The government want to introduce mandatory sentences of 25 years for knife crime murders. Is the vulgar corollary to this idea, that this will put the wind up the little shits that carry knives? Knife crime is heinous and ugly, but isn't all murder?

This law defies rationality. So, if someone kicks, bludgeons, suffocates or shoots someone to death will their crime be considered qualititatively less malicious than a knife murder? Will the sociopathic tearway think 'Hang on. Let's not do 'im with a knife 'cos I'll never get out before my 40th birthday'? Well, that's the logic of Jack Staw's suggestion. We are all repelled by knife crime, but even more repellent is a criminal justice system that makes no allowance for personal redemption on the part of those that commit these terrible crimes.

Idiotic, idiotic, idiotic....

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