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British retailer ASDA has announced that single kitchen knives will no longer be sold at its stores from the end of April. The move is in response to an ongoing wave of knife crime across London and elsewhere in Britain.

London continues its downward spiral under London Mayor Saddiq Khan’s leadership. Or lack thereof. According to figures from the London Metropolitan Police, 49 percent of knife crime is committed by teenagers. Even more revealing were numbers that indicated that three quarters of knife crime perpetrators were minorities. This is part of a larger trend of failed government policies that are beginning to produce toxic social outcomes throughout the UK. For a start, it doesn’t help that the UK has an expansive welfare state that is not very conducive to immigrant assimilation. One needn’t look further at the case of Sweden...

A psychotherapist in an Upper East Side office. A young woman working in a grocery store. A city bus driver behind the wheel in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on a lunchtime route.

Fears in Britain that knife crime is growing out of control have led the government to launch an awareness campaign directed at young people. Grimly realistic images will be distributed through social networking websites and mobile phones, as well as through traditional media outlets. London police chief Vernon Croaker explains said it was not that crime figures are rising, rather that the age of the victims is falling. He said: