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 ...
Common sense sharp stick control is next.
At some point there will be nothing left to ban so the problem will disappear ... or at least that is the hope of those who govern in the Third World of UK.
Right!!! Well then... henceforth, all things sharp will be banned, and all things pointy shall also be banned, and anything that is sharp AND pointy is right out!!! Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!
Well, lets see... that about cover it then???
Blunt objects are the new killer.
Let’s not forget banana control. It’s critical to a civilized society.
Or plastic silverware.
There needs to be a social media campaign to inform the British Embassy in Washington that millions of Americans regard UK as too dangerous a place to ever visit, given the growing domination of Britain by Islam, and the sad acquiescence of the British government to Sharia law.
Britons who believe in gun rights & liberty should be publicly invited to emigrate to America. Their country is finished.
yup, they'll need better car and truck control soon
If they just make everyone wear handcuffs and bulky mittens while in public, that would cut way down on violent attacks and murders.....
Restaurants are being required to cut everyone’s food for them and the wait staff has a right to carry permit.
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