Posted on 04/15/2018 3:46:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It was widely reported earlier this month that London experienced a higher number of murders over the first three months of 2018 than did New York City—the first time in modern history that has occurred.
The United Kingdom has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the world, so the increased murder rate in the British capital is largely a result of a sharp rise in knife-related crime.
The surge in violence prompted London Mayor Sadiq Khan to announce a massive “knife control” campaign eerily reminiscent of those sometimes proffered in the United States in response to firearms-related violence.
The knife control measures will include the deployment of 300 additional London police officers to conduct “stop and frisk” searches of individuals suspected of knife-carrying, a policing tactic once roundly condemned by Khan.
Emergency legislation also appears set to prohibit knives purchased online from being sent to residential addresses. The U.K. already criminalizes the purchase or possession of various types of knives, and the carrying of any knife with a blade longer than 3 inches in public is illegal unless it is carried “with good reason.” Self-defense is not considered a good reason.
This crackdown on knives, and the surrounding rhetoric demonizing those who would carry them in public, should serve as a warning to Americans disconcerted by the vocal anti-Second Amendment activists in our own country. They will not be satisfied by merely taking away your scary “assault weapons.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
next they’ll use Pointed Sticks or Bananas ,forget the 1 ton weight
16-ton, not 1-ton.
Blame the spellchecker.
They need violence control laws.
16 ton , haven’t seen that Monty Python skit in a while
Your life isn't worth much in the Middle East either. These Open Borders plans aren't working out too good for some reason.
Because all leftists from around the globe only know how to combat things is to make laws against them. Then when they don’t enforce those laws and the laws are ignored, they create even more laws. With the thinking that the previous law wasn’t written correctly. It’s an endless game for them, because they never learn that laws that aren’t enforced do absolutely nothing. No matter how they are worded or the penalties they say the law will carry if broken.
Just make it illegal to murder people... That will work.
Just make it illegal to murder people... That will work.
It works well in societies that respect the rule of law.
Those societies do not need weapons control.
Actually, no society needs weapons controls, except for societies that are being ruled by a conquerer. In that case, the weapons control laws work for the conquerer.
Assault pressure cookers.
Travel close for U.K. and Europe should now include some kind of Kevlar protection. Is it available? I guess they would make that illegal also.
They need Muslim control.
GB in their stupid hubris will never be able to enforce any of their BS in the “no go” zones and feral Muslim populations.
He only condemned 'stop and frisk' when it applied to Blacks or Muslims street gangs because of 'profiling'. Khan has no problem with 'stop and frisk' as it applies to native Londoners who might be carrying knives to defend themselves against Blacks or Muslims street gangs.
Bomb Control
Mad Muslim Driver Control
Gun Control
Knife Control
All failed to save lives in UK from terrorists.
Maybe they need another law...
The purpose of the laws is not to reduce crime. The purpose is to render the law-abiding defenseless against mob violence. The ruling class wants a docile, non-rebellious, working/middle class.
Keep in mind that common crime DOES NOT AFFECT the ruling class, safe in their gated communities and well-guarded luxury apartment buildings.
I can just see this idiot busting Gordon Ramsey for carrying a set of chef’s knives.
All one can hope is that Brits are inching closer to that same end.
Sorry! We have it from Official Sources that “No Go Areas” do not exist in the UK. You are simply mistaken. /Sarc
In London you do not have a right to live.
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