Talk about what matters to you on Teenville

Ashley · 15th July 2008, 01:30 AM

I thought it would be interesting to highlight the growing number of knifes and guns on the streets of not only London but England, mostly effecting teenagers. This is probably effecting a lot of people around the world too. The obvious growing of gangs in cities rural areas.

What do you guys think should be done about it?
Ideas on how to help combat it?
How to defuse gangs? Is having postcode violence, right? How do you leave them? Think about the positions of everyone.
Was this all created out of boredom, if not what's the route cause?
Is this the fault of the government or a wider social issue?
Is it true they only pick on you because you look like them?
Are they idolising the wrong people?

I think one of the many ways suggested is to start to tackle it as a social health problem, opposed to a crime problem. That way you sort have to sort out all the problems around it, like social deprivation and imbalance, boredom, parenting issues. It should be dealt with as a whole family issue. This is one of many ideas that I've heard about.

I would like to pay homage to all those that have lost their life's in these terrible tragic losses. May all of them Rest in Peace.

Evgeni · 30th July 2008, 01:36 AM

Well, personaly I think fighting this problem has to start at higher levels. The laws and penalties which apply to posetion of weapons/stabbing/shooting/killing have to be changed. It is not acceptable a person who killed someone to be back on the streets 3 years later. Once the system starts working and teen criminals get put away in jail for good, people will think twice before attacking or even bringing a weapon out of the house.

p.s. It is quite unbelievable that with the amount of cameras everywhere theres hardly any activity on behalf of the police to put away teen gangs.

Ruby-Star · 30th July 2008, 08:06 PM

The amount of these teenage crime has increased RADICALLY!

Maybe these teenagers are doing this out of boredom or because they had problems at home [abused, etc] and now they are putting it out on the innocent teenagers out on the street. Also, peer pressure can be a problem too. People who don't actually want to do these things but as they forced or ridiculed, they have to do what their friends are doing.

England is becoming more dangerous and a lot of people are getting killed. In fact, my friend went to London two weeks ago and she told me that there was a lot of amount of missing people.

Also the government have to make thier penalties harsher, as said by Evgeni.

*tallie* · 18th August 2008, 05:19 PM

It happens on such a regular basis now, that the public are desensitised to it. We heard about a teen who died a few days ago, I think, and my initial response was "Oh, another one" Whereas last year it was OMG *shockhorror*

I think to stop it, the Government needs to have tougher laws and give control back to parents and teachers. Atm, a parent who tries to discipline can have the social called on them if the child/teen is savvy enough. Also teachers aren't really allowed to punish because it can 'hurt' their feelings. Laws that keep knife/guns on their persons should immediately get punished. Not just a slap on the wrist. Those who use it, instant jail for a decent time. Not just a 2month stint. I also think that stop putting up cctv cameras and get more police patrolling. Did you know that only 3% of crime has been solved using cctv. And thats from over 4 million cameras.

MrNiceGuy · 5th December 2008, 12:15 AM

It just isn't in the Uk . It is here in the US. I think they should totaly out law guns and only give them to police officers. Gun voilence these days are out of control. I go to a school were a student of ours was shot and killed. The violence needs to stop. Also we can't wait on our governments to say something. If we want some change we need to put some pressure on our leaders.

Ashley · 28th January 2009, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MrNiceGuy

It just isn't in the Uk . It is here in the US. I think they should totaly out law guns and only give them to police officers.

I agree, guns should be outlawed completely, and other weapons such as knifes, knuckle dusters etc. If there is war in the world there is a demand for weapons. For now i think the concentration should be stopping the guns from being imported into any given country in the first place. It ceases to amaze me that we live in a world with so much technology, thats not being used or developed fast enough to be able to give tighter security.

Governments need an independent technology panel, At least it would help productivity if anything!