Posted on 01/26/2025 9:12:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Britain on Sunday said it would force retailers to implement stricter age-verification checks to stop children buying knives, in a tightening of policy days after a teenager admitted killing three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event.
Axel Rudakubana's knife attack in July was described last week as one of the most harrowing moments in Britain's history by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and has triggered a public inquiry into the failings that allowed it to happen.
While that inquiry is expected to focus on why state institutions failed to act on warnings about the killer before his attack, attention has also turned to regulations around buying knives.
Current British laws require retailers to have an age verification system to prevent those aged under 18 from buying knives, but elements of those systems are not clearly defined.
Interior minister Yvette Cooper said in parliament last week it was a disgrace that Rudakubana, who was aged 17 at the time of the attack, had been able to buy a knife online.
On Sunday the government said it would now mandate that retailers check photo identification at both the point of sale and delivery, and that deliveries can only be accepted by the person who placed the order.
“It’s a total disgrace how easy it still is for children to get dangerous weapons online," Cooper said in a statement on Sunday. “It’s too easy to put in false birth dates, parcels are too often being dropped off at a doorstop with no questions asked."
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“Teenager “ my bum.
A knife can be made. Just ask any convict........
I know of people who bring knives into the UK for preparing meals as it’s already next to impossible to find them in stores anymore.
The country is SICK.
Is this the Babylon Bee?
Blaming the knife is going to solve nothing.
Next, licenses for your forge and anyone buying oil who uses the word quench will be taken in for questioning.
Cars, pillows etc. Nothing will change until England gets their own “Donald Trump “ which will never happen. The muzzies own that place.
Ridiculous virtue signalling to idiots. Knives can already be found in every kitchen in the country and even under this proposed legislation all he would have had to do is wait a few days until he turned 18 and then he could have bought one anyway.
Deportations would be far more effective.
The muslims will make their own
Reform UK is according to polls, now the most popular party in the UK, and based on the current trajectory could get a majority.
As it stands they would likely be able to go into coalition with the Tories as the senior partner.
The Tories will go into coalition with labour because Reform is the "far right" party.
What about pointed sticks?
Just put the public in shackles and be done with it.
“Banning knives” is a sign the long-term uniparty and leftist regime in the UK out of answers, and bound for collapse.
Trump needs to back away from these clowns.
Great Britain is a failed state.
Knife control is the stupidest policy ever. I guess the conquered pigmies of the UK will have to eat with plastic sporks.
What next, stick control?
I remember stories out of London about knives being stashed in lots of places by students. They were for self-defense. Get in a jamb walking home from school, run to your nearest knife....so many were doing it that knives were all over the place. I noticed in an area popular with the homeless during the covid lockdown that knives could be found laying around in a local park. And those in the know carried a screwdriver.
Parody can’t keep up with the left.
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