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Does this mean they are going to ban the knife, maybe regulate it's usage, maybe they can collect them all and you can go and check one out when you need to cook something, then return it after use.

Get real UK elected officials, Step up to the plate now, something has to be done quickly about knife crime. The nephew of a friend was brutally murdered by a knife wielding thug. The young man had stepped out side a house to call his mother on his cell to come collect him from a party, when a stranger (who was passing by) pulled out a knife and murdered him. An innocent youngster on the phone to his mum was left in a pool of blood, dead, and an entire family devastated. The UK government NEEDS to act now to stem the violence perpetuated by those who carry knives with intent to kill or injure.

Just more assurance that, as soon as a gun ban is enforced, criminals find alternate weapons. As painful as it must be, I'd rather be shot with a gun than stabbed, cut, or sliced with a sharp knife. Oftentimes, the person on the bad end of a stabbing doesn't know they've been stabbed or cut until it's too late and they've lost a lot of blood. Ban the knife, out come the baseball bats, hammers, etc. Solve the problem at the root instead of enacting harsher punishments for crimes.

jm, so sorry to hear of your friends loss. However, the UK government or any government cannot stem the violence, if someone is intent on murder, robbery, etc, the government isn't going to stop them, they can implement stricter laws and that is about it, they can ban knives, they can ban guns, they can ban anything they want, but it still won't stop a truly criminal mind...these words of wisdom I have alway found to be so true "laws are for honest people"

Knife control!!! We need Knife control. Register all knives. Have an 18 day waiting period to purchase knives. We can not allow normal humans to obtain, own or use knives. It is a travesty. Ban all knives like we do guns. Knives kill people. Sue the knife manufacturers for making knives that kill. Sounds absurd doesn't it. Just like gun control. Need crime control. Life in prison or more death penalties for murderers.

Oooo, I forgot one. We need personal protection permits to carry knives concealed.

Life has changed a lot in UK. Even the old say " When you are tired of life go to London, and when you are tired of London, you are tired of life"; does not exist anymore.

Weapons bans won't work because criminals don't follow the law. Duh. If everyone was required to own a gun (except criminals: althought they'd probably have a gun anyway) a criminal would think twice before robbing someone, knowing they were packing heat.

Still, with a homicide rate less than 1/5th of ours (per capita, so population differences can be ignored), they are in a better situation than we are here!

How about we just make criminals lives a living hell instead of mollycoddling their sorry butts. Commit a knife crime? Congratulations! You get castrated with your own knife and then a life sentence to contemplate it.

Clearly more knife regulation is needed in the UK. Perhaps a background check should be required for anyone who wants to buy a knife. Perhaps a mandatory three day waiting period should also be instituted.

Digging a little into this story, it appears that these figures which are from the UK's opposition party (any figures released by a political party set off alarm sirens in my head), don't add up at all!

They are comparing a current "sharp objects" rate with previous "knife murder" rates. Seems a tiny technical difference at first, but as articles referenced in a quick google search show, up to a 5th of the "latest rates" are non-knife killings (mainly bottles & glass); whilst non-knife killings aren't even in the old rate. So of course the new rate is going to be higher when your comparing two different sets of figures.

You have to look behind the news poeple! This is yet another example of the same old story of political parties releasing misleading statistics!!!

dlh would "rather be shot with a gun than stabbed, cut, or sliced with a sharp knife."

You're a moron. You are much more likely to die from a gunshot wound than a knife wound. The loss of blood is greater and the damage to internal organs is almost guaranteed with a gunshot wound than a knife wound.

Knife control? And what do you do when people start killing with clubs and rocks etc. etc. People have been killing each other long before the nanny state was invented.

Yep...just as everyone expected. First, a country with gun rights. Then, a few criminals commit crimes with guns. Solution? Don't find a way to fight the crimes, instead ban guns from law-abiding citizens and confiscate them. Does that stop crime? NO! If criminals have trouble getting guns (or choose not to carry one), then they grab knives! Law-abiding citizens are still defenseless, and crime continues. Here's an idea, ban/confisate knives so people don't get stabbed. What comes next? "Assault Rocks" and loss of any common sense in England.

Of course, the liberals will all propose "safety knives" and outlaw sharp edges on anything. Spoons, of course, will become the next weapon of choice and will find themselves similarly outlawed by 2012.

Of course, human nature will not enter into any discussion of violence as the root causes of the violent behaviors out there.

Steve wrote, "And what do you do when people start killing with clubs and rocks etc."
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Well obviously, Steve, we will then need to regulate rocks. Anyone who wishes to own a rock will have to be licensed, and should also be required to carry a permit for their rock, stone, or any pebbles which could be easily concealed. A concealed rock permit will, naturally, required additional licensing.

Brits are really worried about their violent murder rate even though it is just a tiny fraction of what we have in good Ole USA.

Isn't it amazing that everytime we have a gun crime,some snob from England writes how civilized they are,and how violent we are.What a bunch of hypocrites.

...but then, if you tell Britain that they should be invoking the death penalty for this kind of crap, they would never agree to such a horrible response to crime....but then, they have no trouble turning these thugs loose on the population either (parole). If no death penalty, then reopen the Tower of London to TRUE Life Sentences - no Parole at all.

Britain is one of the worst countries in the world. It truly is a terrorist haven for white terrorists. I would not waste my money in that crime infested, miserable country. Its way over rates, the queen sucks in all the wealth, and most whites live in poverty. There is rampant racial attacks and its a horrible place to visit.

yup wack jobs, continue to bash those who recognize they have a problem yet think it's fine for thousands upon thousands to be murdered in this country via the weapon of choice and easy access..... guns.

I've said it a thousand times but I'll repeat it for you wacko's...... If gun crime was rampant on the street corners of white middle and upper class neighborhoods there would be something done about it but since it doesn't happen in your neighborhoods or to your children you could care less. You people really need to get a life. You're sick!!!

Hmmmm.... you think that it's possible that knives and guns have nothing to do with murder rates? Societal misfits are going to find ways to use murder to settle their scores regardless what weapon they use.

Total non-story. 227 deaths in a country with 61 million population. (Or did the writer mean to link the death count to a specific, smaller area). Surely there were 227 people who died after slipping on damp pavement & wet floors. Must be hard to fill a news page - but then there's always the shocked, shocked, shocked person who wants to regulate this or than, save the cats, etc. What drivel.