While that inquiry is expected to focus on why state institutions failed to act on warnings about the killer before his attack, attention has also turned to regulations around buying knives.
Current British laws require retailers to have an age verification system to prevent those aged under 18 from buying knives, but elements of those systems are not clearly defined - and it's a stupid fuckin' idea anyway...
Interior minister Yvette Cooper said in parliament last week it was a disgrace that a kid, aged 17 at the time of the attack, had been able to buy a knife online. On Sunday the government said it would now mandate that retailers check photo identification at both the point of sale and delivery, and that deliveries can only be accepted by the person who placed the order.
When you can't come up with any other solution, craft legislation that will do absolutely nothing to resolve the issue you're addressing. What part of the words 'knee-jerk' don't I (or them actually) get?
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ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, in Japan some years ago..."Japanese police are hunting for a man who stabbed a stranger to death with a sharpened umbrella tip, possibly in a row over parking."
ReplyDeleteSo That Place Where Great Britain Used to Be wants to emulate the gungrabbers in the U.S., but only harder and stupider?
ReplyDeleteNext up...Srewdrivers (only slotted for now, phillips to be banned at some future date), any and all hammers weighing more than 350 grams.
ReplyDeleteWho here remembers Barlow knives? I grew up in the 1950s when every self respecting non-city boy over 7 or 8 years old carried a jackknife and knew how to play Mumblety-peg, how to whittle a big stick into a little stick, how to carve a girls initials in a tree and how to shave a branch down to make a fire starter. Of course there were plenty of fights and disputes through those years but not even one time did I see a boy pull his knife in anger to use as a weapon against another boy. But there were a fair amount of self inflicted cuts which proved top be a pretty effective way to learn what not to do with your knife.
ReplyDeleteMakes me wonder if Britain ever outlawed lead-based glazes on pottery and lead water pipes. Seems like even their "elites" are brain-damaged.
ReplyDeleteOur politicians have IQs normally associated with microscopic pond life. Banning things is their first consideration and although it makes no difference they congratulate themselves on their hard work.
ReplyDeleteNobody ever does any thinking in our political class. First of all they simply don't have the equipment to do so and they find it so hard. Our current government is made up of failed school political students and it shows. They never manage to consider what will be the knock on impact of their decisions and are horrified when they find someone has either worked or ignored their brilliant law.
To be honest most politicians are scum, that is why decent people don't want to do the job. It's not that the job corrupts people it is just that generally power attracts the corruptible. There are, a few exceptions.
Outlaw knives in the UK, just like they outlawed guns. Will that law enable people to prepare food, will it stop the murders by foreign invaders, will they choose forks, spoons, table knives and steak knives next?
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