6 Young Lives Ruined, Just What Is Going On Out There?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/teens-arrested-after-boy-13-stabbed-to-death-in-reading-12178841
Why are young people killing each other these days?

[royfromaus]

Bizarre, allen...bizarre

[ToraToraTora]

allen: "More so. Grown-ups fail to connect their massive and casual ALCOHOL abuse to the barbarism of drugs. It’s the same damned thing! " - err how? There is not an illegal gangster network supplying alcohol and killing each other off in Turf Wars? When was the last time Green King "Whacked" Wetherspoons? Not a valid comparison me old china.

[Jackdaw33]

Allen's zeal for the Temperance cause makes the Salvation Army look timid by comparison.

[ToraToraTora]

It's the lefty way, Illegal drugs, great, Booze bad!

[Theland]

The demise of Christianity in this country means the kids have nothing inside them as a moral compass to guide and restrain these kids.
You all wanted a brave new world? You got one!

[shoota]

Just like those Catholic Colombians eh?

[emmie]

i don't think that it having no moral compass that does this, its down to having no realisation, respect for human life, that plunging a knife into someone may well kill them, doesn;t seem to be on their minds. turf wars have been going on for years, but the difference now it seems as though its black on black crime. Not sure what's to be done, other than intervention in schools, but even that doesn't stop some joining gangs and getting into trouble

[Theland]

We are not in Columbia, and there's more to Christianity than hanging a cross around your neck.

[ToraToraTora]

TL I wouldn't use religion as an example if I was you, I think you'll find a lot of violence is committed in its name.

[Theland]

Exact?y what I said. No moral compass to restrain them.

[ToraToraTora]

you don't need to believe in fairy tales to have a moral compass.

[emmie]

admittedly its from 2018 but some stats for you

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7201715/map-london-gangs-territories/

[emmie]

drug wars have been going on for donkeys years, if people didn't take recreational drugs then there wouldn't be half the problems we have now. But they do, and the problem isn't getting any better

[royfromaus]

Theland
The demise of Christianity in this country means the kids have nothing inside them as a moral compass to guide and restrain these kids.
You all wanted a brave new world? You got one!
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You trying to out bizarre allen, Theland?

[Theland]

Year after year the attacks on decency intensify in the name of progress and enlightenment.
The vacuum left by the demise of Christianity has been filled with garbage. This is the result.

[ToraToraTora]

cobras TL, you are just using this tragedy to push your mumbo jumbo.

[emmie]

as i said this is nothing new, what they do about it is anyone's guess. just another young life lost..

[sevenOP]

"There is not an illegal gangster network supplying alcohol and killing each other off in Turf Wars?"

Prohibition in the USA between 17 Jan 1920 – 5 Dec 1933 led to very bad things:
https://themobmuseum.org/blog/top-ten-legacies-of-prohibition/

http://webpage.pace.edu/pp31462n/prohibition/gangsters.html

[ToraToraTora]

talking about today sevenop.

[emmie]

already said and provided a link to what the problem is, gangs in the capital are rife, and they are using these youngsters as mules to carry their wretched cargo down into the countryside, and beyond. Its not these days if you look back its been going for years.