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 you think you have gotten rid of all the guns, you’ll get another problem”.
And so they did. Knives. And more knives…and then even more. As the number of guns into law abiding citizens’ hands decreased (and criminals still have them), knife crimes went up. So, yet again, the same slippery slope: “long” knives (no, not long guns / rifles, but machete types, and swords (in the land of Excaliber for gosh sakes!), then smaller knives became illegal. Even steak knives were looked at with great scrutiny as being the next (and I did see a couple of articles really getting dumbed down to paring knives). And now bats and batons have taken over.
Who knew?
Meanwhile on the American side of the pond, the reality TV show (the second pic below London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan who was just ignored by the Queen during Trump’s recently completed visit) Forged In Fire really is a thing – TMEW and I watch it all the time where they bring in amateur and professional bladesmiths to create a knife with various caveats / parameters in forges they set up on TV. Eventually, two of the four contestants “win” the first three rounds of competition (e.g., “does that weird steel we gave you actually look like the type of knife we told you to make, did you complete the knife’s handled, and can it survive a number of tests our experts put it through?) are sent home to their HOME based forges to make some kind of either short or long edged weapon from the past (in either 4 or 5 days) to come back for another round of tests to win $10,000.
So Britain can’t control its knives while America lifts up those that make their own at home for fun and profit – what a COUNTRY!
(H/T: Powerline)
