[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

When i was at the village school in the 60s/70s we had gangs of kids fighting with hatchets at the school gates at lunch time and a good friend of mine was stabbed 3 times (and survived). This was at one of the best schools in glasgow

True, to be fair my dad grew up in Glasgow in the 60's and he once nostalgically from a train window pointed out a bridge to me, "where he was cornered and someone stabbed him with a screwdriver" when he was 14. It missed his liver by millimeters! He said it so casually.

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

True, to be fair my dad grew up in Glasgow in the 60's and he once nostalgically from a train window pointed out a bridge to me, "where he was cornered and someone stabbed him with a screwdriver" when he was 14. It missed his liver by millimeters! He said it so casually.

glasgow was known as the knife capital of europe back then, but the authorities did a lot to make the streets safer

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

glasgow was known as the knife capital of europe back then, but the authorities did a lot to make the streets safer

Obviously gun crime can do a lot more damage but there's something really vicious and terrifying about knife crime

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

When i was at the village school in the 60s/70s we had gangs of kids fighting with hatchets at the school gates at lunch time and a good friend of mine was stabbed 3 times (and survived). This was at one of the best schools in glasgow

Yes the 70s in East Kilbride all kids knew all the gangs and their leaders and where the next bit scrap would be and of course we all grew up fighting the local catholic schools every week whilst that was mostly bottles and the like quite a few would get chibbed with a screwdriver or machete. The Big gang fights always involved razors, knives and machetes.

The Tongs, Baltic Fleet, Cumbie, Fleeto. Its just as bad now in Glasgow

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Yes the 70s in East Kilbride all kids knew all the gangs and their leaders and where the next bit scrap would be and of course we all grew up fighting the local catholic schools every week whilst that was mostly bottles and the like quite a few would get chibbed with a screwdriver or machete. The Big gang fights always involved razors, knives and machetes.

The Tongs, Baltic Fleet, Cumbie, Fleeto. Its just as bad now in Glasgow

Main difference in Glasgow these days is gentrification. The center is very different and safe now (as much as any city is safe) and a lot of the previously rough council areas are gentrified and verging on middle class now, but the issues aren't "gone" they've just been shifted out of certain areas.

Ayrshire is the same of course - houses going for Ł200k on streets that you wouldn't have walked down alone at night when I was a teenager 20 years ago, but the problems are still there, they're just shifted out of those old council estates that have been all bought up, and into the bigger towns.

[Glenn.]

Brianna Ghey killing: possible hate crime is one line of inquiry, say police

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ansphobic-hate

[arista]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

Brianna Ghey killing: possible hate crime is one line of inquiry, say police

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ansphobic-hate

Yes keeping the Evil Boy and Evil Girl
longer arrested.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Isnt murder always a hate crime?

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

Brianna Ghey killing: possible hate crime is one line of inquiry, say police

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ansphobic-hate

Wow

They’re good


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[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Isnt murder always a hate crime?

Hate crime
The law recognises five types of hate crime on the basis of:

Race
Religion
Disability
Sexual orientation
Transgender identity
Any crime can be prosecuted as a hate crime if the offender has either:

demonstrated hostility based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity
Or

been motivated by hostility based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity

[parmnion]

Religion

People who believe in god get so many insults hurled at them.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Religion

People who believe in god get so many insults hurled at them.

Religion and transgenderism are both protected characteristics, despite being based on fictional beliefs; biological sex is not recognised as a category for hate crimes

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

no that is the "trans activists" who do that

I still cant get over this if I stood around with a sign saying decapitate ....’insert any form of life’ ....I would be arrested for sure

[Liam-]

Such a waste of a life, hopefully the two killers get what they deserve for allowing their hatred to turn to murder

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I still cant get over this if I stood around with a sign saying decapitate ....’insert any form of life’ ....I would be arrested for sure

And publicly named and shamed, probably lose your job as well.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I still cant get over this if I stood around with a sign saying decapitate ....’insert any form of life’ ....I would be arrested for sure

THE two smiling hags in front are labour msps

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by parmnion

And publicly named and shamed, probably lose your job as well.

Most likely

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

THE two smiling hags in front are labour msps

oh wonderful

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Such a waste of a life, hopefully the two killers get what they deserve for allowing their hatred to turn to murder

I presume they are blaming each other hence the extra time taken to charge them

[Cherie]

A GoFundMe crowdfunding page set up to help Brianna’s family passed Ł69,000 in donations on Tuesday to help pay for her funeral, which will be “pink and colourful to match her personality”.

What a wonderful country we live in

[arista]

Ch4HDnews was just
Live at a Vigil in Liverpool

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

A GoFundMe crowdfunding page set up to help Brianna’s family passed Ł69,000 in donations on Tuesday to help pay for her funeral, which will be “pink and colourful to match her personality”.

What a wonderful country we live in

Yes that is Great News for the family.



It is so tragic
that the Evil Boy with a Evil Girl
stabbed her to death.

[Jordan.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

A GoFundMe crowdfunding page set up to help Brianna’s family passed Ł69,000 in donations on Tuesday to help pay for her funeral, which will be “pink and colourful to match her personality”.

What a wonderful country we live in

Let's just hope we can start being kinder towards transpeople BEFORE they're brutally murdered.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

Let's just hope we can start being kinder towards transpeople BEFORE they're brutally murdered.

Literally no one in their right mind would disagree with that.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

Let's just hope we can start being kinder towards transpeople BEFORE they're brutally murdered.

or people in general

who make up 99.9% of murders

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

Let's just hope we can start being kinder towards transpeople BEFORE they're brutally murdered.

To whom do you refer by "we"? What do you mean by "kinder"?