Southport Attack

  • Why did a teenager kill kids?

    The furore has subsided over riots that broke out at the end of July, but what now following an ugly turn of events following a stabbing incident against children in Southport?

    The safety of children is a concern because of the teenager involved who targeted minors. It doesn’t justify the unrest that followed, but it warrants further inquiry into it.

    The choice is strange, and the incident is horrifying. The mind of a younger person shouldn’t be set in such a way as it shouldn’t follow a kids group is a trigger.

    Yet, Axel Rudakubana struck out and killed and injured children and adults during a dance class. This is a classic instance of crime making no sense, as it usually is.

    It’s the way of a criminal to do things that are odd, or strange acts. It’s because they think about it and it results in crimes that include choices we don’t make.

    The adulthood of Rudakubana will be filled with guilt for what he’s done, but his age isn’t important to working out a response to it now as much as his set of choices.

    The fact is we make choices at a young age or old, but it’s not youth that should alert us to the types of thoughts people have. It can be irrelevant to what we think of.

  • Who are the Southport kids?

    The stabbing attack in Southport has rocked a nation.

    In short order riots led by agitator’s erupted in neighbourhoods and spread across the UK. The fact remains children were at the centre of the initial incident and not thugs on streets.

    Sadly three lives were lost and eight were injured alongside a few adults. The narrative so far is the UK is sinking into a far-right whirlpool of public disorder but an incident such as this warrants further comment about the age of its victims.

    The context is hardly enlightening. It’s the target themselves who are the point.

    The reasons for political agitation are part of a long-running dispute between street activists and journalistic personalities. The tit-for-tat is the usual tattle of a separate class.

    Yet this incident isn’t a likely occurrence in the UK.

    If it wasn’t to indulge a sadistic sort of rage that a young man has, why did a normal boy by all appearances seek to do it? The facts and stats about this young man’s life may yet reveal more about the steps he took to a horrible act.

    It still remains that children’s lives were lost in a terrible tragedy.

    The focus is on these and not yobbish behaviour.