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Carrying the knife, or the gun, isn't the problem - It's how it is used by the person carrying it.Knives here in UK?
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That's it for buying one. As for wearing one, well, unless you want to feel like a total pratt, walking around town wearing a knife, please go ahead and try it and see what happens. Guess what? You'll be arrested. Y'see, the law hereabouts does not recognise that anybody would actually CARRY a knife around in public unless it is part of their work requirement - like being a professional fisherman, fire & rescue first responder, something like that. An ordinary Joe walking around the streets with a knife is an instant source of suspicion - I'll admit that I've never seen anybody with a knife here in UK that isn't a boy scout.
A young person carrying a knife is usually only doing so for two reasons - 1. To use on another young person. 2. To defend himself from another young person with a knife. People like this way outside my area of interest and experience - I live out in the countryside, and not in a town, where such youths are a commonplace sight. I know most of the youth in our double village, and TMK, none of them either carry a knife, or see the necessity to do so - it's an uban thang.
So a young person carrying a knife has no good reason to do so that would stand up on court, where he would be defending the charge of carrying an illegal weapon.
It's really not so hard to understand, is it?
I doubt any person with criminal intent cares 1 bit about what the law says. Hence, those types of laws only guarantee that the criminals are armed while the "law abiding" populace are not. It's also a morality thing. I don't need a law to tell me not to stab/slice a person with a knife.
I carried a knife most of my adolescence and into adulthood. Haven't used it on anyone yet. A lot of boxes, branches, plastic rapped items, straps, and when cleaning fish, the fish. etc. have felt the blade.
Ultimately it becomes a conversation about freedom. If the government tells me I'm not allowed to carry something - that's a problem. A free people are capable of making decisions for how to comport themselves and what they carry on their person.