Should the British Gov employ Ninja stealth assassins to take out all these teen thugs who carry knives?

Question

Should the British Gov employ Ninja stealth assassins to take out all these teen thugs who carry knives?

Answer 1

Ninja stealth assassins are very expensive to hire. Perhaps the same result could be achieved through the usual kind of smashing. After all, they woud hav to be brought back to the mortal plane, and the plane fares there are terrible.

Answer 2

Yes.

Answer 3

yeah defo!

Answer 4

Bring back birching "its a pain thing".

Answer 5

In a sense although why be stealthy about it - whatever force bringing retribution is used, it is not only to disarm, but will completely prevent such a thing as knife crime using 'whatever' means - the term you use, 'take out', is presently the police force manhandling any perpetrators into custody and using lethal force where deemed necessary with the likes of a marksman....

...If stealth is employed, there's little doubt it would take a single trained assassin just a few days to quell any problematic area's knife crime [in conjunction with intelligence upon which to act].  If it is a nationwide crack team reporting to authority only when there is nothing left to do within the parameters of the objectives they are set on accomplishing, then knife crime would certainly cease quickly - but one sighting of a stealth assassin at work would [could] begin the worst period of violence in living memory.  Like a "Night of the Long Knives" turned upon every civilian man, woman and child as a criminal fraternity's threat safeguarding their choice to carry weapons and with it a reign of fear and the likelihood of civil war.

It hardly seems right that a person will nearly always already be a victim before the police are on the scene and taking matters into account - but what it is calling for & what so many immediately decry at the prospect is martial law.

  Ninja assassins working on behalf of the government are this, but doing it on the quiet - some people would assert right away that it would be terrible [& all the more so] to be British if that happened :(

It's a dilemma - the answer should be universal but people will always claim a unique case demanding individual attention.

In essence it would be a frequently aired public service announcement on all channels coming from the government stating they are to use such an initiative, reminding people that if they do not hang around outside at night, do not carry a knife on their person and do not fraternise with people that do - then they will never encounter a ninja assassin ending their thuggery, while those who do will be rooted out so efficiently that it will be like the broadcast was a telephone call to say "he's waiting outside with the engine running, hurry up, coh! you'd be late for your own funeral...."

Answer 6

no as it would be too expensive.  Instead they should get all the fox hunters to switch to motorbikes and hunt them.

Urban Ned hunting: and it would keep jobs in the countryside too.

Answer 7

yes why not

Answer 8

You mean we should kill people who kill people in order to teach people that killing people is wrong?  That's an interesting thought.  And a demented one...

Answer 9

LOL of course

Answer 10

they'd be better off taking out Mugabe. as for the thugs just give the police guns and say "OK for the next 48 hours, we will ignore the law, just get rid of them"

Answer 11

Yes, along with drug dealers, rapists and muggers.