Posted on 04/09/2018 2:45:03 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a tough crackdown on knives Sunday as the city reels from a spike in stabbings that have led its number of homicides to top New York City's for two straight months.
He tweeted: “No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.”
The tweet also included an action plan to boost police power and prevent future violenceLondon has seen more than 50 homicides already in 2018.
Most of the city’s murder victims have been stabbed to death, as guns are tightly restricted in Britain and shootings are relatively rare.
If the bloody trend continues, London will far surpass the 130 murders in 2017 and reach a number not seen since the early 2000s.
In February and March, London hit the unwanted milestone of recording more homicides than New York, the first time in modern history, as Fox News previously reported.
The cities are roughly the same size, with more than 8 million people, and have similar extremes of poverty and wealth, but London has never recorded more murders in a year than the U.S. metropolis. New York had 290 homicides in 2017, the lowest number in decades.
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Especially in the UK, where it's never enforced.
It’s so simple. Ban Muslims.
Progressives: Always attack the symptom, never attack the disease.
You can’t have too many knives.
Might want to check with the Boy Scouts on that point, Lord Mayor. . .
Any mention of banning nun chuks or throwing stars? london is becoming a song... “Everybody is Kung Fu fighting”
Sean Davis Tweet:
Old and busted: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
New hotness: Nobody needs a knife.
Feckless geldings.
https://t.co/oqq96CqLsl—; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) Tweet: April 8, 2018
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When will there ever be another Churchill?
When I visited London 25 years ago, it was quite safe for a big city. The demographics have changed quite a bit since then, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with the soaring violent crime rate.
Never. The last "man" in the UK died in a Spitfire over the Channel.
You will get a lot of George Michael s and Mohammedans though.
Darn. I have fond memories touring London while carrying around a vial of Nitric acid and now...oh, wait. I still can. Well, as long as I am older than 18 to buy it...
This doesn’t go far enough. They need to proactively ban screwdrivers, hammers, bricks and rocks.
You can bet Khan never leaves home without his detail carrying some serious weapons.
Khan knows there's a passel of Muslims who want him gone for kissing up to all those Brit infidels to get elected.
listen....a wise man speaketh....
No one ever needs a gun.
No one ever needs a knife
No one ever needs a club
Welcome aboard. Please climb on the train car to your secret vacation destination with all of your neighbors.
Ban oboes!
And when knives are made illegal in Britain the next target will be cricket bats.
I suppose they never have boxes that need opening, or cellophane wrappers, or...
My pocket knife is blessed with many uses that don’t involve drawing blood.
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