ICYMI| As if we needed any more evidence that society as a whole, all across the globe, is collapsing in on itself, here is a story coming to us from our closest ally across the pond, England.
Even though guns are essentially banned in the UK, that has not stopped criminals from finding other tools to use in their efforts to impose their will on other though violence and force.
The weapon of choice this time? a knife.
Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit reports:
‘Conservative British MP Sir David Amess Dies After Stabbing Attack on Eastwood Road in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex.
David Amess was stabbed multiple times at meeting with constituents in a church.
Paramedics worked to save the politician on the floor of a Essex church for more than an hour but he could not be saved after the appalling attack
The Standard reported — Sir David, a Brexiteer veteran MP who has voted against gay marriage and abortion, was seen laughing and speaking to people on the steps of the church just minutes before he was knifed, PA reported.’
Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died after a stabbing attack on Eastwood Road in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex
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— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) October 15, 2021
BREAKING: Sir David Amess MP has been stabbed in Leigh-on-Sea today.
The Tory MP for Southend West was holding his surgery at the Belfairs Methodist Church, in Eastwood Road North when a man reportedly ran into the church and stabbed him “several times".
Photos by Lee J. pic.twitter.com/ndLYftEe9S
— Your Southend (@YourSouthend) October 15, 2021
Police on the scene
Police officers at the scene where Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died pic.twitter.com/E7QrZPuU3h
— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 15, 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded to the senseless murder: