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Originally Posted by astmartins
@Kunjufu
I'm watch BBC news 24, and a chief constable is NOW talking about targeting gun importers, targeting those who distribute guns, to look at the policy of imitation firearms
My only beef is we still need to get to the root cause of our problems and i very much doubt the YT system can really do anything apart from keep throwing money down some irrelevant project which honestly hasn't worked...we as a people need to start by taking our responsibilities as parents more serious..the guns might go but then as someone said we might resort back to the days of using knives..
Lets not forget the chances of another person getting killed again in that part of Liverpool is very very slim now what are the chances of someone getting shot in Peckham or Brixton?
We need more people like Drogba who famously walked out during a press conference with the Italian media when one of them hadn't heard of the killings in Ivory Coast..
I remember both Black and White people crying for Damilola Taylor and we know how many young black kids have been killed since...if anything MGL has highlighted how YT system is saying this is how we care for our slain children what about you lot!!
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Astmartin: here's my point to you....I simply don't believe that as BLACK people we are NOT taking this seriously, that we are NOT doubling and redoubling our efforts with our children.. Sorry but that is just not true, i've got THREE children i a follow grown adult and two still in school.. and I know from my time in North & South London that you can't buy a place in supllimentary school.
I speak to parents who are scared for the children and work hard to ensure they are not the next statistics...the growing numbers of Africans and African carribeans sending their children HOME is also testiment that we taking it seriously....so to be honest I get pretty fed with people BLACK & WHITE talking as if BLACK people general are not alive to this issue..it is just NOT true!!!
As a parent and a professional i can say that the problem is not specific to Black people and moreover its not one problem but many issues plaguing this country, so yes whilst i think thier is a collective resposibility to keep all children focused, that won't solve nothing if you don't address the wider issue of accessiblity of guns, and the fear factors that forces many to have weapons for 'protection'.