Pen

October 11, 2007

Those are all the pens I own.

For one of those, a 16 year old schoolkid was murdered by a 14 year old classmate, with a knife, stabbed in the neck. It happened in Amsterdam-West, on a schoolyard my tram passes by. For a fcuking pen.

I mean, for an iPod, that I can understand. But for a pen?

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  1. Clearly knives should be banned.

    Comment by mikesum32 — October 11, 2007 @ 8:54 pm

  2. It’s outragous that untrained civilians should be allowed to carry knives over there. Especially ones that young.

    Comment by John S. — October 12, 2007 @ 6:42 am

  3. 1) it is infinitely easier to kill someone with a gun than with a contact weapon. The barrier to do so is simply lower. Not only technically, but also psychologically.

    2) Guns solely exist to kill people and animals. Knifes have infinitely more purposes - you know, like eating.

    3) Just because there are other ways to kill people, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t ban guns. With guns, there are x ways to kill people. Without guns, there are x-1 ways to kill people.

    In other words, the above two comments are utterly moronic.

    Comment by Administrator — October 12, 2007 @ 11:18 am

  4. So why do you care so much about guns then? You can fight the “foreign invaders” with knives, right?
    Tell that to Yamamoto.

    Comment by Stefan — October 12, 2007 @ 11:43 am

  5. Mikesum32 & John:
    Most types of knives ARE banned in The Netherlands.

    It’s just that we also want to eat ‘properly’ and thus can’t ban all knives… ;-)

    Comment by LoeZ — October 12, 2007 @ 1:18 pm

  6. I can’t even understand killing someone for an iPod. A fucking iPod!

    Society has failed.
    No amount of banning weapons or potential weapons will solve it.
    Fix society.

    Comment by John Drinkwater — October 12, 2007 @ 8:36 pm

  7. “In other words, the above two comments are utterly moronic.”

    Have you ever been in a knife fight? You underestimate the leathality of such a situation. If you ban guns, I have x-1 ways of defending myself. I’m no good with knives….

    Comment by Kevin Stallard — October 13, 2007 @ 7:36 pm

  8. I’m in favor of gun control, but not outright banning of them. The violence problems in the US are not due to guns… Canada has far more guns per capita than we do here, but far less violence. In Israel, there are huge numbers of 18-21 year olds who must carry guns at all times by law, but almost no violent crime (It’s national news when something happens).

    The problem is more likely to be James Bond: violenct brutality is enshrined as sexy, slick, and inviting. Education and responsibility are not. It doesn’t help that we have so poor family relations. It’s not gay marriage that’s breaking down the families; it’s the lack of pride. Parents don’t feel responsible for their kids and children don’t have any reverence for their parents. These kids who commit school violence are disturbed and the media blames the teachers and administrators for not doing anything, but where the heck were the parents?

    Comment by PlatformAgnostic — October 13, 2007 @ 7:56 pm

  9. Honestly, I’d like to see schools around the US adopt a zero tolerance policy towards bullying. If someone is harassing another student, force a public apology & give them a strict punishment, several days suspension, expel them etc….. I’m not saying the school shooters are right, they definitely have their problems, but being picked on by other students has been a common theme in these events. If you force students to treat others with respect, it would probably go a long way toward helping.

    Comment by John S. — October 13, 2007 @ 8:09 pm

  10. In generations past, neighborhoods were tight-knit, and the behavior of children reflected strongly on the reputation of the parents. Parents set their children straight in part because they wanted their friends and neighbors to think they were good people.

    These days, society is becoming progressively more detached, and there is a feeling amongst parents that nobody has the right to tell them how to raise their kids. There’s also the sense that a child’s poor behavior in school is not a reflection of bad parenting but of an overstimulating social environment for which the school should take responsibility.

    Some private evangelical schools have taken to using urinal-style dividers between desks and other means of keeping children from having disruptive interaction. If that doesn’t produce responsible, well-adjusted adults, I don’t know what will…

    Many parents have found that unrestricted TV and/or computer access is an effective means of pacifying their children at home. Why can’t the school simply set them in front of the idiot box and quit lecturing at parent-teacher conferences? After all, the value of school from the parents’ perspective is day care first and education second.

    The view of modern society from low Earth orbit has got to be a whole bunch of people pointing fingers at one another derisively.

    Comment by butters — October 14, 2007 @ 1:33 pm

  11. Maybe there was coke or weed in the pen. :-)

    Comment by Dimitar Uzunov — October 15, 2007 @ 7:16 pm

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