Axel Rudakubana - living with parents or not?

It is a very smart deflection by the government and media to switch the focus from terrorism to his ability to purchase the knife online. Whilst I am in no doubt the online sale of such items to under 18s needs to be addressed, I do not personally see this issue as a zero sum game with regards to Axel. I may be alone on that here, but looking at the results of today's Find Out Now poll in the wake of Southport, I think that is unlikely.
I don't see it as deflection, he was not a terrorist because of where he came from or his skin colour, in fact he had no links to religious fundamentalism. He was more like the deranged types who carry out school shootings in the US. But knives (and poisonous sites on the internet) will always be available. I suspect loads of kids take knives into school with little or no punishment if they are caught.
 
What? The same UK government headed by a bloke, that hasn't even spoke to him by telephone yet?

Poor horn-smoking effort if ever I saw one. Quite the opposite.

Probably the other way around ;)

Poor Uk government who has not yet recievef there invitation to fly to Washington to do a bit of brown nosing / horn smoking with cap in hand

Mind you they could always seek some advice from Mandelson on the subject :giggle: of horn smoking / brown !!!!!!!!!!!

Starmer and Lammy already attempted some brown nosing at trumps private residence ;)
 
Fair enough. I thought you were making some comparison between the legal cases against Donald Trump and the Southport murderer.

No
Not at all as such

Merely about drawing conclusions prior to the facts being known

All guilty of that to an extent

But some in here seem to think they are above it :ROFLMAO:
 
Don't be so sure. He'll be down on his knees, soon as Starmer mentions him brown nosing up to our royalty again. You'll see.

Hardly the same noseall

Starmer is desperately hoping he is the first in the que for an audience with Trump :giggle:

In order to get it be might use a royal visit as sweetener :giggle:

But he will
Be packing his shoe shine box so he can shine up trumps shoes

As opposed to his past colleague and friend ( :giggle:) Corbyn who would have gone to Moscow to shine poo tins shoes:giggle:
 
I suspect loads of kids take knives into school with little or no punishment if they are caught

I worked in a secondary school in Southwark in the early 2000's.

The caretaker asked me if I was carrying a knife.

On my person, no.

You're in the minority here then, was his reply.

(As it happened, the kids that we passed by were all very polite).
 
I suspect either you don't have kids, or have not been anywhere near a school in years?
I've never had personal experience of knife crime at school in any capacity, but the guidance of randomly googled Notts CC suggests possession of a knife is a 101 call if no immediate threat


The sentencing council guidelines for pupils charged suggested non custodial sentence in cases where it is "a fleeting incident and no/ minimal distress" with mitigating factors including "participated in offence due to bullying etc". Further personal mitigating circumstances include:

  • Particularly young or immature child or young person
  • Mental health concerns
  • Unstable upbringing

(In other words the mental health of the child carrying the weapon is a mitigating factor in his/her case)


I am not saying these factors would have let off Axle or prevented him from what he did, but it is certainly seems possible for a child to bring a knife into school and not be excluded or even charged with an offence.

This is backed by an OFSTED paper from 2019. Look at para. 47 and 57, which suggest that in some schools at least exclusion is a last resort. I suspect they are inner city schools with big knife carrying problems


Would be interested to learn of your experiences if different.
 
I don't see it as deflection, he was not a terrorist because of where he came from or his skin colour, in fact he had no links to religious fundamentalism. He was more like the deranged types who carry out school shootings in the US. But knives (and poisonous sites on the internet) will always be available. I suspect loads of kids take knives into school with little or no punishment if they are caught.
His skin colour has nothing to do with it in my mind. His religion is an unknown. It is the terrorist manual, the making of the ricin and the armoury of weapons which screams terrorism to me. Also, characteristics of the attack; not gang related nor a personal vendetta, as the victims were unknown to him.
 
His skin colour has nothing to do with it in my mind. His religion is an unknown. It is the terrorist manual, the making of the ricin and the armoury of weapons which screams terrorism to me. Also, characteristics of the attack; not gang related nor a personal vendetta, as the victims were unknown to him.
No different from a person with documented mental health problems buying a gun in the States, it's a means to an end.
 
No different from a person with documented mental health problems buying a gun in the States, it's a means to an end.
I don't buy the generic 'mental health problems' sweep away. Lots of people suffer with their mental health but they don't go out and do this. I said on a different thread about whether he had been diagnosed for psychopathy or not prior to his killing spree, I can see nothing about that in the available news at the moment though.
 
His skin colour has nothing to do with it in my mind. His religion is an unknown. It is the terrorist manual, the making of the ricin and the armoury of weapons which screams terrorism to me. Also, characteristics of the attack; not gang related nor a personal vendetta, as the victims were unknown to him.

He did not meet the definition of terrorism, as was stated.

The definition of terrorism was not altered to ensure that his crimes did not meet it.

Just because you want something to be a certain way, does not make it be a certain way.
 
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