I think the media have a fixation with guns in America, don't get me wrong it's a terrible situation, but surely there is political agendas behind this other than the media actually caring. So why do i say that, well if you consider the population of the UK is what around 70M and the US around 326M, then they dwarf us in comparison...yet we have a higher murder rate in London then places like New York, the closest in population terms that you can draw an equivalent 8.5-9M people.
So why does this lot not make more frequent news and sensational headlines as in comparison to our American cousins;
Fatal stabbings in London, 2018
- January 1 - Steve Frank Navarez-Jara, 20, Islington
- January 3 - Elizabeta Lacatusu, 44, Redbridge
- January 8 - Daniel Frederick, 34, died in Hackney
- January 9 - Dami Odeyingbo, 18, stabbed in Bromley
- January 11 - Harry Uzoka, 25, killed in Shepherd's Bush
- January 28 - Yaya Mbye, 26, stabbed in Stoke Newington
- January 29 - Juan Olmos Saca, 39, stabbed in Peckham
- January 31 - Khader Saleh, 25, stabbed at Wormwood Scrubs prison
- February 3 - Hassan Ozcan, 19, knifed in Barking
- February 3 - Kwabena Nelson, a youth worker, died after being stabbed near his home in Tottenham
- February 8 - Hannah Leonard, 55, stabbed in a flat in Camden
- February 11 - Sabri Chibani, 19, stabbed in Streatham
- February 13 - Saeeda Hussain, 54, was stabbed in Ilford
- February 14 - Lord Promise Nkenda, 17, stabbed in Canning Town
- February 18 - Lewis Blackman, 19, knifed in Kensington
- February 19 - Rotimi Oshibanjo, 26, stabbed in Southall
- February 20 - Sadiq Mohammed, 20, stabbed in Camden
- February 20 - Abdikarim Hassan, 17, stabbed in Camden
- February 25 - Michael Boyle, 44, stabbed in the chest
- March 1 - Christopher Beaumont, 42, stabbed in Hammersmith
- March 5 - Laura Figueira, 47, stabbed in Twickenham
- March 5 - Kelva Smith, 20, knifed in Croydon
- March 14 - Lyndon Davis, 18, stabbed in Chadwell Heath
- March 16 - Naomi Hersi, 36, found with stab wounds at hotel near Heathrow Airport
- March 17 - Russell Jones, 23, stabbed in Enfield
- March 18 - Tyrone Silcot, 41, stabbed in Hackney
- March 19 - Balbir Johal, 48, knifed in Southall
- March 19 - A 41-year-old was stabbed to death in Waltham Forest
- March 20 - Beniamin Pieknyi, 21, stabbed at Stratford shopping centre
- March 26 - David Potter, 50, stabbed in Tooting
- March 29 - Reece Tshoma, 23, stabbed in Plumstead
- March 30 - Leyla Mtumwa, 36, found with stab wounds at a home in Haringey
- April 1 - A 20-year-old was stabbed in Wandsworth
- April 4 - A 38-year-old man was stabbed at a house in Lewisham
- April 4 - Israel Ogunsola, 18, was stabbed to death in Hackney on 4 April. Police were alerted by a motorist and performed first aid but the teenager died at the scene
- April 5 - Five teenagers and one man were stabbed in London within a space of 24 hours. One of the victims was aged 13 and left fighting for his life
- April 9 - A man in his 70s was stabbed four times and robbed as he returned to his Harold Hill home after collecting his pension
- April 12 - A woman in her 20s was arrested after stabbing a man in Isle of Dogs on April 12, 2018.
- April 15 - A man named locally as Raul Nicolaie was knifed to death just before 6pmin Colindale, North London.
- April 15 - Samantha Clarke, 38, was stabbed to death in Brixton, South West London, just after 6.30pm and police arrested a man in his 20s.
- April 20 - Aaron Springett, 32, died after he was found collapsed in Morden, South West London, just before 1o.30pm. A 31-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder.
- April 21 - A man, 20, was stabbed to death in Finsbury Park, north London, as a leading surgeon warned of a "summer of carnage" in the capital
- May 17 - A man, 24, was stabbed to death in Crows Road, Barking at around 11.30pm.
