Funny you should mention it. I was about to comment on the picture in original article which seemingly to depicts that very process going forward.
Posted on 02/09/2006 12:50:15 PM PST by vrwc0915
NATIONWIDE knife amnesty to end the carnage on our streets was launched yesterday.
The five-week initiative, running throughout the UK, is aimed at repeating the success of Operation Blade, which took thousands of weapons off the streets of Strathclyde in 1993.
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson yesterday vowed it would be just one of many measures to battle knife crime in Scotland.
Victims of the scourge have included policeman Lewis Fulton, knifed through the heart in Glasgow in 1994 as he tried to arrest a teenage schizophrenic.
Knives are becoming an increasing menace in the hands of young girls, too.
Kirsty Nisbet, from Edinburgh, was just 14 when she needed 89 stitches after a former friend slashed her with a craft knife in 2002, leaving her scarred for life.
Knives today, spoons tomorrow.
Rest of the story:
Jamieson added: "We have seen the impact of Operation Blade and I want to see that replicated throughout Scotland."
She appealed to those who carry knives: "Use the amnesty as an opportunity to put this behind you and stop more young people being killed or maimed."
Launching the amnesty for England and Wales, Home Secretary Charles Clarke said: "Every weapon handed in will be a weapon that cannot be used in crime.
"Anyone with a knife or other weapon that might be used to cause fear and distress on our streets should take this chance to get rid of it."
During the amnesty, which will run from May 24 to June 30, there will be disposal points for weapons at police stations and other locations around Scotland.
Knives will be forensically checked to see if they have been used in any crime but it is expected that the vast majority will just be destroyed.
Lord Advocate Colin Boyd will retain his right to prosecute if there is evidence a knife has been used in an offence.
Boyd said yesterday the Crown Office were also carrying out a major review of their policy on knife crime.
He added: "They will give careful consideration to prosecuting persistent and violent offenders, in a court empowered to send them to prison for the maximum period allowed by law."
The Executive's plans to double the maximum sentence for carrying a blade to four years have been criticised as not doing enough.
Critics point out most offences are dealt with as summary crimes - which attract a much lower sentence.
Scottish Tories welcomed the amnesty.
Justice spokeswoman Margaret Mitchell said: "At a time when knife crime is reaching almost epidemic proportions, an amnesty to get these lethal weapons off the streets is clearly a step in the right direction."
SNP justice spokesman Kenny MacAskill said: "We welcome this amnesty as part of the efforts to tackle this problem.
"It must be made clear after the amnesty is over, there will be no excuses for carrying a knife or a sword in Scotland."
Hahaha. Oh wait, they're serious, let me laugh harder. Bwahahahahah!!
After that they will round up the 16-ton weights AND the pointed sticks.
How do they feel about baseball and cricket bats?
Not Scrappleface?
OMG!
LOL
Idiots.
So the UK sheeple can turn in their balls, as males are more prone to injure someone in defense of themselves
To be followed in a few months' time by estrogen injections, no doubt.
After the amnesty, they can crack down on the knife problem and arrest anyone who cuts their steak with anything sharper than a fork.
Go on! Brandish that banana!
Sriously, I say, "Fork anyone who tries to take my knife away."
You can't turn in what you let atrophy away a generation ago.
So9
Funny you should mention it. I was about to comment on the picture in original article which seemingly to depicts that very process going forward.
These pansies would $#!+ a brick if they saw what I have in my pockets, right now.
Sgt.: Huh! 'Flu, eh? They should eat more fresh fruit. Ha. Right. Now,
self-defence. Tonight I shall be carrying on from where we got to last
week when I was showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you with armed with a piece of fresh fruit.
Bu..but Sergeant Major... What if they have a machinegun???" "Don't worry... Release the tiger!"
The whole country will be eating with plastic sporks.
Keep steering wheels and golf clubs away from Kennedys..
Just make a few more laws and it will be easier to make a criminal out of everyone. So if a man or woman has a pocketknife in their pants or in their purse they're somehow carrying a "weapon" and can be sent to prison...according to the article? A sane person who would support this legislation doesn't realize how it could return to bite him/her in the butt very easily.
How about this scenario...a guy goes down the street to borrow a large screwdriver from his friend to work on his car. While returning home, thugs attempt to mug him for his wallet and he brandishes the tool at them. Does he get whisked off to prison once the police arrive? This "zero tolerance" lunacy has to stop.
~ Blue Jays ~
Tell this ain't for real.
Good choice on the P226.
I've got one of the older, stamped slide models from 1990.
Over 43,000 (yes, thousand) rounds through it and it's still great. And the G2 Nitro is a great deal. I have three ;)
This time, authorities are hoping to avoid the wave of unfortunate choking deaths of thousands due to inadequately chopped food that followed the earlier experiment. Authorities have lmiited supermarkets to pureed foods and jello-type products.
Stories like this always remind me of an exchange on All in the Family between Archie and Gloria in an episode dealing with gun control. To justify her position against gun ownership, Gloria recites the current statistic of how many people died as a result of being shot. Archie's response was classic and still holds true today. "Would you be happier if they was all pushed off a building, little girl?" I often wonder how astonished and ticked off Norman Lear was that Archie Bunker was such a popular character. I'm positive that in Lear's mind that Archie was supposed to be the villain/buffoon to be shown up constantly by the enlightened "meathead". It must have caused him great consternation. Of course, like most liberals, I'm sure all the money he made off of the series assuaged any ethical dilemma he must have suffered.
lol. Schizophrenics and girls. Those are the really tough ones, right. Also, a voluntary hand over your knife day will really be sure to reach all the schizophrenics, you can be sure of that...
"I'm schizophrenic and so am I."
ROCKS!!
Deadly ASSAULT ROCKS!
Quick! Turn in all your rocks !
Only professionals will be allowed to have a rock posession permit!
Cain smote Abel with a ...ROCK!
FORRRRR THE CHILDRENNNNN! /sarc, of course
People have grown to be such Nervous Nellies that it is a miracle they're able to leave their homes...not to mention going anywhere without their therapists tagging along for immediate feedback and discussion. The authorities in the U.K. would likely choke if they saw the "dangerous" 3-inch blade on the knife I carry virtually everywhere:
This handy little item accompanied me for years on over ninety foreign and domestic airline flights. It never once jumped out of my pocket to cause trouble for anyone in any of the far-flung places I've visited. It still is the perfect tool for spreading cream cheese on bagels, opening snack foods packed in mylar, or slicing the plastic on new CD purchases.
~ Blue Jays ~
This legisltaion is on the heels of the failed knife registry. No, I'm not kidding......
But, but, we got rid of the evil guns, so there can't be any more murders. Guns kill people, people don't kill people.
Check this article out.
Missing the Point
Banning sharp kitchen knives won’t cut Britain’s violent crime. | 2 June 2005
Violent crime continues to increase in Britain, by 17 percent last year alone. Stabbing is particularly fashionable, and up to a quarter of British 16-year-olds now claim to carry knives whenever they leave home, and to be prepared to use them. That is apparently what the Scouting motto, “Be Prepared,” now means to British children.
An anxious editorial in the British Medical Journal, penned by three emergency room doctors, offers a partial solution to the problem: ban the sale of kitchen knives with pointed ends. Such points serve for nothing, from the culinary point of view (the authors consulted several eminent chefs); but they sometimes inflict fatal wounds in the course of domestic arguments. EXCERPT
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_06_02_05td.html
"...Knives will be forensically checked to see if they have been used in any crime but it is expected that the vast majority will just be destroyed. Lord Advocate Colin Boyd will retain his right to prosecute if there is evidence a knife has been used in an offence..."
I'd love to see what kind of forensic evidence they can pull off a knife that has been boiled in bleach for thirty minutes. This obviously isn't an "amnesty program" as far as criminals in that country would be concerned.
This is simply absurd legislation that is designed to make people feel like they're "doing something" but absolutely won't do anything to reduce violence or solve old crimes. How people get suckered into stuff like this over and over again is beyond me.
~ Blue Jays ~
What about glass? A person could get a nasty cut while trying to break into a house. Better to give the criminals what they want rather than risk having them harmed.
Abolish windows!
I predict that this program will be a big flop, due in large part to it's poor timing. Just as civilized people all over Europe are realizing the degree of danger posed by the millions of militant Muslims in their midst, who are ready to kill people over cartoons they don't like, the UK government asks everyone to turn in their knives. A lot of people who might have done it 2 weeks ago, won't do it now.
/python
Box cutters. Also, no shoes allowed in public during the winter.
You ever fall in the river, you'll sink like a rock. LOL!
What's a craft knife?
box cutter
Or this razor-sharp, high-carbon hardened steel Zwilling 12" chef's knife?
Nice. I had a P228, same thing, but more compact. I loved that pistol.
The five-week initiative, running throughout the UK,
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