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Don’t try to think this one through.
The logic fail and sheer volume of absurdity might just make you sick if you do.
For the UK – whose laws and policies all-too-often influence those of the U.S. – gun control isn’t enough. Probably nothing will ever be enough.
Police departments in the UK, urging people to give up their blades, including those from the kitchen, are literally advising people to NOT to become a victim by NOT defending themselves:
Don’t be a victim
If you feel you are in immediate danger from knife crime there are a number of steps you can take to protect yourself:
• Move away from the situation towards a public place (shop, house, restaurant etc.) as quickly as possible.
• Make as much noise as you can.
• Instead of carrying a knife, carry a personal alarm.
• Don’t fight back.
The right to bear arms might be under attack here in America–but in the United Kingdom, police are trying to do something even more ridiculous: they’re attempting to ban knives.
The British police have recently joined forces with liberal grassroots activists in the UK, launching the “Save a Life–Surrender Your Knife” program. Knife crime has been climbing recently in major UK cities like London.
The program involved several weeks of “amnesty” for “pointed knives.” Civilians can turn in these apparently dangerous weapons at their local police station in exchange for “amnesty,” apparently, even though knives (rounded or pointed) aren’t illegal in the United Kingdom.
There is, however, a ban on people under 18 buying knives – going so far on the absurdity scale as to ban underage purchases of plastic knives! No joke. One woman in her 20s was even barred from buying spoons without proper ID:
Since knives are used for food preparation and many other basic and essential activities, and virtually any crude material can be transformed into a knife, even police admit the “amnesty” for turning in knives will do nothing to stop knife crimes (but it will do a great deal for instilling a mentality of helplessness while heaping on more and more rules).
originally posted by: boymonkey74
We can have any type of knife If we have a valid reason.
originally posted by: boymonkey74
I remember being a lad and when someone pulled a knife it was frounded upon as being low and cowardly we liked a good scrap but didn't want to kill anyone.
originally posted by: boymonkey74
Sigh.
We can have any type of knife If we have a valid reason.
Carrying in one in town on a friday night while getting drunk is not a valid reason.
Our cops know when it is okay to have a knife.
I was carrying a 20 inch machete strapped to my backpack at a train station while on my way wild camping and two coppers came up to me and the younger one said I shouldn't have it but the older one just asked me why I had it and I explained my camping trip he was satisfied and said have a safe trip.
They are not making it illegal to carry knives at all.
www.gov.uk...