Why is there so much knife crime among youths?

Question

Why is there so much knife crime among youths?

Answer 1

Because they're easy to get hold of and it boosts there EGO. Then others feel oblidged to carry them in defence... it's a circle.. :(

Answer 2

Cowardice and sheep flocking together, very sad when this sort of thing happens.

Answer 3

unluckily, teenagers think they're cool to carry knifes

Answer 4

Children killing children,guns and knives terrorising our streets, it because parents fail to bring up their children in the right way most of the children involve come from disfunctional homes, when children are brought up without fathers and no role model to follow thats what follows and when children bring up children (teenage pregnancy)

Answer 5

gotta blame the parents.....lack of good morals and discipline at home

Answer 6

coz luckally they cant get guns!

Answer 7

Because they think ( thats if they can think ) it makes them tough and they know that some bloody do gooder will stop the law doing their job.

Answer 8

You don't have to have a license to purchase a knife.  This makes knives readily accessible.  Compared to guns, knives are also cheap.  Even a little steak knife out of your kitchen cupboard is effective if you really want to hurt somebody.  Knives are also silent weapons compared to guns.  What's the sound of a stab wound compared to a gun going off and the neighbor calls the police because she heard a shot?  Using a knife is more sinister than using a gun, too.  With a gun, it's simply "bang."  With a knife you can cut, carve, dismember, disembowel, slash, rip, dissect, etc.

Answer 9

do you you mean,BLACK YOUTH.

Answer 10

because the media are high lighting it all the time and making it look cool.  

Answer 11

Because they are not afraid of going to jail in this country... its like a country club full of old friends.

Put the wasters in a real prison with 23 hour lockdown and a diet of rice and water.

When they have a taste of that they will think twice about going back!