ihavenotyetfiguredoutanything:

proctain:

siryouarebeingmocked:

alaija:

cisnowflake:

denied-par-vollen:

cisnowflake:

strict-constitutionalist:

ar-gangbang:

Beyond parody.

No way.

Yanks claim that knife crime will just replace gun crime if guns are banned, but then mock the UK for trying to restrict knives as well. When will they admit they just have a dangerous obsession with weapons?

I think you’re missing the point. If you heavily restrict guns and people just move to knives, as they have in London, what do you think happens when you heavily restrict knives? You can infringe on peoples freedoms as much as you’d like but it wont make them any less violent.

If you don’t see the problem with making it harder for people to get a basic kitchen utensil because it could be used to hurt others I don’t know what to tell you. What’s next? Hammers? Baseball bats? Motor vehicles? Mag lights? Razors? Pointy sticks? Rocks? The list could go on forever. You could coat everything the the whole of the UK in Nerf foam and people would still beat each other to to death with their bear hands. Maybe it’s better to address what motivates people to act violently rather than banning any and every potential tool they could use to enact that violence?

You may want to look up Australia’s One Punch laws @denied-par-vollen

The way our laws work not only are there prohibited weapons, but anything that could be used as a weapon becomes illegal if they can show you have it for that purpose.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/judge-calls-for-5-levy-on-kitchen-knives-to-reduce-teen-stabbings-a3900136.html

>Judge Madge has already proposed grinding down the sharp point of knives, and now believes a tax would help combat the stabbing epidemic he dubbed a “public health emergency”. 

> (…) Judge Madge said eight or 10-inch knives with a pointed blade — which a butcher, fishmonger, or chef may occasionally but “rarely” use — are the weapons that can cause the most damage. He added: “Why can’t all those with any role — manufacturers, shops, police, local authorities, the Government — act together to reduce the sale of long pointed knives and provide an alternative of knives with rounded ends? 

It’s…it’s actually worse than the headline.

Keep in mind, you already have to be 18 to buy a knife in the UK.

Even butter knives because they are a kind of knife

London man, having his arm hacked off with a meat cleaver: wow I’m sure glad it’s not a pointy knife

Not to mention some pointy object alternatives!

Gang members know there are advantages in using acid to hurt someone rather than a knife because “the charges are more serious if you are caught with a knife and the tariff for prison sentences are much higher”.

Dr Harding added that “acid is likely to attract a ‘GBH with intent’ charge while using a knife is more likely to lead to the attacker being charged with attempted murder”

(And no, further restricting access to common cleaning products seems unlikely to address any of the root problems here, any more than placing age restrictions on scissors and paring knives has done so far.)