Knife crime? Who are you kidding? What's next?

[Hondo]

Cracking down on knives to reduce knife crime. Now thats silly.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-1546667.html

What's next? Screwdriver crime? Spatula crime?

Got any idea at all how easy it is to fabricate a cutting or stabbing weapon out of damn near anything? The people that seek their use for evil purposes do.

[steve_spackman]

Cracking down on knives to reduce knife crime. Now thats silly.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-1546667.html

What's next? Screwdriver crime? Spatula crime?

Got any idea at all how easy it is to fabricate a cutting or stabbing weapon out of damn near anything? The people that seek their use for evil purposes do.

the british government banned guns and look how small gun crime is...

[Tazio]

Cracking down on knives to reduce knife crime. Now thats silly.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-1546667.html

What's next? Screwdriver crime? Spatula crime?

Got any idea at all how easy it is to fabricate a cutting or stabbing weapon out of damn near anything? The people that seek their use for evil purposes do.

Funny you should mention that I just bought a 5" Valor hunting knife which I wear leagally exposed in it's sheath.
I just moved to El Cajon, and their are some crazy rednecks Mo Fo's out here!

[Easy Drifter]

Remember Crocodile Dundee? 'You call that a knife. Now this is a knife.'
Many track workers carry hunting knifes.
I have kitchen knives that could do serious harm. Among others a boning knife, a chef's knife and a butcher's knife, all Henkels and razor sharp. Never been sharpened but steeled every use. All over 20 years old.

[Rollo]

Cracking down on knives to reduce knife crime. Now thats silly.
Got any idea at all how easy it is to fabricate a cutting or stabbing weapon out of damn near anything? The people that seek their use for evil purposes do.

Quite right.

Why would you want to crack down on knife crime? You can't harm anyone with a knife. It's not like anything major ever occurred because someone was carrying a knife.

[Easy Drifter]

Especially if you bring a knife to a gunfight!

[Tazio]

Especially if you bring a knife to a gunfight!

Or a Chicago Typewriter to Thermonuclear War

[Drew]

You have to be 16 in the UK just to buy razors :

But they have to be seen to be doing something..

[Rollo]

How many blades do you need anyway? I remember when they were just one, but now you can get a Gillette Fusion with FIVE

What I want to know is what will happen in the near future? Six? For the demon shall bear a nine-bladed sword. Nine-bladed! Not two or five or seven, but nine, which he will wield on all wretched sinners, sinners just like you sir... hmmm.

Will we get to the stage of a 55 bladed razor which takes off the top 12 layers of dermis and then cauterises one's face? Surgeons in hospitals should be able to use 17 bladed scapels in case the first 16 missed. How closely shaven do you need to be anyway?

[MrJan]

Knife crime in the UK is actually growing into a fairly serious problem and I believe accounts for a fair number of deaths per year (at least for our country anyway). Of course you can always turn your back and say 'that will never work', or you can attempt to reduce the problem. Okay so people will always kill each other with whatever they can use but I don't see why you have such an issue with attempting to reduce crime.

The point is that most of these idiots use knifes because they are easy to get hold of, make it difficult and the simpletons will move onto something else, not make weapons themselves. We're talking teenage kids with no real drive who find carrying a knife easy, not someone who has thought long and hard about the idea.

I see that knifes a practical, I carry a Leatherman about with me all the time, but this isn't an attempt to outlaw knifes, it's a tactic to reduce the number of deliquent kids who thinking that stabbing is cool.