Go #knifefree

[Flechette]

From the UK Home Office

https://www.knifefree.co.uk/go-knifefree/

"And, while those that carry often claim to do it to feel safer, carrying a knife can get you into dangerous situations."

"When you carry a knife, you are risking everything. Prison, being a victim of crime and even ending up in hospital are all real risks."

I am at a loss. How does carrying a knife make you become the victim of a crime?

There is clearly a completely different mindset here at work.

 

[reddog81]

There is clearly a completely different mindset here at work.

I find it hard to believe that there are people, much less a whole country, that are actually that stupid but I guess it's possible.

 

[Swifty Morgan]

An entire nation, restricted to safety scissors.

 

[Kano383]

This whole nonsense stemming from the fact that, after banning guns... the crime rate in London is higher than in New York, and stabbing is high on the list. Of course, all these murders are the fact of law-abiding citizens carrying illegal guns and knives... Can't fix delusion.

 

[ClickClickD'oh]

"Whether you carry a knife, are thinking about carrying, or are worried about someone you know getting involved with knives – there is help and support available. It can be a tough thing to do, but these resources can help anyone join the millions of young people who live knife free."

Holy lolerskates. They really put that on a website? Like it's Heroin or Suicide Outreach.

 

[rbernie]

How does carrying a knife make you become the victim of a crime?

Carrying a knife is clearly a gateway activity that leads to general lawlessness and association with Folk Of Ill Repute, amongst whom you are more likely to be predated upon than if conducting yourself in more genteel company.

 

[Swifty Morgan]

I've been carrying a knife recklessly since I was a kid, wandering about with one in my pocket as if it was a totally normal thing to do. Somehow it didn't attract criminals. I've been lucky.

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

Go #knifefree

LOL

No.

 

[entropy]

From the UK Home Office

https://www.knifefree.co.uk/go-knifefree/

"And, while those that carry often claim to do it to feel safer, carrying a knife can get you into dangerous situations."

"When you carry a knife, you are risking everything. Prison, being a victim of crime and even ending up in hospital are all real risks."

I am at a loss. How does carrying a knife make you become the victim of a crime?

There is clearly a completely different mindset here at work.

From the land that brought you '1984'; even though Orwell wrote it as a warning, some there (and here) regard it as an instruction manual.

 

[JeffG]

Without pointing at one particular secular group, (which will get your post summarily deleted)....do you think this will stop criminals from carrying knives.? Have you ever seen someone hit over the noggin with a cast iron black widow frying pan? My weapon for carry in the UK.

 

[Sistema1927]

I was in the Boy Scouts (BSA) when my Dad was stationed in England for 4 years. 18 months in Norfolk and 2 1/2 years in London.

I can't count the number of times that I rode London city buses and the Underground while in my Boy Scout uniform and wearing this on my belt:

(4.5" blade). Sure glad now that it didn't turn me to the "dark side".

 

[RPZ]

I'm waiting for the legislation to ban all knives. Plastic cutlery only in the home, schools, food service businesses and restaurants etc. Meat, poultry, fish and veg processing facilities excepted, but knives serial numbered, inventoried daily, secured on steel cables at work stations, locked in a safe at the end of each day.

 

[bannockburn]

"When you carry a knife, you are risking everything. Prison, being a victim of crime and even ending up in hospital are all real risks."

This is so mind boggling I don't even know where to begin. I have had a pocket knife ever since I was in the Cub Scouts (still have it too!), and some how, after all these years, I never felt I was "risking everything" by carry a knife with me.

I truly feel sorry for the British people having to live with this nanny state doctrine foisted on them by spineless, feeble minded politicians and their likewise namby-pamby, social engineering counterparts. I'm certain the people will eventually be restricted to using plastic spoons as their only eating utensils and forced to wear mittens all of the time so they don't poke someone's eyes out. And safety scissors will be the order of the day, provided of course you have the proper permits to have paper and it's safely kept under lock and key.

Rule Britannia! Not likely...

 

[WrongHanded]

It's pretty simple concept: No weapons and no right to self defense, equals no violence.

Except that people don't work like that. However, as someone that grew up in the UK, I carried a knife regularly and never stabbed anyone. Awareness is an important life skill. And knives are nice for cutting string and stuff.

 

[JeffG]

I would suppose martial arts academies will be booming.

 

[Elkins45]

Carrying a knife caused me to become a stripper...a wire stripper.

 

[Jim Watson]

Knife free? Not me.
England free? Yup.

 

[JeffG]

Lion King: "Just a little sick one??"

 

[somethingbenign]

This mindset is stateside as well albeit not as prominent. I was at a family function several years ago and someone needed a box cut open or some such. Grabbed mine and cut it open without a second thought.

My aunt: "Well that was convenient you had that, what are the odds?" Well I carry this knife every day. "Oh my, I didn't know things were that dangerous in Omaha." Uh, I am a maintenance man, I use it everyday as one of many tools.

She honestly believed I was fighting my way to and from work every day just because I had a knife on me.

 

[Fine Figure of a Man]

Maybe we should go along with a ban on high capacity, full semi-auto, super pointy assault knives. It makes us look bad if we don't do something to save the children. Nobody needs those for hunting or chopping vegetables anyway. Those vegetable chopping knives should be kept in government subsidized locked safes too. We have to work together and compromise so we don't look stubborn, old fashioned and mean. If we do nothing the next active school stabber is on us.

I learnt this lojik from some recent threads.

 

[doubleh]

This is so mind boggling I don't even know where to begin. I have had a pocket knife ever since I was in the Cub Scouts (still have it too!), and some how, after all these years, I never felt I was "risking everything" by carry a knife with me.

I truly feel sorry for the British people having to live with this nanny state doctrine foisted on them by spineless, feeble minded politicians and their likewise namby-pamby, social engineering counterparts. I'm certain the people will eventually be restricted to using plastic spoons as their only eating utensils and forced to wear mittens all of the time so they don't poke someone's eyes out. And safety scissors will be the order of the day, provided of course you have the proper permits to have paper and it's safely kept under lock and key.

Rule Britannia! Not likely...

I strongly suspect that the majority of the voting citizens support these measures just as those in certain of our cities and states do. Other wise how do those that make these laws stay in power? If enough voters ever get fed up with the situation it will change but until then it's just tough for the one's that don't like it in either in the UK or the US. I only feel sorry for those that wish to change this but don't have the political numbers to do so.

My parents gave me my first knife when I was six years old. I carried it to school as did most boys. For a few years we farm dwelling kids had to wait an hour for the older kids classes to finish and the buses to run. If it was decent weather we were outside. Whittling on a fallen tree limb was quite a common way to kill that hour. To this day there is always a pocket knife in my pocket and will be until I have no need for a knife or pocket to carry it in. Fortunately I've managed to live in a part of the world that seems to have at least a little bit of common sense.

 

[Sistema1927]

It wasn't just in England that I carried that Craftsman sheath knife. All throughout elementary school, junior high, and high school I always had a knife on my person. If a teacher said "Who can cut this string?" there would be a race to see who could get their pocket knife out first. Many a frayed film leader were trimmed so that they could be spliced. It seemed that part of the unofficial high school uniform was a 4" Buck 110 in a leather belt sheath. Only the daring would play mumbley-peg on the playground, the rest of us didn't want to destroy our blades or their edge.

And (but not in England!), we also took guns to school, and nobody blinked an eye.

Progress? I think not.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Some where Churchill spins in his grave! What a bunch of asinine foolishness!

 

[George P]

I'm waiting for the legislation to ban all knives. Plastic cutlery only in the home, schools, food service businesses and restaurants etc. Meat, poultry, fish and veg processing facilities excepted, but knives serial numbered, inventoried daily, secured on steel cables at work stations, locked in a safe at the end of each day.

They are seriously considering making kitchen knives mandated to have round, dull points to lessen danger. I wouldn't doubt that soon, if you're a chef, you'll need to form of permission to carry your knives to your work.

Have friends who live outside of London when they're not here in the US. The boxcutter is the main choice of street thugs and purse snatchers. He mentioned it was very prevalent among certain "unnamed" groups and they would run past you and slice the purse strap or just you across your back.

 

[Taurus 617 CCW]

I guess their logic is akin to claiiming that rape victims are the cause of rape.