| Britain has currently got a knife amnesty in place. This | | | | Luckily for me the youths ran off with my friend |
| where people are able to hand in their knives without | | | | lying on the floor in agony. As I reached him I noticed |
| the fear of prosecution, the amnesty is in place until | | | | that there was blood on the pavement at the place |
| the end of June. The hope is that it will reduce the | | | | where he was lay. I asked him if he was OK and he |
| amount of crimes involving knives including of course | | | | said that he was. He had been stabbed in the |
| murders. The last amnesty was very successful | | | | stomach or chest area but had not realised. He |
| according to the latest reports and one can only | | | | thought that he had only been punched. |
| hope that this latest attempt also proves to be a | | | | We managed to get him to the hospital where we |
| success. Something needs to be done as I am | | | | later found out that he had been very lucky, even |
| hearing about more and more deaths at the hands of | | | | though he did have a punctured lung. |
| this knife culture and the problem seems to be | | | | Even to this day which is years later, I find it hard to |
| getting out of control. | | | | understand why the person decided to stab my |
| I have had personal experience about Britains knife | | | | friend. Why was a few punches not enough for him? |
| culture. When I was about eighteen years of age I | | | | It was not as if he was in any danger himself as |
| went out for a few drinks with a number of my | | | | there was four men against one. If he had killed my |
| close friends. We all ending up getting quite drunk and | | | | friend he could have been looking at a long stretch in |
| I ended up walking home with three of these friends. | | | | prison and would have to live with the knowledge |
| On the way home we passed a group of four men | | | | that he has killed a man for the rest of his life. |
| all in their twenties. They pushed passed us in an | | | | My advice to people is to leave your knives at home. |
| aggressive way making a number of nasty | | | | By carrying a knife you could end a persons life, ruin |
| comments at the same time. | | | | the lives of that persons family and friends and even |
| Despite being rather worse for wear, myself and my | | | | ruin your own life. |
| friends did not react. We were however very | | | | Over the last weekend, I have read about three |
| shocked as only a few moments later these four | | | | murders on the streets of Britain via knife stabbings. |
| youths started to run towards us in quite a | | | | I can not truly believe that the people carrying these |
| frightening way. We all started to run but one of my | | | | knives left their houses with the intention to kill. The |
| friends stumbled and fell over. I looked behind me | | | | act was possibly influenced by alcohol or by some |
| and saw that these four men had surrounded him | | | | troubles in their own life. The people involved are |
| and were starting to punch him. I was not really sure | | | | likely to seriously regret their actions only a short |
| what to do and was quite surprised to find myself | | | | time later. This however is too late for their victims. |
| going to his aid, rather brave or stupid I now think. | | | | |