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Major UK Retailer Bans Kitchen Knife Sales in Answer to Violent Crime Wave
breitbart ^ | VIRGINIA HALE

Posted on 07/06/2018 8:20:12 AM PDT by davikkm

Britain’s Poundland discount chain has announced it will stop selling kitchen knives in all of its stores to help tackle soaring youth violence. The company, whose stores have been a major fixture on UK high streets since 1990, is the first major retailer to go ahead with the anti-knife measure recently recommended by a judge, and other brands are expected to follow suit, according to the Birmingham Mail.

As of Friday, kitchen knives are no longer available at any of its 59 West Midlands branches, Poundland said, noting that the ban will be extended to all 850 UK stores by the end of the year.

Reportedly suffering “epidemic” levels of violence, the West Midlands has the fastest growing rate of knife crime outside London, where the company banned blade sales in April after the capital saw 35 deadly stabbings in the just first few months of 2018.

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KEYWORDS: europejihad; kitchenknives; uk
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To: Simon Green

Saw the Monty Python thing last night, and now this. If those boys (or anyone else for that matter) had an ounce of energy and funny left in them, they would make a movie mocking the sorts of things that are going on in their country today, much like back in the 70’s they had such fun mocking Christianity and traditional ‘values’ and such. But no, they won’t do that.

They’ll just whine about how the crocodile has finally gotten around to eating them.


41 posted on 07/06/2018 9:47:28 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: davikkm

Usually when a person posts an article from “The Onion” the fact it is satire gets a mention.

Oh wait.


42 posted on 07/06/2018 9:48:59 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: davikkm

Gonna be fun watching the UK go down. The Trump baloon put up by the muslim mayor. The prime minister may doing nothing about it. The UK keeping Robert Spencer and Michael Savage out, but inviting millions of shreiking savages in. 4 years to go before they rip the St George Cross out of the flat.


43 posted on 07/06/2018 9:49:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: davikkm

Now to be serious. They would be better off banning the sale of all sharp pointy objects to certain members of the population. But that common sense solution will never happen.


44 posted on 07/06/2018 9:51:01 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Or sharp wit?


45 posted on 07/06/2018 9:51:57 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: A strike
The British should sever all forefingers at birth as they can be pointed like a GUN.

Didn't they try that in Guy Fawkes' day? Chop off the middle finger of the archers so that they couldn't use a bow?

46 posted on 07/06/2018 10:14:01 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: kaktuskid; davikkm

47 posted on 07/06/2018 10:20:06 AM PDT by 4Liberty (illegal immigration is a "process" crime too....)
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To: davikkm

On line vendor by mail

48 posted on 07/06/2018 10:20:47 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In August our cities will be burning))
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To: LydiaLong
How will Brits cut their steaks?

Your Mum will have to do that for you. You'll be eating it with a spoon, too, not one of those dangerous forks.

49 posted on 07/06/2018 10:28:20 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: davikkm

British food is so lousy there’s no reason to eat anyway.


50 posted on 07/06/2018 10:57:24 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: davikkm

That would be like Dollar Tree stop selling knives...how stupid...


51 posted on 07/06/2018 11:21:58 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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If y’all don’t think we don’t have Knife control here in the US, you are sadly mistaken.


52 posted on 07/06/2018 12:29:23 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: davikkm

then they’ll just stick a fork in it. So shall we ban forks, too? I don’t recall London having a knife problem before say, 2000, so how’s about deporting the knife and acid cults instead?


53 posted on 07/06/2018 12:55:55 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: davikkm

I guess Britons will have to use bananas to cut their food now?


54 posted on 07/06/2018 1:00:41 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.)
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To: Professional Engineer

Brits have Gone BANANAS!


55 posted on 07/06/2018 1:40:20 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: davikkm

lol, the UK has some serious issues it needs to address like pronto, yo.....


56 posted on 07/06/2018 2:07:43 PM PDT by cranked
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To: davikkm
What about banning screwdrivers, hammers, and rocks?

They murder people every year too!

57 posted on 07/06/2018 2:42:27 PM PDT by Gritty (This is what the other side is all about. Hate and bullshit is their political platform.-DJ Trump Jr)
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To: KyCats

Feed they all Soylent Green tablets. Problem solved in 2 ways.


58 posted on 07/06/2018 2:42:38 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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