Face the facts: Asbos

Is it just me or are too many people dying these days? I want to think it is just my imagination and that people have always died like this but every time I seem to be nearer a conclusion, someone else dies around me. The most disturbing thing about this whole thing is that most of the dead are people younger than me and are all getting stabbed over trivial things like phones, ipods and the likes.
Just the other week, a 14 year old boy was bunking off school when the quad bike he had stolen was run over by a car. I know you might want to think he was killed while doing the wrong thing but that is not an excuse for such a young life to be lost. I was still trying to get over this death when I heard that another kid had been stabbed to death just because he won’t let go of his phone. The thought that came to mind was one of disgust. To imagine a life was lost just for a phone. I can only imagine how hard it will be for the parents on the dead to take that in.
Anytime the issue of knife crime and anti social behaviour is raised, it always seems like the blame is pinned on the rap culture. People in high places keep shying away from the responsibility of tackling the issue and always seem to be trying to put punishment in place that do not stop these crimes. And like that was not bad enough, the stigma that is meant to go with the punishment is worn like a badge of honour i.e. ASBOs
I am almost a hundred percent sure that almost everyone outside “the hip hop world” will be quick to blame the guns, violence and carefree lifestyle that are glorified in hip hop music but my stubbornness will not let me agree with them. I cannot help arguing that a good upbringing will instil the necessary morals in children that will lead a good majority of them to making the right decision even if they are surrounded by all the wrong influences. I once read somewhere that if you raise up your child the way he should go, when he or she grows up, he will not depart from that way. I read that from the greatest book ever put together, the Bible.
Don’t get me wrong and think I am acquitting hip hop of any blame. What I am trying to say is that although it is contributing a great deal to the situation, other factors that are contributing just as much should not be ignored but all necessary steps should be taken to put an end to these unnecessary deaths. Something has to be done.