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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the carrying of knives in response to a spate of stabbings that pushed the city's murder rate past New York's for the "first time in modern history."
Khan deployed an additional 300 Metropolitan Police officers over the weekend to work exclusively against knife crime, urging them to be more "confident" in their authority to stop anyone suspected of carrying a weapon.
"What you will see over the course of the next few weeks and months — is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months — which is stop-and-search based on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon going up, more arrests as a consequence of this intelligence-led stop-and-search going up and hopefully our city becoming safer," the mayor said Saturday, according to The Telegraph.
Khan also issued a warning to would-be knife carriers, saying they should think twice before bringing one out in public — whatever the reason.
"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan said on Twitter. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/london-murder-rate-knives/
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 09 2018, @01:17PM (5 children)
Actually, the majority of those killed by Stalin were not Russians. Let's see - there were Armenians, Azerbaijani, Belarussians, Estonians, Georgians, Kazakhstani, Kyrgystans, Latvians, Lithuanians, Moldovans, Tajikstani, Turkmenistani, Ukrainians, and Uzbekstani - and those are just the official members of the USSR, not counting the client nations. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-the-ussr-1434459 [thoughtco.com]
More here - http://www.wisegeek.org/which-countries-were-part-of-the-soviet-union.htm [wisegeek.org]
Sattelite nations included Poland, East German, Czechoslovakia, Hungry, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
It may also interest you to know that Stalin was not a Russian at all. Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili 18 December 1878 Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire Note the "empire" portion of that birthplace - he wasn't born "Russian", any more than a Jew was born a Roman.
Now, you've made me kinda curious. Did Stalin kill as many Georgians, proportionately, as he killed other people? Or, did he go easy on his kin?
As for Hitler - he killed a fair number of his fellow Germans. Have you forgotten Jews, Gypsies, political opponents, homosexuals, mental deficients, and probably more that I can't think of at the moment? I really fail to see your "big difference". Maybe you can explain it better.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @02:09PM (2 children)
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was Georgian.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @02:11PM (1 child)
I should read the entire comment before replying, though.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 09 2018, @03:34PM
:^)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:57PM (1 child)
Those living under Stalin's rule were (loosely) called Russian. One cannot go into individual nationalities and geographical areas and cities.
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-kill-1111789 [ibtimes.com]
Your whitewashing of history is not going well although you tried.
"he killed a fair number of his fellow Germans"
Please link me to reliable sources for the above. Real history, as opposed to propaganda and court history. Your accusations are serious, so the evidence better be real good and reliable.
And going back to your original statement: "Hitler and Stalin were so very much alike, in so many ways."
Please enumerate those many ways that Hitler and Stalin were alike. Stalin was hated and feared during his rule. Hitler was loved and respected very much during his brief period of leadership. Hitler was one of the greatest men who ever lived.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @11:47PM
Please enumerate those many ways that Hitler and Stalin were alike.
1. moustaches
2. too little military training
3. slight personality disorders
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