Results are in!

My survey got some nice reponses, I am hoping to build on the opinions of everyone else now and hopefully create FACT. The amount of people who voted on each answer is marked next to it.

1) What sex are you?
- Male IIIIIIIIIIIIII
- Female IIIIIIIII

2) Do you or anyone you know carry a knife?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIII

3) If there were no laws against carrying a knife or stabbing anyone, would you carry one?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIIII

4) If yes, then why?
- Protection IIIIIIII
- To look cool
- To stab anyone who does anything wrong II
- Because other people would be III
Other _________________________

5) Have you seen either Kidulthood or Adulthood?
- Yes IIIIIIIIIIII
- No IIIIIIIIIII

6) If yes, did you feel an attraction to carrying a knife after the film?
- Yes IIIIIIII
- No IIII

7) When reading or hearing about another knife crime victim, what would be your top reaction?
- "Poor soul" IIIIIIIIIII
- "The person probably deserved it" IIII
- "I'm scared it might happen to me" IIIIIIII
- "I'll carry a knife then as well"

I find it alarming that most of the people who took the survey and knew someone who carried a knife were male. Most of the people who answered that they would carry a knife if the laws weren't there were male too, possibly giving the knife epidemic a stereotype that it is mostly young males.

It was disturbing to find out that most of the time people would carry a knife just for protection, young people feeling they are not safe on the street is not what this country should have to put up with and it needs to be put to a stop. Most of the candidates that had seen the films 'Adulthood' and 'Kidulthood' did feel an attraction to carrying a knife due to the glamourisation of a knife in the films.

Put your hands up if you are blaming knife crime on the media?

Over the few years in which knife crime has increased within the young community, many people have commented on what they thought was the reason for the recent epidemic. With films, music and games being the most common.

Actor, Sir Richard Attenborough, believes it is the American gangster films that are to blame due to knives seeming normal making viewers desensitised to real life crime as the graphic images from on screen are so frequent. He added that modern cinema has created a culture where teenagers and young adults are no longer shocked by weapons. Thirty years ago, a weapon was pulled out during a film and the audience would gasp in a state of shock, nowadays, the audience wouldn't have any reaction as they see it as normal. This cinema experience reflects onto reality as knives aren't seen as a huge thing when teenagers carry them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1038361/Violent-movies-blame-knife-crime-wave-blasts-Sir-Richard-Attenborough.html

London (awesome guy) Mayor Of London blames the video games that this generation of young people favour. His aim is to show young people that the characters in video games aren't their idols and to push positive idols onto them so their behaviour reflects their idol.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/30932/Violent-games-encourage-knife-crime-says-Boris-Johnson