Knife Ban for the Brits now?

[Stomper]

Sorry tac.
It's like a dog that "fear barks".
They don't know how to act so they make noise.

Or poop all over the place....

 

[Stomper]

OK, this is probably the last time I'm going to post this, and it saddens me that it has to be posted on an American forum as a reminder.

The United States of America is the ONLY nation on Earth where the right to bear arms is protected by the founding document of the nation.

That's all, folks.

On earth... how about in human history?

 

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[STEELE]

Just read that there was a "New record high" of "Knife Crimes" in the UK in 2019. They recorded 45,627 cases which was up 7% from 2018. The five year count was up 20,000. So...they took guns away, but violent crime continues via bladed weapons. If they ban knives, surely the weapons of choice will become bats, pitchforks, axes, bows, spears, bricks, etc. Maybe politicians and other dimwits will start thinking that the "Assault People" need to be banned? Probably not. That would be deemed discriminatory.

 

[03A3Sporter]

But those nice folk were told all violent crime would go away when guns were banned.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Please tread lightly in this thread and with the comments.

This topic has been covered many , many times....Often with disparaging remarks towards the UK and those who live there.
Rule Number One still applies here.
( Just posting the above as reminder...not calling anyone out here )
Andy

 

[tac]

Thanks, Andy. Just a gentle reminder that for 'knife crimes in London', read, instead, 'gun crimes in Detroit', and you'll get the general picture.

Don't have a gun? Simple - use a knife instead. Add, too, that most of these crimes are carried out by people who are around 13 - 17 y/o, and not white, or very white, see what I'm sayin'?

Look at it all that way and you'll save yourselves upsetting the people who live here in yUK.

BTW, I live in the middle of the country's largest farming county, and the only place I've ever seen a pitchfork is in the local 'rural museum of country life'. And here, to cheer you all up, are the 2018 figures and 2019 figures compared -

Knife-related crime in Cambridgeshire : 516 to 402, down 22%. Remember that just waving a knife around in public here in yUK is an offence.

Cambridgeshire has a population of 652,000 - give or take a few. So unless you frequent the locales where the yoofs carry a knife, you are very unlikely to ever encounter a knife fight, let alone a mugging. And by the way, there were a total of 452 muggings in the county in 2016/17 - the last pair of years for which figures are available.

What about shootings, you might ask? Ah, OK, you got me there. There was an incident in 2015 where the BG got shot dead - 'Richard Davies, 41, from Duck Lane, St Neots, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest following a standoff with police at his home on October 21, 2015.

He was pronounced dead at approximately 8.43pm, just 13 minutes after armed officers arrived at the scene.

It was the first time that Cambridgeshire Police had fatally discharged a weapon in the county.

Ever, in recorded history, and remember that 'recorded history' here goes back to around, let's be charitable and say 900 AD?

Hardly the seething hotbed of violence that some might wish on us.

 

[Howard1955]

Uncontrolled immigration. 'Nuff said.

 

[CLT65]

Violence is a cultural issue. It's not about weapon availability. It's not about race, ethnicity, or nationality. Peaceable people will be peaceable whether they have weapons or not. Those raised in a culture with a tolerance of and tendency for violence will kill each other with fists and rocks, even if you take away their guns and knives.

"Murder is a matter of will, not weapon"

 

[Slagiatt]

Violence is a cultural issue. It's not about weapon availability. It's not about race, ethnicity, or nationality. Peaceable people will be peaceable whether they have weapons or not. Those raised in a culture with a tolerance of and tendency for violence will kill each other with fists and rocks, even if you take away their guns and knives.

"Murder is a matter of will, not weapon"

Lots of well documented statistics disagree with that. Spend a little time on the internet researching fbi crime statistics by race.

 

[revjen45]

I knew a fellow who didn't like guns so he kept an axe next to the bed. Maybe he needed to prepare some firewood in the bedroom.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

I'm gonna ban Dims

 

[PaulB47]

"With Gun Ban Not Working, Politicians In Britain Now Want To Ban Knives Nationwide"

Wouldn't it make more sense to just make murder illegal? Not worry about the tool used?

 

[coltemp]

What this thread does show is what happens when what were rights are allowed to be slowly eroded.
What the progression over the years in Britain, and other places, is that when firearm rights are denied in one way that is never enough. Instead over time more and more rights are removed until there are none left. The lesson to learn here is that the USA is about 20 to 30 years behind the UK in removing rights. The same progression is happening here.

The result should be that we as part of this community stand up and be counted and make sure our other firearms owners do the same.

 

[cookie]

"Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words will trigger me." The new saying of the people that want this sort of non-sense.

P/C speach !!

 

[arakboss]

UK stabbing attack that left 3 dead being treated as terror incident, police say

The stabbing rampage in a British park that left three people dead is now being treated as a terrorist attack, police said.

www.foxnews.com

 

[tac]

"With Gun Ban Not Working, Politicians In Britain Now Want To Ban Knives Nationwide". Wouldn't it make more sense to just make murder illegal? Not worry about the tool used?

Knives over 3.5 inches long may NOT be carried in a public place, nor may locking blade knives be carried. This effectively makes the ever-popular Leatherman and its ilk illegal, unless you have good reason to have it on your person.

Those kind of people who feel the need to carry a knife for 'protection' are outside my frame of reference - I'm 74, and they all seem to be between 12 and 18, and live in towns and cities, go around in gangs, and pass certain hallucinogenic substances between themselves in return for money and 'respect'.

Living a country-style life means that my Leatherman is rarely off my belt, but then I've never been engaged in anything that would attract the attention of the police. Come to think of it, I can't rightly remember seeing a police officer walking around the village in the last 33 years...

 

[tac]

What this thread does show is what happens when what were rights are allowed to be slowly eroded.
What the progression over the years in Britain, and other places, is that when firearm rights are denied in one way that is never enough. Instead over time more and more rights are removed until there are none left. The lesson to learn here is that the USA is about 20 to 30 years behind the UK in removing rights. The same progression is happening here.

The result should be that we as part of this community stand up and be counted and make sure our other firearms owners do the same.

There are no 'RIGHTS' to firearms ownership in the UK. Watch this Youtube chat with Eric, iraqveteran888 -

 

[tac]

News from yUK -

The suspect arrested in connection with a terrorist incident in Reading that saw three people stabbed to death has been named as a Libyan national who had been freed from prison towards the end of last year.

Khairi Saadallah, 25, has been named as the suspect arrested by Thames Valley Police following the multiple stabbing in Forbury Gardens on Saturday evening.

The PA news agency reported that he had been freed from prison for a non-terror offence towards the end of last year after serving a sentence in excess of 12 months.

A security source told the agency that the suspect is understood to have been granted asylum in the UK and mental health is being considered a major factor in the incident.

On Sunday police investigating the attack declared the rampage a "terrorist incident" and said the investigation was being handed over to a counter-terrorism unit.

Police were called to reports of a stabbing at Forbury Gardens inReading's town centre around 7pm on Saturday.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

Let's look at this on the bright side.
When at a high end snobby ahole restaurant you can eat a thick juicy steak with your hands.