This woman isn’t against gangsters, she is afraid of knives. Britain is going bonkers trying to stop the “knife culture”.
But it isn’t a “knife culture” or a “gun culture” that is the problem. It is a “selfish culture” that is the problem.
People without morals who will do whatever they want to get everything they want.
Knives aren’t the problem, the violent greed and pride that inhabits those kids that stab each other for profit or bragging rights is the problem.
Lyn Costello doesn’t want to see the evil the British society has bred, so she is vilifying inanimate objects.
She think only criminals should be carrying weapons, and that carrying a knife for self defense is worse than the criminal carrying it.
Well said! And it’s not a ‘switch blade’ - i.e. an auto-opening knife - we’re talking about here, but a one-handed knife, where a thumb stud or similar is used to deploy the blade.
My EDC is a Chris Reeve Sebenza. Arguably the best folder on the market. And I consider it a tool rather than a weapon.
A knife is one of the oldest tools known to mankind. It has many uses. Only the mindset makes it into a weapon.
Sadly, the UK has gone down the deep end on that topic as well. No guns = knives. No knives = forks(?). No forks = pointed sticks. No pointed sticks = fresh fruit (Monty Python). Etc. Major FAIL to recognize it’s the people, not the objects.