#livesnotknives

This week, starting on the 22nd of July, Leicestershire Police have launched the campaign #livesnotknives. Personally, I think this campaign could not have come at a better time given everything that is going on and I fully back what they are trying to achieve. 

Just as a 'for instance'- imagine you have a child who has just turned 16. He goes out with his friends one evening and doesn't return home. You wait up all night until the next morning and phone the police to report him as missing, the police launch a missing persons plea and then you have to sit and wait for one of two phone calls. You receive the phone call you really didn't want to, your little boy, the boy you grew inside you for 9 months and you've helped and watched grow for 16 years' body has been found. He has been stabbed multiple times. How would you feel? Your world would come crashing down around you, you wouldn't know how to feel. Distraught, angry, helpless...

Now imagine making someone else feel that way. Making them feel like there is nothing to live for, tearing their world apart... and for what? What exactly would stabbing and murdering someone achieve? Do you think your friends would think that you look cool? To feel superior? Taking someone else's life is murder, you could face 12-15 years in prison- 10 years on good behaviour. Would it be worth it? If you ever feel the need to hurt someone in that way, you need to remember those two things 1) how would you feel if someone took your loved one away from you in such a brutal way? 2) is it really worth facing time behind bars and losing up to 15 years of your life in a cell.

Even if you are caught just carrying a knife, you could face 4 years in prison. 

Choose lives not knives. Make the right choice. 

Thank you for reading! 

B x