Same with kitchen knives.
No one's going to call for a ban on knives.
Extremists on the left want citizens disarmed. They wants the country disarmed too.
Not because they believe it will stop Russia and China - not because it will stop crime ... but because the 'in' group behind leftist thinking are communists ... I've resisted this kind of thinking - but it's true. Communists are the 'think tank' of the left...
They are in England, at least the type with points.
Knives that can be used for cutting but not stabbing are grudgingly considered acceptable, at least for now.