Ban kitchen knives
London - London's Metropolitan Police (MET) Thursday launched a hard-hitting poster campaign to combat escalating knife crime which has claimed the lives of 15 teenagers in the British capital so far this year. MET chief Ian Blair, describing the level of knife crime as "unacceptable," said ordinary kitchen knives were most commonly used in attacks.
He revealed that more than 200 people had been arrested and almost 200 weapons seized in 4,000 stop-and-search operations over the past two weeks, in which arch metal detectors and handheld scanners were used to spot knife carriers.
"The most common knife involved in these deaths is a knife from the kitchen and we must have conversations about knife crime with teenagers," said Blair.
As this article shows, people will find ways to kill each other no matter how many things you ban or try to control, whether it be guns, knives, or sharp pointy sticks.
posted by davis14633 at 06:13
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Even if you marched everyone out into an open field naked, if someone wanted to they could kill someone with their bare hands.
Trying to ban everyday tools to prevent violence is as pointless as trying to spit on the sun to cool it off. What is the reason for the violence? Work on the cause not the effect or how the effect is implemented.
How true, just look at violence within the prison system. Soon toothbrushes will be banned, oh wait, we are talking about the English, maybe that would explain the situation in England with bad teeth.
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