Noel Gallagher has called on Gordon Brown for urgent crackdown on UK knife crime
Filed Under: Celebrity | By: Kerry Chubb
Jul 07, 2008 | Comments 1
It has been reported that Noel Gallagher has called on the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to launch an urgent crackdown on the U.K.’s knife crime epidemic. Noel has said that Britain’s street violence is getting out of control and needs sorting now.
Noel said that “In my day, status was trying to be somebody, do you know what I mean? Not trying to kill somebody. I don’t even know what (David) Cameron (U.K. Conservative leader) and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. I was watching a documentary on Panorama (U.K TV show) and another one about kids carrying knives and violence”.
It’s said that Noel blames today’s children’s lifestyle for numbing them to the horror of violence. I think that there are a number of video games that are very bad and one game that has had some affect on children is call of duty 4 and the reason I am saying this is because my nephew had a brick thrown at his head and the boy that done it said that it was a grenade from the game. What will be next?
Noel said that “(Youngsters have become) desensitised to crime because they’re playing these video games, it’s really, really scary”.
Victims of London’s knife attacks include Harry Potter star Robert Knox, who was killed in May (08) and Ben Kinsella, the 16-year-old brother of EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella.
Do you think that more needs to be done to stop this crime on the streets?
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Yes, absolutely something needs to be done. I’m in Australia, and there are major, and escalating, problems with drinking-related violence over here. It’s not just violent video games that are to blame – every night on the TV there are CSI/police/etc shows about murderers and violent behaviour, including some truly shocking sexual crimes, and graphic portrayal of crimes against children, and all at normal viewing times. It has become a new kind of “normal” to see these things going on, and if it’s normal on TV, it eventually gets accepted as normal for everyday life as well. And, while the adults who are watching, and indeed writing, these tv shows can have a balanced view of them as separate from normal life, the kids that are now being brought up on this stuff are going to be affected in an unpredictable and terrible way. A whole generation of kids who are desensitized to violence, and have greater access to drugs and booze, is going to create immense problems. I wonder, once someone is desensitized to something, is it ever possible for them to become re-sensitized again? I doubt it. It’s a one-way street that I fear we will be unable to turn back from until it’s too late.