What Can Be Done To Stop This.

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Another attack in London.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4729682/Police-called-acid-attack-East-London.html

Short of banning the sale completely what can be done to prevent these attacks.?


Dave.

[EDDIE51]

As acids are essential in many industrial / commercial processes it is impossible to ban the sale of them. Something like rust remover,descaler, paint stripper is just as bad if misused. Cars and vans are also becoming 'weapons of choice' for terrorist attacks.
The only solution I can see is to treat acid attack in the same way a gun / sword / knife attack would be treated. With life imprisonment as a sentence.

[-Talbot-]

Catch them, throw acid at them and lock them up for 20 years

[Kromovaracun]

The only solution is more community policing. So long as police are not a visible presence on the street, these people are going to be plenty confident that they won' be caught, so deterrence through punishment/additional sentencing will have no effect.

[david small]

Draconian punishment and public shaming of them and their friends and families.

[waterboatman]

Make it an automatic life sentence...and I mean life!

[TWR]

Would it be against their HR for these evil so & so's to serve their sentence in an other country away from their families the poor souls?

[mikey4444]

These attacks are called acid attacks but we don't know for sure exactly what the fluid is in all cases. Any of us can look under our sink, or behind the toilet, and find a corrosive substance, so I can't see that banning anything is going to work.

[Guilbert53]

Sadly it seems to be one of those thing that we have "imported" with our mass immigration.

An almost unknown crime in the UK many years ago, but very common in India and Pakistan for years.

Sadly one of the reasons why I now hate living in England (even though I loved England for much of my life).

[anotheoldgit]

Guilbert53

Totality agree, Multi Racism/Multiculturalism, has a lot to answer for.
Thank goodness I can still remember how this great country once was, before all the problems that we see today.

[Cloverjo]

Indians and Pakistanis have been coming here for decades. That has nothing to do with this horrific crime.

[ummmm]

You keep saying that, AOG, but where did you live? Not in the slums I gather!!!

[EDDIE51]

Wow 8 answers before someone introduced the usual immigrants argument! Is this a record?

[gingejbee]

cloverjo...but a terrific opportunity to link the two, if you have that mindset...

[ummmm]

No, it's not a record, sadly.

[anotheoldgit]

EDDIE51

Not in the least, these days it is generally introduced from answer number one.

[Cloverjo]

Yes, probably by you, AOG!

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// You keep saying that, AOG, but where did you live? Not in the slums I gather!!! ///

Thankfully not, but even in the slums of yesteryear, yes they had their own particular problems, mainly due to poor housing and unemployment, but they were a close knit society and never experienced the outrages that we 'ALL' witness today.

[hc4361]

15 years (10 in custody) for this acid attacker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40717086

8 years
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/face-thug-jailed-straight-outta-10253757

Carrying any form of acid without good reason should be an offence but of course it would be difficult to prove. That's why the gangsters like it as a weapon, it's not illegal to carry and the packaging is easy to dispose of.

[hc4361]

AOG, I haven't been witness to any outrage, just read and heard about them in the news.

[anotheoldgit]

Cloverjo
/// Yes, probably by you, AOG! ///

Wrong again, I did not introduce it this time, and the few who dare and are still left on this mainly liberal leftie site, are still not afraid to speak the truth, from question one.