The Daily Mail reports on the high cost of living in a society where self defense is considered barbaric and actively discouraged and crime a symptom of societal or political inequality. The English have allowed a decade of neo-Socialism to make them little more than unguarded children relying on the non-existent benevolence of the state to protect them from those who prey upon the defenseless.

In this climate the draconian gun laws in England are largely irrelevant as gangs of criminals with no regard for the law or human life will use whatever available, knives, sticks and in one recent murder stones, to attack a weak and compliant public with little fear of punishment and no fear of retaliation.

From the Mail:

Labour’s record on knife crime was again under scrutiny yesterday after it was revealed that an offense involving a knife is committed every 24 minutes.

Figures from 37 police forces, published by the Mail on Sunday, showed there were 5,500 serious crimes involving knives in just three months this year.

The statistic equates to one every 24 minutes, around the clock, and includes 55 knife-related murders, more than 2,000 stabbings and almost 2,500 muggings at knife point.

The Tories immediately criticized the Government for ignoring the true extent of the knife problem on Britain’s streets and claimed its denial of the seriousness of the issue was adding to the problem.

Critics also pointed the finger at Labour for failing to enact tougher measures against perpetrators of knife crime, and insisted they needed to take the issue far more seriously.

Shadow home secretary David Davis claimed the figures showed the Government was in denial.

He said: “These shocking figures betray the desperate state of violent crime under this Government.”

There’s a handy and colorful crime map for those of you contemplating a visit to those bloody, shadowed shores. As you’d expect the English have found a man with Absolute Moral Authority to put forward a very typically English “solution” to this plague of violent miscreants:

After we lost our son, we were helped by Tom’s law firm Linklaters to set up a trust in his name and have raised more than £1 million to date.

The aim is to help disadvantaged children and young people by providing them with educational and vocational training opportunities they might never otherwise receive.

We also wanted to tackle and prevent the root causes of violent gang culture and street crime.

One of the charities we support is the WAVE Trust (Worldwide Alternatives to ViolencE).

WAVE is dedicated to advancing awareness of the root causes of violence; as without understanding why people act, how can we ever hope to reduce violent crime?

In 2005, it produced a report called Violence And What To Do About It.

According to its findings, “A violent act results from an interaction between two components: an individual’s propensity to violence (personal factors) and external triggers (social factors).

“In the absence of a weapon, a trigger is harmless.”

The research revealed that “the propensity to violence develops primarily from wrong treatment before the age of three”.

Of course. If only the state could step in and raise everyones children for them, as well as enacting some tough knife control laws (after all, there’s no reason the average person should need a set of knives in their kitchen. They can cut their steaks with plastic ware) then violent gangs will no longer find preying on people who aren’t capable of defending themselves or their family appealing. It’s so simple.

People who think a ban on weapons can stop crime have never seen a street fight, where broken bottles, sticks and any object at hand becomes a weapon. They also underestimate the human capacity for both evil and sadism. It doesn’t occur to people like the grieving father above, who is deserving of all our sympathy, that violence exists sans tools.

They live in a fantasy world where banning knives would stop people from being stabbed, seemingly unaware of the millions of homemade knives made of toothbrushes and disposable razors that are made in prisons world wide.

They live in a safe, secure world where heavy blunt objects and sharp pointy things can be safely stowed in government run danger houses while the rest of the world is covered in pillows and glitter that magically transform rapists and murders into soft cuddly teddy bears.

In short they’re sheltered. The English government aided by a Marxist dominated media are happy to keep them in the dark, to tell them that their children are dying because of social inequity not because there are violent gangs comprised of people who like being violent and who will commit crimes as long as they think they won’t be punished severely. And many people like being sheltered, they like thinking that if they embrace non-violence that violence will never touch them.

It’s another fantasy indulged in by people who call themselves “peace activists” but in the real world are known by their true name: Victims.

Steyn talks about fantasy based interpretations of reality in this magnificent piece. Read it and see how it applies to our friends in the United Kingdom.

Lionheart has a a streets eye view of the political ramifications of England’s criminal appeasing policies, as well as this important post as to the fate of all peoples who refuse to defend their families and communities.

When it comes down to life and death, you have two options. The first is to be a victim the second is to be self-reliant:

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I agree with this young woman, and any rational person would as well.

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