Do all Brits carry around knives?
 

LOL. I'm sorry to laugh but it's really kind of funny... what's up with all of the knife action?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080720...sjUm821vaA8 F

Just saw this on Gizmodo

Wasp Knife

A knife that can make your organs explode

uh oh time to outlaw knives next. They got the guns stopped thank GOD!! After that all corkscrews and salad tongs will be the next to go.

thats what happens when you ban guns :2 cents::2 cents::2 cents::2 cents:

nope, the Quuen walks around with a machete

I guess the next step is requiring a license for a paring knife?

that wasp knife looks cool. one hit and you're dead.

The biggest problem with our country is our lack of punishment.

My old next door neighbour knifed his housemate to death for "not paying his rent".

He got 4 years. He'll serve 2.

"We have seen the emergence of a worrying trend in relation to knife crime," said Scotland Yard's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alf Hitchcock.

It's illegal to carry a blade here in Australia. Good thing to.

All you people who think you should be able to arm yourself with guns and knives are morons. How many gun related deaths are there in England? Almost zero. How about in the US?

Why do people hate watermelons so much?

WHAT? I thought the UK was a lot safer than the US. Matter of fact, I was planning on moving over there later on in life because I've always enjoyed visiting. But visiting is a lot different than living. .... Bad idea?

the lower class brits (which are the majority) have always been known to be violent pieces of shit, google soccer hooligans, england has the worst by far

Guns are not banned. Handheld guns generally used for killing people are banned. You can own rifles and shotguns under licenses.

The UK is seriously not a dangerous place to be, as long as you stay away from the rough areas. It is like the USA, you could say it is a fairly safe place - but not if you're in Harlem.

England doesn't have the worst, take the Turkish fans for example...

Knife attcks have always been there (same as any other country), the press just started covering it a hell of a lot more.

You know the majority of Brits do you?

Killing someone with a knife is much more personal than killing someone with a gun. But its sick, people don't get punished enough for their crimes. I use to carry a knife around, for safety, but to be honest, no real point. Only gets you into more shit if you take it out. Lot of morons out there.

bring back margaret thatcher(the iron lady) she takes no shit.

yeap pretty much

why doesnt the same thing happen in the rest of european western countries then? Dumbass gun lovers.

Yes, all Brits carry knives.

If by 'all' you mean 'a tiny minority that the press has totally blown up'.

please tell me you're kidding, there's no place on Earth where you get less than 10 years for murder (excluding self defence n shit)

Come to the UK! You hear of people murdering others and pleading guilty to a reduced charge. It saves the courts time and money so they give them 8 years in Jail. You'll be out in 4. Our Country is in a mess. Judges are scared to put people in Jail coz they are overcrowded.

It seems pretty obvious that for the overall good of society that the UK needs to ban all knives....... forks can also be dangerous so they might want to look into banning those too.

Yep the great UK is not so great anymore. Its a mess and its getting worse. They keep telling us violent crime is falling but that is far from the truth.

This country is in a mess.... there are major major issues that need to be dealt with and until they start renting prison space abroad and shipping the more serious criminals out to dirty, stinking prisons in India there's always gonna be a problem with overcrowding in the UK prisons which tax payers are paying a fortune for.

The worst thing about the uk is some of the posters above, moan, old usually failed and thats all they have left to do.

"The country is in a mess" do you know what a mess is? Zimbabwe is a mess, Iraq is a mess, large parts of America is a mess, there is very little mess here. 30 drug dealing teens stabbing each other to death a year is not a fucking mess, more than 100 people die from guns EVERY DAY in america, that is just with guns. Brits are so over dramatic and moan non stop. You do realise when the papers says oh no another teen stabbed to death, this same teen has a criminal record as long as your arm and if it wasnt him killed he would only be killing someone else. Granted the odd few get killed who are normal people and dont deserve it but your never gonna have a country without that.

What are you talking about? Show some sources, very rarely would someone get under 15 years for murder and that is a light sentence, if someone is getting 8 years theres more to the case than just murder. But i think your just being a typical scot and being a little bitch.

Are you really saying that Western countries cannot complain about crime simply because there is bombings in Iraq and political murders in Zimbabwe?

That's pretty... mediocre...

If you ban guns then only the outlaws will be carrying them..
If you ban knives only the outlaws will be carrying them...

Laws like that only keep guns and knives out of LAW abiding citizens hands. If I wanted to kill somebody I can drive to a ghetto and pickup an unregistered gun easily and dispose of it in a drain pipe, river or ANYWHERE. You simply can't do anything to keep the guns out of the hands of people wanting to commit crimes. You can only pass laws to keep them out of the hands of people wanting to protect themselves.

the #1 reason why this country will NEVER face a ground invasion is because they know we all have guns and most of us know how to shoot them...

I would say the number one reason is because we are a essentially surrounded by water... Mexico and Canada are not going to do anything. Do you really think a trained military is not going to attack simply because Bob has a 9 mm in his nightstand?

Nobody is going to launch a ground invasion on France either... they don't have guns.

We are talking about the likes of 30 fatal stabbings A YEAR. Compared to hundreds of murders PER DAY in america. Yes im telling you we the uk do not have a right to moan (as much as we do). People here act as if its the end of the world, because in shit parts of the country shit people are killing each other. Crime in the uk is actually not that bad at all.

If only EVERYONE carried a knife, I'm sure there would be less knife violence.

There was an actor from the upcoming HARRY POTTER movie that was stabbed to death earlier this year in London. And then there was a British Heavyweight Boxer who was knifed to death last year... Just shows you how common these knife attacks are. 21 deaths... but over 21,000 actual knife attacks. I wonder how many of those were seriously injured. In any case, it doesn't look good for London. Hope they can somehow curb the problem.

Compare capital cities of other countries to london and violent crime here is right at the bottom.

Never been to the UK, never been to the US ghettos either... so I don't really know much about how really it is there... but... personally I just don't understand and can't agree with violence and crime seen on the street in the developed countries.

I am totally against giving up civil liberties (governments getting more and more data about their citizens, monitoring correspondence etc etc) but at the same time I am totally for increased police patrols and really punishing all these wannabe wiggers or niggas who have too much of free time and start trouble.

Really, I think that in the developed world (US, Canada, EU etc) there shouldn't be ANY places where you just can't feel safe.

Getting stabbed because you don't give someone a cig is really a horrible thing and there should be zero tolerance for such behavior. Criminals should be put in jails for years and prevention at an early level should take place, but I guess the problem is the education, the media, bad parenting and lots of other things.

Well, I don't really deal with the low-class scum (look at my nick :winkwink: ) but I just want to feel safe everywhere.

That's one of the crucial things that should distinguish the modern world from the 3rd world.
You should be safe on the streets in the major cities, even at night.

Well not sure how I sound, perhaps too idealistic. Really, it pisses me off so much to hear about stupidity, violence and cruelty. I don't want to sound old but I wonder often about where the world is going.

I agree completely. All these people saying our country is a mess, fuck me I am grateful I live in the UK and I think everyone else who lives here should be too.

Yes I know. But it was quite surprising to hear it when these attacks began to rise in London last year. I didn't say anything in my post that said London was high in comparision. What I said is hopefully it doesn't get too bad, and that they can find a way to prevent from getting worse. I was just sad to hear that because I've been to England several times in my life. I know how peaceful it is there.

If everyone carried salad tongs there would be a lot less rogue lettuce attacking senior citizens.. :2 cents:

You base your assumption on what you found on fucking GOOGLE!!! Well there's a well presented, fully researched argument if ever I saw one. And as for lower class, YOU'RE the one with the redneck flag, now THAT'S classy :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Whats also funny is he mentions "soccer" hooligans when its pretty much been eradicated here for a long time, england no way has the worst "soccer" hooligans anymore in fact we have probably the least "soccer" violence out of any other countries professional leagues. His research is very outdated.

Do all Americans carry around Big Macs?
 

It's when someone getting stabbed stops making headlines we'll know our countries in trouble.

It's my guess there hasn't been any significant rise in violent crime but the tabloid press has got hold of it and are blowing it way out of proportion. As the guy said above, us Brits love a good moan and are the first in line when it comes to putting our own country down.