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You're missing the point (pun intended).
Governments instituted to punish wrong doers resort to banning liberty when they are incompetent. Thus when folks say "do something about it," they point to their abolition of liberty. You can never prove how much crime you prevented.
As to the ability of the government to ban "certain" cutting implements, look around and try to find "street legal" swords, switchblades and other "banned" knives.
No idea what you're talking about related to my statement that knives are not banned in the UK.
Again. Knives are not banned. How many times do I have to say it?
Apologies, I do not watch YouTube videos posted on CD.
Did you have a point to make?
No idea what you're talking about related to my statement that knives are not banned in the UK.
Again. Knives are not banned. How many times do I have to say it?
Apologies, I do not watch YouTube videos posted on CD.
Did you have a point to make?
Knives are not banned in the UK.
As for public places, you can carry around knives and sharp tools as long as you have a good reason such as employment, a tradesman, butcher, farmer, game keeper, vet and numerous other professions might need to carry tools incluiding knives longer than three inches.
You can also carrty a sword for religious reasons, indeed Sikhs sometimes carry around a short ceremonial sword called a Kirpan.
What you can not do, is carry around a knife. weapon or indeed tools with intent to commit (going equipped to carry out a crime), and you can not carry a knife or other weapon in public merely for self defence purposes in the UK and indeed in most countries.
This is also not new legislation it goes back to the UK Prevention if Crime Act 1953, which is over 65 years ago.
As for kitchen knives, there is a lot of choice in the UK, and no one is banning traditional kitchen knives, just because one company has launched a new knife, indeed rounded tipped knives including kitchen kives are nothing new.
Last edited by Brave New World; 09-27-2019 at 03:41 AM..
As for public places, you can carry around knives and sharp tools as long as you have a good reason such as employment, a tradesman, butcher, farmer, game keeper, vet and numerous other professions might need to carry tools incluiding knives longer than three inches.
You can also carrty a sword for religious reasons, indeed Sikhs sometimes carry around a short ceremonial sword called a Kirpan.
What you can not do, is carry around a knife. weapon or indeed tools with intent to commit (going equipped to carry out a crime), and you can not carry a knife or other weapon in public merely for self defence purposes in the UK and indeed in most countries.
This is also not new legislation it goes back to the UK Prevention if Crime Act 1953, which is over 65 years ago.
As for kitchen knives, there is a lot of choice in the UK, and no one is banning traditional kitchen knives, just because one company has launched a new knife, indeed rounded tipped knives including kitchen kives are nothing new.
I did note the wording "you can not carry a knife or other weapon in public merely for self defence purposes in the UK and indeed in most countries". Self defense is illegal in Great Britain, but not in America.
I did note the wording "you can not carry a knife or other weapon in public merely for self defence purposes in the UK and indeed in most countries". Self defense is illegal in Great Britain, but not in America.
Shame. That's against the laws of nature.
Self defense of you and your family is one of the basic human rights we all have as humans.
Self Defence is not illegal, but it does have to be reasonable and proportionate to be legal, you can't just kill somebody because they deliberately bumped into you or stole your sandwich and expect to avoid prosecution.
And the carrying of dangerous weapons is restricted, which most people are perfectly happy about, there is no great controversy around that here and no clamour to change the law, firearms just don't hold the same central place in British culture (or indeed the culture of most developed countries) that they do in the US.
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