Mothers Against Violence - Voice of sanity

With London in the grip of spiralling knife violence horror, a voice of sanity has emerged amidst all the knee-jerk political and media hysteria: "Mothers Against Violence." MAV is a voluntary group of women whose members have been personally affected by gun violence.

In the last ten days alone there have been nine stabbings in the streets of London, six of them fatal.  New figures obtained by BBC London from the Metropolitan police show that while there have been 39 teenage murders in London since January 2007, there have been 69 people under the age of 25 who have been killed in the same period.  These statistics show that mortal street violence is perpetrated by the young against the young.

The MAV spokeswoman on last night's Newsnight programme stated: "Families build communities."  Children emulate their parents and behave according to the example set by their immediate family members.  The long-term solution lies in the family.

There is very little to add to this.  Families are the solution, not some inanimate government, council, social worker or some other state sponsored initiative.  The bleeding-heart liberals of course have always had a problem of portraying families as a preferred state of existance, because they can't bring themselves to agree with what most people know is that the best place for a child to grow up is a traditional family with a clear sense of responsibility and the sense of right and wrong.