Your say: Five years of slaughter (From News Shopper)

Your say: Five years of slaughter

12:16pm Friday 27th June 2008 in

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IN the past five years 22 young people have been killed in the News Shopper circulation area.

All of them with so much to give. All killed before they had time to realise their potential.

The News Shopper area has had to bear more than its fair share of killings - we've chosen to look at the last five years but we could have gone back further and dredged up dozens more of these senseless attacks.

Anyone can recognise that carrying a knife or gun is wrong - that's the easy part. What's more difficult is doing something about it.

After the recent killings of Jimmy Mizen and Rob Knox our website was overwhelmed with comments from readers, so now, we're asking you for more.

We want your ideas on how to stem the free flow of blood on our streets.

For our part, we will take the material you supply us with to the very top. We will gather every comment, every suggestion, every idea you come up with and put it straight in the hands of home secretary Jacqui Smith.

We're also running an online poll to establish which one single measure you feel would make the biggest difference to this issue. This is a unique opportunity for you to tell the people running the country what you would like to see happen - use it.

Make sure you add your comments to this story and others in our Voices Against Violence section.

Or to discuss the issues raised by the campaign visit our online forums

To see our map showing all the killings click here