Posted on 02/19/2025 2:28:23 PM PST by grundle
Stricter rules for selling knives online and tougher penalties for those who break them will make a difference, the sister of a teenager killed with a ninja sword has said.
The new measures announced by the government will be known as Ronan's Law - after 16-year-old Ronan Kanda who was murdered close to his home three years ago after being stabbed in the back and chest in a case of mistaken identity.
"On the day of my brother's murder, his murderer had no problem with collecting the knives from the local post office," Nikita Kanda told Radio 4's Today programme, adding "no checks" had been made.
It comes as policing minister, Dame Diana Johnson on Thursday pledged all potential avenues will be explored as part of the government's mission to halve knife crime over the next decade.
Ronan was killed by fellow school pupil Prabjeet Veadhesa, after he visited a friend's house to buy a PlayStation controller in June 2022.
A trial heard his attacker, who was also 16, at the time had mistaken him for his friend, their intended victim.
He used a 22-inch sword he had ordered online using his mother's ID to pass security checks.
It was one of nearly 30 knives and machetes he had bought using the same method over several months.
As part of the new rules which are to be introduced in the spring, retailers across England and Wales will be required to report any bulk or suspicious knife purchases to police.
The jail term for selling weapons to under-18s will increase from six months to two years and a new policing unit backed with £1m of funding to monitor for weapons being sold illegally on social media will also be created.
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Yes. They will move to screw drivers.
Yeah, yeah. we’ve all heard that “blah, blah” BS before....morons.
Zip ties and duct tape will be outlawed next.
“I’m going to cut your heart out with a spoon!”—some famous Englishman.
Sure, just like gun laws and drug laws stop crime.
It doesn’t.
All it does is give the authorities the ability to deal with it when it happens.
If there were only common since nail in a board laws…
A flat file and a piece of scrap metal: instant shiv.
What about pointed sticks?
Boneheads all of em. Hammers, screw drivers, branches off trees, pens, pencils, hair pins, forks, broken glass, hand saw, long screws…
You’ll poke your eye out, kid!
What about a bunch of bananas?
First, they came for the guns. Then for the knives. Then baseball bats. Screw drivers. Leather belts. Keys. Bricks. Soda cans. Oh, where does it end!
Outlaw rocks!
The government will start issuing pieces of rope - whites only.
There was a time in England, 1181 AD, when all English citizens had to appear before the King with their personal armaments for the defense of England. It was called the ASSIZE OF ARMS.
Now the English have been so disarmed the moslems are marching in and taking over without a shot being fired.
Got to get rid of all trees lest someone sharpens a stick.
Nope they won’t. They will just make life more difficult for law abiding people.
It is nearing time, for the Brit’s to bring more Gurkha’s with their Kukri’s to England.
It would end the street slime murdering unarmed citizens.
Just more liberal buy s
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