10000 march in London rally against knife and gun crime

[g3tr00t3d]

who were they rallying against? the criminals?

[AndyPandy110]

All I see is a lot of people asking to be the next victims of gun and knife carriers. Criminals do not follow the law only victims follow the law.

To stop this type of crime, all we have to do is ban guns and knives, then criminals will happily hand then over and we will all be safe.

Wait a minuet we tried that with the guns and guess what only the legal guns were handed over. So lets ban knives and see how many illegal knives are handed over.

[LavaMountainKat]

they should ban guns! oh wait...they already did that...

[biped1of1pandemonium]

looks like a madcap parade of asylumn escapees to me.

[wissn2112]

I didn't know objects commited crime?

[MetalKangaroo]

Trevor Philips (who is black and head of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights) admitted that, "Knife crime is being partly fuelled by a brutalised generation of refugee children who have come to Britain from vicious war-torn regions of Africa.. You look at the names of those who are involved, they come from Congo, they come from east Africa and so on"

Knife crime 'fuelled by brutalised refugees' from war-torn regions of Africa", Daily Telegraph (Google it).

[somalifighta]

thats bullshit afro carribeans started all this shit then other blacks copied and now we see white and asians doing it

[PuffyAmiYumi]

I really wanted to go to this as I was in London on that day. Sadly a friend of mine said "We don't have time" not that we were doing anything more important. Kind of resentful of that slightly, as this is an important issue & I'm passionate about it. Everyone's aware of the fact that this has been going on far longer than the news has reported, but the shocking rise of knife & gun crime in recent times, we need all the attention we can get on this issue. I hope this march kicks sense into them.

[TheBritishWatcher]

Good video, this march should of got more media attention to the build up of it to encourage more to take part.

If 2 million can turnout in London to march against a war in Iraq, youd think more would want to turn out to stop the deaths of our own young people in this country.

Say NO to knives.

[Guncriminal]

Marching in the street isn't going to prevent anything. Nor does diverting the police from doing their proper job help matters, either.

[TheBritishWatcher]

Guncriminal on a day 11 people were killed by a legal gun owner in a country with soft gun restrictions i dont think we should take what you say seriously.

Most recent gun shootings..

Finland - 2008 - 11 killed

USA - 2008 - 6 killed / 2007 - 33 killed

UK - 1996 - 17 killed.

So lets have none of your crap about what you think is a positive step forward. 10000s taking to the streets to protest against such violence and keep it in the headlines and demand action is a positive thing

[TheBritishWatcher]

Most recent major school gun shootings*

[Guncriminal]

Sob stories are no basis for rational lawmaking. Self-defence, however, is.

As I said, marching in the street doesn't prevent anything, and everyone knows about this issue by now, so let's stop flogging the dead horse. Mass movement doesn't "prove" anything and the government has made enough stupid/oppressive laws already. It doesn't need help.

[TheBritishWatcher]

Im sorry but you are mistaken, keeping this issue in the media helps force the governmetn to take more action. yes id support some more oppressive laws :)

Again we both have very different views on self defence. People take knives out on the streets saying they want to defend themselves, that is totally unacceptable and they are breaking the law. Like it or not, people MUST obey the law.

Lawmaking isnt just done on sob stories, they look at FACTS and the US proves guns are a bad thing.

[AburraHeat]

Quite right Guncriminal, if you ban guns only the criminals will have them.