Searches for weapons are useless because those polititians
refuse to consider that this is a matter of the human heart. You need to be immoral to be able to stab another person. A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen. The prisons are full of home-made weapons constructed, with the aid of evil intent, from the most innocent things. Do they seriously propose to ban knives, to force us to eat with plastic cutlery at home? On this dim logic, it can't be long before kitchen shops are forbidden to sell knives without demanding background checks.
Ok he is probably right up to this point but then the argument degenerates into an attack on 1960's liberalism and as he puts it "freedom to do exactly as you like."
and according to Peter
The less advantaged, who have quite reasonably taken their cue from the better-off, better-educated 1968ers, don't even feel the need to explain that anyone who gets in their way is bad. They just swear at them, and if that's not effective enough, or enjoyable enough, they hit them in the face and kick their heads as if they were footballs.
Now to a point one can agree but to put the blame on 60's liberalism is wrong.Nope the problem lies with the roots laid down in the 1980's where the work and individulist culture took hold.The offspring of this era are the ones causing the problem and partly that is down to the winner takes all Thatcherite mentality.
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