I have worked in what is considered to be a 'rough' area of Glasgow on and off for over ten years.
I've become quite proficient at telling what kind of blade caused what kind of facial scarring in an area where it is so commonplace as not to raise any comment (.......the only one that totally threw me turned out to have been a fall from the top of a tenement
) and the vast majority are caused by kitchen knives with the humble stanley knife running them a very close second.
I was born in Hamilton, and only live a couple of miles away now. Earlier this month two young men had their faces scarred for life in an altercation in the middle of the day in the middle of the town
http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk...1/two-men-slashed-in-hamilton-51525-23839970/
I have been told that it was domestic knives that were used on both of them.
Last week one of the forum members felt something odd about the young man standing at the door to the block of flats where she lives in Motherwell; she turned round as she left and he had a huge bread knife tucked into the back of his belt.
The one thing all of these have in common is that none of the incidences involve the kind of knives that bushcrafters use, or that folks such as the members of BB, collect.
However, with the statistics showing that three victims of assault with a sharp implement are admitted to local hospitals *every day* clearly something needs done.
Whether banning all knives is the way to go about it though.......and how this poll addresses that
cheers,
Toddy