Stop giving daggers to retiring soldiers, says coroner after Somerset murders

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  1. rip1980 says

    If only they would have been wearing their florescent safety vests, this could all have been avoided.

  2. Karmasutra6901 says

    You can get the same result with a kitchen knife or a lawnmower blade. If nothing sharp was available then it might have been a pipe or a hammer.

  3. Haus42 says

    Is there a BBC police procedural called “Somerset Murders?” If not, it sure sounds like one.

  4. ravs1973 says

    Yes he could have used something different if he didn’t have the dagger, the question is, would he?

    The army takes people and makes them into killers, soldiers are conditioned into accepting that killing with a weapon given to them by the state is justified. Is it such a leap to think that spitting the soldiers out at the other end and handing them a weapon might occasionally have consequences?

  5. Kayback2 says

    Thank you for your service when we trusted you with machine guns, grenades, tanks and bombs but you don’t get a glorified butter knife on retirement because once someone was naughty with one and you can’t be trusted.

  6. FixSwords says

    If he hadn’t been issued the dagger, there’s absolutely no way he could’ve found such a dangerous weapon somewhere else like in his kitchen.

    The Senior Coroner comments there are mind-bogglingly stupid.

  7. theRose90 says

    Not giving them knives is easier than admitting that veterans go through severe mental duress and come out of it with psychological issues which need treatment.

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