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A house a few streets away got aggravatedly burgled the other night. The dad was sleeping on the couch, and had his car keys right near. He didn't wake up, and luckily he didn't, because the offenders had machetes. Does the government think every house has a machete amnesty box or something? Maybe it will make it slightly harder to get machetes, but I highly doubt the people who already have them and use them for malicious intent would give them up anyway.
Anyway, I get kids are kids and there is the potential for retribution. But I think there definitely needs to be harsher penalties for them. I really hope there is some reform soon. In schools, sometimes kids face little consequences for their actions, and it seems that way in society too.
an older teenager with a machete is just as dangerous as an adult with a machete.
This isn't kids being kids. This is young people with anti-social tendencies. 99% of kids don't commit crimes like this.
In a confrontation they don't get special treatment just because they are young. They get treated just like anyone else with a deadly weapon. Sorry, I would shoot if I had a gun.
And this is not burglary, it's aggravated burglary and they get long prison sentences for that shit.
The people who broke into the house a bit away were not found. But it is absolutely horrifying to think what they could've done to the occupiers of the house.
It’s unsettling to know it happened so close to your house. Agree that machete ban is useless. It’s just for show, because the government wants to seem like they are doing something. If you have a teen that doesn’t care about getting caught for car jacking, aggravated burglary, stabbing, murdering, gang violence, then why would they care about something so minor as owning a machete. It’s nothing by comparison.
There needs to be both effective deterrent and effective rehab, ie jail and education and support programs. But that costs money, better that innocent people get attacked and if they are lucky escape with lifetime ptsd, if not just die via machete murder. The world is depressing.