Well done to Watchdog for increasing the media induced mass hysteria over knife crime, and continuing the trend by the UK press to tar all legitimate and law abiding knife users with the same brush as those who use knives for less than legitimate purposes, while I appreciate knife crime is a serious issue in the UK, the majority of knife crime is undertaken with kitchen knives, which are freely available, do people really and honestly believe that people intent on committing knife crime are going to purchase a knife from the US, when all they have to do is take one from the kitchen or buy/steal one from Robert Dyas?, if Watchdog were totally honest in their report, they would have also mentioned the number of stabbings carried out with broken glass bottles, screwdrivers and other tools that are freely available, Is Ebay going to go for a ban on all tools next?.
All Ebay has managed to do is alienate legitimate law abiding citizens who use a knife in pursuit of their profession or hobby, a knife is an inanimate object it's a tool not a weapon. Look at the real issues behind knife crime for a change, the Press and more importantly the Government need to ask themselves why are young people feeling the need to carry a knife for protection?, but that would mean actually having to address a real issue, knives are not the problem as we all know, it's the breakdown of society that's the issue and it's about time the authorities acted upon the underlying issue instead of wrongly assuming that all knife users are up to no good, but of course that would be too simple wouldn't it.
