Posted on 01/22/2025 6:31:57 PM PST by fluorescence
Ministers are planning a major overhaul to how knives are bought online after Southport triple killer Axel Rudakubana purchased weapons off Amazon before carrying out a sickening rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party.
Rudakubana, who on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, bought the kitchen knife used in the attack from Amazon when he was 17 despite having a conviction for violence.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the House of Commons yesterday that it was a 'disgrace' that Rudakubana was able to buy knives on Amazon - including two purchased a fortnight before the attack - so easily despite being under 18.
Rudakubana, who has since turned 18, has admitted carrying a knife more than 10 times.
Under plans being considered by the Home Office, buyers would need to submit an ID document to online retailers and record a live video or selfie to prove their age.
Currently, customers ordering knives on Amazon must enter their date of birth and are told that 'proof of age and signature will be required on delivery'.
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As well as clamping down on knife sales, social media firms were also ordered to take down 'dangerous' online material blamed for fuelling Rudakubana's obsession with violence.
Ms Cooper told the tech giants the Government would not tolerate them 'profiting from hosting content that puts children's lives at risk'.
The Home Secretary said an 'online ecosystem' was 'radicalising our children while safety measures are whittled away'.
Sir Keir Starmer said the Southport murders were 'not a one-off' and that Britain faced a new threat of 'extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms'.
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Obviously a garbage s hole POS Somali murdered white Christian folk because he got a knife on Amazon. Same for garbage violent s hole afghanis in Germany. Nah... it’s not that their garbage dna is inherently violent and exploited by the s hole cult of Islam....
Kind of like it is here, but way worse.
Or pieces of steel bar stock, grinders and hack saws.
Not hard to make a functional knife in a few hours.
New solution for controlling food consumption, too: Lock up the UK’s kitchens!
When only kitchens have knives, only criminals will have kitchens.
England, England!!
How far you have fallen.
A people whose forefathers once ruled the oceans and much of the world are now not allowed to own a gun or buy a knife.
Coming next - confiscation of all non-plastic knives, forks and spoons.
The only ones allowed to carry weapons in modern-day England are muslim immigrants.
I would try hanging the perps in front of the Tower of London, which would be more effective.
I would try hanging the perps in front of the Tower of London, which would be more effective.
Sharpened sticks and stones over an ounce to follow.
A file, if it comes to it, of course the file itself makes an excellent knife once properly shaped.
Yep. There are YouTubers on how to do this.
Now the UK has knife control. Serialize every knife in the UK and register them! If it saves just one life....
What about pointed sticks?
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