Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Today's London and murdered teenagers

If you google the UK News, you can easily see the following news. Teenagers... killed by gunshots and knives in London. This evening, one more has been shot in Plaistow which is only 10 minutes drive from my place.


Teenager hurt in street shooting
BBC News - 2 hours ago
A teenager has been shot and seriously injured in east London, a few streets from where 15-year-old Adam Regis was killed last month.
Teenager shot near murder scene Guardian Unlimited
London teenager seriously wounded after shooting InTheNews.co.uk


Fresh Calls to Fight Gun Crime After Latest Teenage Shooting
ChristianToday - 35 minutes ago
A teenager has been seriously injured in an east London shooting incident, which took place just minutes from where youth Adam Regis was killed last month.
Man Arrested After 19-Year-Old Shot In London Life Style Extra
Teenager hurt in street shooting BBC News


Boy killed in knife attack
ITV.com - 25 minutes ago
Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with a gang knife attack that left one boy dead and another critically injured. A 13-year-old and a 19-year old are in custody in connection with the attacks.
Third arrest over teenager's stabbing Guardian Unlimited
Murdered boy had been stabbed before Independent

2 comments:

Mayvelous said...

What do you think is the cause of such incidents? Your post suspends me in mid air.
Why teens from London acting like that? Lack of education? Parental guidance? political instabilities? What are the reasons? Kinda leave me hanging.

Steve Evergreen said...

Well, I must admit I don't know. but lately, there is a rise of gun crimes and gang cultures in England where people are not allowed to get fire arms and even normal police never carry gun (contrary to USA).

Regarding parental control, after 18 of age, parents have traditionally no or less right to control their children. So forget about parental control. One time, Tony Blair encouraged parents to control their children to some extend, leading to a massive criticism from parents I think.

One thing is that Democracy is something like evidence based politics. After killing some people and happening some incidents, the new law normally emerged. For example, for new UK passport, the interview in person is required from May 2007 after found out that terrorists did many forged passports before 7/7 bombing in London.

So these incidents mean a new law is to come up. That's all. No special reason I think.