Posted on 03/14/2019 2:34:01 PM PDT by blam
Tory MP Scott Mann has attracted mockery on social media after calling for strict new knife control measures including for every blade sold in the UK to be fitted with GPS tracking systems.
In a post on the micro-blogging platform Twitter, the representative for North Cornwall went on to declare that Britain should create a “national database” of people who own knives, “like we do with guns”.
Anyone found to have carried a knife outside their property “had better have a bloody good explanation”, Mr Mann wrote, adding that there could be “obvious exceptions” for activities such as fishing.
Responses to the MP’s suggestion included ridicule, as well as many questions not only on the considerable expense of fitting every knife sold with GPS tracking equipment small enough to fit into the handles, but also over the practicality of monitoring tens of millions of knives considering the UK’s high population density and the fact such systems are accurate only to about five metres, or just over 16 feet.
Surging knife violence including a fivefold increase in machete attacks over the past three years has led to a significant crackdown on blades in Britain, with many stores voluntarily taking kitchen knives off the shelves as lawmakers call for an increasing number of restrictions to tackle the problem.
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Better have plans to outlaw all metals and rocks, because that’s all it takes to make a knife.
Strange anyone can still buy a nail gun in the UK.
Dem wacky Brits are at it again.
Doesn’t inspire much confidence that a party called the ‘Conservative Party’ ,which has control freak kooks like this in it, is all that conservative.
Like to see them attach GPS trackers on all the rocks....
HHGFwewe!! morons....
I guess the people they’re worried about aren’t smart enough to to grind a file or piece of leaf spring into a knife.
The immigrants won’t turn in their knives or other weapons.
Criminals here all have illegal guns.
Butt, butt, butt......what about the cost of retrofitting existing nives? LOL? Or is that knaves.
What about Chainsaws?
Are Machete’s considered knives?
Does that include butter knives?
What about restaurant take out plastic knives>
Putty knives?
Box cutters?
Mack the Knife?
Barber equipment?
Surgical instruments?
Reciprocating saws?
Jigsaws? (It’s a puzzle!)
Edged weapons have been a "cottage industry" in Great Britain since long before Hadrian's Wall.
It would be a lot easier to tag and track the muslims than knives.
how about making bear spray legal in the UK? with all the bears on the street lately, it should come in quite handy
But I have a question - London is the most surveilled city in the world - they brag about it - so why aren’t the perps identified and arrested?
scissors are the second choice currently. Followed by baseball bats, tire irons and pry bars.
Which just goes to show, ban one weapon, gain 10 more.
I think “Tory MP Scott Mann” defines the term “F***ing Moron” to a tee.
Waiting for the day the Brits remember they’re MEN and start stringing these traitor bastards who put them in this lunatic situation from the trees.
If they can construct makeshift knives in prisons, one of the most secure places imaginable, think of what a determined individual could do out in the world.
Don’t laugh too hard; it’s coming here if they fail at complete gun confiscation and “smart bullets”, or whatever they’re called. They’ll do anything they can to disarm US. And I do mean anything.
Every time I see this sort of stuff I keep thinking back to Archie Bunker...” would it make you feel any better if they was pushed out windas?”
Put a tag on it like a mattress.
They cracked down on collapsible batons in 2011, and the sale of baseball bats soared by 5000%. Surprisingly, sales of balls and gloves didn’t show a similar increase.
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