R.I.P. Scout26
Have to be careful with any crime data from the UK. They have very strange reporting vs the US. Crimes are counted for example when the case is resolved if I recall correctly so cases that don’t have convictions are not counted. They also have some sort of weird thing with how coroners classify deaths that make it so many potential murders aren’t actually labeled as murders.
So you're saying the statistics could be far worse than they are presented?
If I remember right, doesn't England already have very strict knife laws? I seem to recall that pointed chef knives had to be replaced by sontoku style blades because of those law. Pocket knives are pretty much illegal, especially lockblades.
Hawkmoon - Never underestimate another person's capacity for stupidity. Any time you think someone can't possibly be that dumb ... they'll prove you wrong.
Viking - The problem with the modern world is that there aren't really any predators eating stupid people.
Check this page out: https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
If I lived in England especially in certain areas I'd invest in a chainmail shirt and wear it under a loose sweater or sports jersey or some such garment.
"Zombie knives". Well, we have "ghost guns" so I guess we can't make fun. Even most multi-tools are apparently illegal. I can't recall the last time I went more than a day without using my knife for something, and without the lockblade, I'd be going through a lot more band-aids, or worse.
"co-ops"?
Cooperative education (or co-operative education) is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience. Cooperative education is taking on new importance in helping young people to make the school-to-work transition. Cooperative learning falls under the umbrella of work-integrated learning (alongside internships, service learning and clinical placements) but is distinct as it alternates a school term with a work term in a structured manner, involves a partnership between the academic institution and the employer, and generally is both paid and intended to advance the education of the student.[1]
In Scotland, 16 to 18 year olds are allowed to buy cutlery and kitchen knives.
'It used to be men in their 20s - now children in school uniforms arrive with stab wounds', says top London surgeon
"When guns knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns knives."
