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Knives are used in 6 out of 10 violent crimes in the strathclyde police force area every year...
Around 7500 people were victims of knife crime in Glasgow in 2003...
Glasgow city centre is the only area in Scotland where police routinely carry metal detectors...
Knife carrying thugs are typically young men...
Police have caught children as young as 8! With knives ..Senior police officers admit it could take 15 years to tackle knife culture....
Shettleston MSP Frank McAveety produced photos of makeshift weapons inculding scissor blades taped to a broom handle,to demonstrate the extent of the problem during First ministers questions.... A&E consultant Rudy Crawford wants knife crime ranked along side cancer and heart disease as a health priority.
The answer to these frightening statistics is this and how meaningless it has proved to be..
1.Doubling the maximum custodial sentence for carrying a knife in public from 2-4 years...
2.Giving police the uncondtional power to arrest someone suspected of carrying a knife ...
3.increasing the minimum age for buying a knife from 16 ..to 18!..Are you shocked yet I bloody am!..