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Originally Posted by willtel

I understand some of the concern from you guys but you also need to understand that the UK is quite different than the US as far as knife crime is concerned. Guns aren't nearly as plentiful over there so knives have become the choice of thugs and punks and the UK certainly has no shortage of those. Hell, they have actually considered banning pint glasses in pubs because of people being "glassed" and disfigured or killed in bar fights.

Many of the crimes are also committed by teens against other teens. Over here we have thugs with 9s and over there they use knives, it is simply a different culture.

start the 'knife control', everyone is mandated to turn in their knives. then i will be 'cricket bat' control, etc.