2010 election & changes to knife law

[Chinkapin]

Go into his mums kitchen drawer, nick her 7" carving knife, shove it down his trousers and be on his way?

Siberianfury, I think you may have inadvertently hit upon the solution to the problem. If these angry young men keep shoving 7" carving knives down their trousers, in a very short time, the U.K. population of angry young men will begin to plummet as they kill each other off and since they will be unable to reproduce (see above) the situation will take care of itself in one generation.

My only suggestion for a new law would be one that would require all mums to have no knife shorter than 7" and all kitchen knives must be kept carefully honed and stropped at all times!

 

[TJRoots]

my opinion is that the best thing to do would be to just crack down harder on knife crime[/], not knives themselves, carrying a knife harms nobody, using a knife correctly harms nobody, the only way to harm someone with a knife is to do something that is already a crime and that is to assault someone, which is just as easily done with our hands and is done with our hands alot more than with knives, but theres no ban on taking our hands to public places (yes i know that would be impossible it is just an example). so what im saying is that if the punishment for using a knife illegally is severe enough then surely people wouldnt do it, or would at least think twice about it. in the end whether or not we stop knife crime doesnt make any difference to crime rates in total, if someone wants to kill someone and they have a knife on them they'll use it, if someone wants to kill someone and they dont have a knife they'll beat them to death, snap their neck or choke them to death. banning everyone from carrying knives just to prevent some people from killing in a certain way is pointless, if you really want to stop knife crime then be strict on knife crime but dont make life harder for all us normal folks, people are gonna carry knives wether they are legal or not, at least if they are legal then people carrying them for good reasons wont get crapped on.

oh my i seem to have rambled on a bit their, sorry, if you cant be arsed to read all that then here it is in a nutshell,
make knives legal, increase severity of sentences for knife crime.

ATB
TJ

 

[ForgeCorvus]

I think that banning the carrying of knives would do nothing but increase "knife crime" as all those people who want to have a cutting tool with them are now "criminals"
We have more then enough laws to cover offensive weapons already we don't need polititians to do anything except shut up. We need the police and the Courts to do their jobs better (as for that judge in the lock-knife precedent, he destroyed the lawful standing of a type of safe folding knife either through bias or ignorance)

The less said about knee-jerk laws the better.

I was told by someone (who is a prison officer and therefore deals with both sides of the law) that the commonest knife used in gang and street crime is the pound shop steak knife (crappy steel, serrated blade, naff woodenish handle, 6 to a pack....you know the type) because they are disposable

 

[Ph34r]

my opinion is that the best thing to do would be to just crack down harder on knife
make knives legal, increase severity of sentences for knife crime.

ATB
TJ

I completely agree.