Posted on 04/27/2024 7:45:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
His comments came after being presented with new LBC analysis back in January, which revealed that five children per day were arrested for carrying a knife in 2023, including children aged 10 - the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
According to LBC's findings, published for the first time today, around 1,500 children aged 16 and under were arrested for the possession of a knife or other sharp implements such as screwdrivers, carving forks or shards of glass over the first ten months of 2023.
The data is based on responses to Freedom of Information requests from 38 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.
Mr Elba launched his ‘Don’t Stop Your Future’ campaign earlier this year, which aims to reduce the number of young people losing their lives to knife crime.
His efforts have helped to expedite the ban on so-called “Zombie knives”, which are due to be outlawed in England and Wales from September.
The Luther star said: “We know our government can be agile when it comes to issues they really care about, like border control or XL bullies [where] you see some real focused thinking.”
But Mr Elba contended that when it comes to knife crime, that same level of focus has not always been displayed “because it’s for some reason [characterised] as a London problem, or an ethnic problem… Come on, let’s just knock [the excuses] off now. Too many young people are dying from this - it is young people - [and] one of those young people could change the fabric of the country in the future - we’ve got to protect them.”
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Maybe those kids are afraid of pedophile Muslim gangs?
What about pointed sticks?
You are obviously an Islamophobe. 🤡
Come at me with that banana!
But what is an XL bully?
I was thinking more the “16-Ton Weight”.
Extra large Bull dog I believe
Just say they are eating knives like everyone carried back in the dark ages, which England is rapidly reverting to.
A Pit Bull.
Again, focusing on objects instead of the perps - never ends well.
Cars don’t “drink drive” (UK term) themselves.
Knives don’t stab people on their own.
Guns don’t levitate themselves and just “go off” in crowds of people.
Delusion - it’s not just a river in Egypt.
My 7 yoa grandson loves knifes.
I think he owns 10 or so.
I am building a survival fanny pack for him. It is going to inclued a six in Western brand hunting knife.
I will hone it to be razor sharp.
He will love it.
Did you mean to say, “eating WITH knives”?
“You are obviously an Islamophobe. “
A moniker I wear proudly
Bond would have suggested the Walther PPK as the simplest solution to "knife crime". :)
That’s my guess too.
aged 16 and under were arrested for the possession of a knife or other sharp implements such as screwdrivers, carving forks or shards of glass
When the UK outlawed guns, everyone joked that they would outlaw knives next.
Losers.
I got my first pocketknife in 1962, when I was 7. Still have a clearly visible scar on my left forefinger from when I learned not to cut toward myself, the first week I had it. I’ve carried one or more knives every day since then, in school and elsewhere (except for places like airplanes and courthouses).
Good for your grandson not to believe all of the bad-knives propaganda. Too bad schools have become so wussified about ordinary tools.
When I was in Middle School, one of the shop projects we could build was a hunting knife. Not a single person got stabbing. The only bloody incident I ever recall in shop was when a kid cut off his index finger on a table saw.
WTH is a zombie knife?
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