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First, London and then the rest of the UK have been on a years-long experiment to end knife violence. And we’ve been making fun of them as criminals deprived of other means have taken to using knives on people their government has disarmed.
Laser pointer, sharp bladed pointy things, and just pull the trigger. Not something that I’d want to have the north end of such a device pointing at me. Or as the post says: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should,”. Actually, I’m kinda …
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Police in England have been publishing pictures of seized knives. You know, the way cops show you guns or drugs or whatever. But there’s a problem. They think the images are scaring the locals, so they’re going to stop doing that.
Knives, clubbings, and cars each kill more people annually in the US than scary rifles™. But there’s no Bloomberg-funded Mom’s Demand Action for Knife Sense. What gives?
Four times as many people were killed with knives and sharp objects than hammers and clubs. And more people were killed with hammers, bats, and clubs than rifles. That’s all rifles, not just the scary black ones.
The British side of this is that they had problems with guns so this land that gave birth to the most free country in history decided it needed gun control. And more gun control, and then stepped on the gas even more. We on this side of the pond said “Law of Unintended Consequences! When …
A few days Back we shared news from across the “pond.” Stores in Britain were discontinuing sales of kitchen knives. Knife crime, assault, and murder are so prevalent that they don’t want to get swept up as complicit. The problem is so bad that one MP has suggested putting GPS trackers in ever knife in Britain.
The topic of knife-bans in England has not graced our pages for a few months. But back in April and June of last year, we pondered the problem. Kitchen knives are the weapon of choice for murder in the UK. To avoid the PR nightmare, some supermarket chains have stopped selling them.
England took away the guns, so the criminals turned to other tools. Knives have become quite popular among London’s criminals. Their use has made the city a murder capital to rival New York City.
To address London’s gun-less murder-surge Sadiq ‘Shakkah’ Kahn, the mayor of London, has implemented measures, including a police crackdown, on anyone out in public with a knife. His government is banning the home delivery of knives and acid.
