn't hand over his junk. Guy gets killed. That's that. Or tehy meet another group and it all gets out of hand.

Society stopped taking responsibility. Locking folk up wont stop that cycle, but it's the only way for many, their too deep into the mentality, the siege and terretorial mentality, it's a base instinct after all and infects the mind pretty quick. You go from a normal person to a predatory pack member in days.

The problem? Nothing to do.

The biggest solutions would be after school clubs (as they have in Japan and to an extent in the states - where you are expected to join a club, the clubs are run by students and mentored by a teacher) but in Britain we'd never give students that kind of freedom or responsibility and schools just a dungeon anyway. Western society presses the idea that being good and intelligent are undesirable traits, it stresses that aggression and rebellion are the ways to get what you want.

The second solution is more out of school clubs and facilities, but the problem here is 2 fold, cost - our government would sooner spend 20 billion on ID cards then 4 billion on after school and weekend activities.

The second problem being that we have become obsessed with the notion of sex offenders, nobody wants to work with children accept people who have little credibility with them and think very much inside the box and government requirments makes those who may be interested in helping unable to do so. As someone mentioned on another thread about a village judo school.

A general problem is the media and society being willing to be retarded - as this article once again proves.

People need hobbies, obsessions, distractions - sports, science, litrature, games, technology. They need like minded people, but it's too late for most teenagers, for our school system, for the future.

When Tony Blair said "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" we believed him, but it seems his concept of cause was freedom not opportunity.

O well, what ever.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7511192.stm

Yeah, a 10% reduction in crime is such a big problem.

Johnny 5 was a killbot, he had a Nike swoosh on him, so clearly they have links to violent bringers of lasery-death.

The dastards.

56 fatal stabbings in London alone?

While it's obviously horrific to the families of the deceased, the truth is, Britain is still a very safe place, if you're in such a tizz about that figure.

56 dead sounds like a bad (yet not uncommon) Friday night at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital (Johannesburg, South Africa). One night, one hospital. And half of those would have been gunshots, not knives.

One of my paramedic friends told me of the exchange program they had with an English hospital. The paramedic they got was very fearful/excited when they were called out to a GSW on his first trip. He'd only ever attended to one of these in all his years in England.

By the end of the first evening, he'd seen so many that he became as blasé as the South African paramedics.

Air Stabilisers, when I was a kid I had a pair of stabs on my bike and had the piss taken out of me. But when I was a kid I had the piss taken out of me for my bacon 2.99 trainers with the authentic hard plastic on tarmac slap. I think Mothercare should re-brand their toddler walkabout as deluxe child stabilisers, maybe something a bit shorter.

This is getting stupid . Whats next are Blizz going to remove my backstab ability ? oh nooooeeeessss !

"With the current gun and knife epidemic that is sweeping our country we would expect retailers to be taking a more sensitive approach to promoting products to a young and impressionable market.”

Actually, there aren't any statistics for knife crime that show such a trend, since police only started recording "knife crime" last year. And today was the first time such figures have been released.

"Because this is the first time we have such data this says nothing about the trend in such crime," said the Home Office's Scientific Advisor Paul Wiles.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL1754092020080717

The swoosh on Nike shoes reminds me of a machete and I would feel threatened if I were at Terminal 5 with a passenger wearing them.

Not sure which would be worse, that or a Transformers T-shirt.

Well, they *will* be having problems with their bike range now if any Daily Mail hacks read El Reg.

...often use high PR value "outrages" like this to raise the profile of the charity itself. I can't really say I blame them.

This particular instance however is, I have to say, cock of the poppiest variety.

I'm still waiting for the Swiss Army Shoe.

I'm suprised the country isn't panicked at the thought of all the kiddies playing about with the 'blades' on their xbox interface.

I demand the implementation of newspeak immediately to put an end to all of these problems.

Also, when did the amount of knife and gun crime reach "epidemic" levels?