So, it transpires that the chap who got stabbed after starting a gang fight in McDonald’s in Oxford Street was a gangland cunt, who’d raped a girl (is “moll” the term for girls who unwisely date gangsters and then screw them over?) and burned her with acid in a revenge attack [*], as well as stabbing some other daft fuckwit in a gang fight.
This a) exactly what I predicted would be the case as soon as I heard the story and b) why I don’t give a shit, and you shouldn’t give a shit, about gangland crime – it happens to people who utterly brought it on themselves. If you don’t want to be shot, stabbed or raped and burned with acid by gangsters, then don’t join a gang, don’t shoot or stab people, and don’t date gangsters. Obviously you might still end up shot, stabbed or raped, but you’re decreasing your chances by around two orders of magnitude…
Meanwhile, knife crime overall continues to fall, although daft propaganda from hysterical maniacs remains on the rise. Amusing feature from the “fuck me, criminals are shit” file: knife crimes are twice as likely to cause injury as gun crimes. Maybe the banning of pistols has actually had a positive impact on crime reduction, ensuring that kids who do have guns have got no fucking clue about how to use the things…
[*] I’d happily bet £500 that the gang-raping-and-acid-burning transpires to be horrible punishment for someone who’s fucked over a gang, not the ludicrous “proto-CSI using acid to hide DNA” nonsense that the tabloids have made up and are spreading as True Fact. Sadly, William Hill don’t think it’s an appropriate subject for wagers…
