Schools in England have been given the legal right to search students who are suspected of carrying knives.
See full knife search story on The Times online
What do you think? Good idea?
Head teachers will be given guidance on how to use airport-style metal detectors to screen young people.
The guidelines state that a pupil can be refused entry to a school if he or she refuses to be screened.
Education Secretary Alan Johnson said knife-carrying in schools was rare, but it was illegal and a message it would not be tolerated must be sent out.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Ban sales of knives: hunting, combat, machetes, fantasy
Law-abiding people won't mind (that much) seeking a licence for knives that can be used as lethal weapons.
There should be a record of who owns which lethal knife and why they own it. Why not?
Why shouldn’t people buying a hunting knife have to have a licence, just the same as a hunter needs a licence to buy a gun?
Barbara Dunne, founder of Mothers Against Knives, is pressing to get knives off English streets.
You can read her comments by visiting The Sun website: Understand the devastation that knife crime causes
This harks back to my initial calls - stop selling knives so freely in our shops, put them behind locked counters, screen the buyers etc - like we do for cigarette consumers.
Keep thinking, consider your actions... everyone.
There should be a record of who owns which lethal knife and why they own it. Why not?
Why shouldn’t people buying a hunting knife have to have a licence, just the same as a hunter needs a licence to buy a gun?
Barbara Dunne, founder of Mothers Against Knives, is pressing to get knives off English streets.
You can read her comments by visiting The Sun website: Understand the devastation that knife crime causes
This harks back to my initial calls - stop selling knives so freely in our shops, put them behind locked counters, screen the buyers etc - like we do for cigarette consumers.
Keep thinking, consider your actions... everyone.
Monday, April 09, 2007
How to deal with such mad violence...?!
All this violence continues...
BBC News: Stabbed Paul Erahon, aged 14, was victim of bullies
Metro: Dying Paul asked knife killer: How could you do this?
Paul is the seventh Londoner under 16 to be murdered since the end of January... Seventh! Utter madness.
Evening Standard: Shooting of pregnant 22-year-old Krystal Hart
There is a kind of immoral sensationalism as you watch the media roll out attention-grabbing headlines at these awful times. Two precious lives are dead - yet papers want to sell, tv news wants viewers etc.
On the positive side, we are part of the same community, the same society - most of us are deeply saddened and upset by such tragedy, and this depraved use of weapons. By watching and reading, it (hopefully) motivates us to do something to change things for the better. We are in the majority - it's about using our power more effectively, I'm sure.
I was trying to think more, meditating a little more while reading over the last few Easter days.
Putting this blog together, looking at knife + gun websites and related news has often made me determined - but also frequently angry and frustrated.
To deal with this, perhaps a state of mind is called for at times. I came up with five words: quiet, peaceable, determined, charitable and pitiful.
What do you think?
Developing these, I hope they can be added focus for our thoughts that further develop and push forward everybody's knife + gun campaigning efforts.
We will, however, always remember those who were killed. Always.
BBC News: Stabbed Paul Erahon, aged 14, was victim of bullies
Metro: Dying Paul asked knife killer: How could you do this?
Paul is the seventh Londoner under 16 to be murdered since the end of January... Seventh! Utter madness.
Evening Standard: Shooting of pregnant 22-year-old Krystal Hart
There is a kind of immoral sensationalism as you watch the media roll out attention-grabbing headlines at these awful times. Two precious lives are dead - yet papers want to sell, tv news wants viewers etc.
On the positive side, we are part of the same community, the same society - most of us are deeply saddened and upset by such tragedy, and this depraved use of weapons. By watching and reading, it (hopefully) motivates us to do something to change things for the better. We are in the majority - it's about using our power more effectively, I'm sure.
I was trying to think more, meditating a little more while reading over the last few Easter days.
Putting this blog together, looking at knife + gun websites and related news has often made me determined - but also frequently angry and frustrated.
To deal with this, perhaps a state of mind is called for at times. I came up with five words: quiet, peaceable, determined, charitable and pitiful.
What do you think?
Developing these, I hope they can be added focus for our thoughts that further develop and push forward everybody's knife + gun campaigning efforts.
We will, however, always remember those who were killed. Always.
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