ThatDamnedPanda
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda OK, from reading the article and following a couple of links.... some guy was killed with a knife at an ATM 4 years ago, and now it's illegal for teenagers in Great Britain to own a knife? And there are people who want to ban knives altogether? That's insane. Or am I missing the part of this that's supposed to make sense ? No Its you, missing the part that makes sense, you dont even show the statistics in the link you mentioned, but instead choose to cherry pick the points you wanted. You even state that knives were banned after a guy was stabbed to death at a cash machine, which isnt the case and wasnt mentioned in the link you suppossedly read. From the link in the OP : quote:
Home Office figures show that knives were involved in 22,151 violent offences in 2007-08. Cherry-picking? What am I cherry-picking? I didn't mention the statistics because without context, a single data point has no relevance to me. That statistic is meaningless, and of no use whatsoever in trying to figure out the historical inspiration for this law. The rest of the article is equally useless, offering no historical background other than a reference to the murder of the man in 2005. From that, I inferred that there may be a connection between that incident and whatever law was apparently broken, but that's not clear, thus the question - what am I missing? What's the background, the history behind this law? I followed a couple of links from the article, and spent 20 minutes trying to find the answers, but to no avail. Maybe to those of you who live in the UK, this is more familiar and easier to understand, but for someone in the US - who is learning about this issue for the first time - it sounds like an idiotic law, especially in the absence of any explanation as to why someone somewhere decided it was necessary. quote:
ORIGINAL: Politesub53 Its illegal to sell knives to under 18s, which is what the trading standards were looking at. I dont agree knife sales online should be banned, but current laws on selling to under 18s should be enforced, on or off the internet. Well, it's your country, and if that's the way you folks decide you want to run it, it's your call. I'm certainly not saying otherwise. But that doesn't mean I don't think it's ludicrous.
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