NOEL GALLAGHER - GALLAGHER URGES LEADER BROWN TO ACT AGAINST U.K. KNIFE CRIME

Oasis rocker NOEL GALLAGHER has called on British Prime Minister GORDON BROWN to launch an urgent crackdown on the U.K.'s knife crime epidemic.
The Wonderwall star spoke out about Britain’s spiralling street violence in London on Friday (04Jul08).
He tells the BBC, "In my day, status was trying to be somebody, do you know what I mean? Not trying to kill somebody.
"I don't even know what (David) Cameron (U.K. Conservative leader) and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. I was watching a documentary on Panorama (U.K. TV show) and another one about kids carrying knives and violence."
And the guitarist blames today's children's lifestyle for numbing them to the horror of violence.
He adds, "(Youngsters have become) desensitised to crime because they're playing these video games, it's really, really scary."
His comments come after 18 teenagers were murdered in London since the beginning of 2008.
Victims of London's knife attacks include Harry Potter star Robert Knox, who was killed in May (08) after an altercation in a Sidcup, England nightclub, and Ben Kinsella, the 16-year-old brother of EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella.