Cutting Edge

I suspect the Brits are suffering pangs of nostalgia for the good old days of gun-control.

So much easier to implement than the civilizational work of self-control.

Knife violence in Britain is edging out terrorism as law enforcements top priority. Headlines and hospitals are crowded with blood soaked youth. Savagery appears to be in season.

Among the proposals to combat this reversion to the feral the Prime Minister will launch an advertising campaign to “discourage” young people from stabbing one another as a form of conflict resolution. And for those of limited imagination a program acquainting perpetrators with the effects of their handiwork on the human anatomy. There´ll be interventions (an ominously vague term) with families whose children are at “risk”. Those families that refuse help will be “threatened with eviction” from their public housing, we may have to rethink that. Perhaps we could start with smashing their pets skulls on a rock.

In addition to these innovations we may consider providing a somewhat traditional moral education. Assuming we can agree on the difference between right and wrong.