How they view the "knife threat" in Britain

[srothstein]

The ultimate in scared sheeple. Someone should post a comment with a link to a concealed carry garment web site and we can all watch the US bashing to follow.

Now that is an idea. We could even spice it up based on their knife problem. Maybe we could talk 5.11 into mounting a pistol on a chain in their concealment vest. Khaki vest gets a 1911, black vest gets a Glock or some similar scheme. I am up for it.

[Boma]

Slightly silly to ban all knives - a blanket ban will stopp people from legally buying kitchen knives and carrying them home! Or people like myself who carry a swiss army knife - not to threaten or harm anyone, but because the attachements aer useful! Instead of a bn on carrying, why not look at the causes of the problem - why is criminal behaviour on the rise? What are the underlying causes that are making these people so miserable or confused that they feel the need to (or do not understand the problem with) stabbing and attacking people? But as always, the British govenment deals with symptoms, not diseases, because it is easier.

Marianne, London, London

at least one person over there gets it.

[Boma]

Remarkably, the store took the initial decision to sell the jackets just one year after one of its own female members of staff was stabbed to death at work.

Rina Panchall, 26, died at a store in Thurmaston, Leics, after being knifed 11 times by an illegal immigrant.

Notice they blammed the Knife instead of the illegal immigrant....

Attacking the symptom and not the disease!

[Rugrash]

I think they need to rebuild the UK out of NERF and put helmets on everyone.

-Rug

[Rokyudai]

Rugrash,

But then the streets will run with foam! Think of the children man!

[drinks]

The really pitiful part is in the mid 1800s, the London city council , cheap varmits that they were, refused to buy guns for police, explaining that if a constable needed a gun, he could just borrow one from a bystander.

[Paladin]

A few years ago, I thought it was just rhetoric that after guns were banned, the anti's would go after knives...

This article and the comments attached to it clearly prove me wrong.

Once the British had an empire that spanned the globe... now they will make somebody a nice, submissive colony...

God Bless Texas

[Furyataurus]

So Britan got rid of guns so that old saying "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight" can't be used anymore, so what can they use now? "Don't bring a twig/stick to a knife fight"?

[txflyer]

So Britan got rid of guns so that old saying "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight" can't be used anymore, so what can they use now? "Don't bring a twig/stick to a knife fight"?

Well after they outlaw knives, the clubs will be next. Eventually every Brit will have to have their hands removed at birth so they can't hold a weapon. After all, people don't kill, it's the hands that kill.