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9 February 2006
KNIFE AMNESTY LAUNCHED

By Richard Elias

A NATIONWIDE knife amnesty to end the carnage on our streets was launched yesterday.

The five-week initiative, running throughout the UK, is aimed at repeating the success of Operation Blade, which took thousands of weapons off the streets of Strathclyde in 1993.

Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson yesterday vowed it would be just one of many measures to battle knife crime in Scotland.

Victims of the scourge have included policeman Lewis Fulton, knifed through the heart in Glasgow in 1994 as he tried to arrest a teenage schizophrenic.

Knives are becoming an increasing menace in the hands of young girls, too.

Kirsty Nisbet, from Edinburgh, was just 14 when she needed 89 stitches after a former friend slashed her with a craft knife in 2002, leaving her scarred for life.

Jamieson added: "We have seen the impact of Operation Blade and I want to see that replicated throughout Scotland."


She appealed to those who carry knives: "Use the amnesty as an opportunity to put this behind you and stop more young people being killed or maimed."


Launching the amnesty for England and Wales, Home Secretary Charles Clarke said: "Every weapon handed in will be a weapon that cannot be used in crime.
 
why not just ban the *source* of the problem.....

the Human mind, all these problems are caused by sentience (bad sentience, but still...)
;)

what's next, banning fresh fruit and pointed sticks?....
 
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Zamyatin, Evgeny Ivanovich
(1884-1937)​

Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia My (1924, We) prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949). The book was considered a “malicious slander on socialism” in the Soviet Union, and it was not until 1988 when Zamjatin was rehabilitated. In the English-speaking world My has appeared in several translations.
 
There is only one solution to this problem:

An outright ban on "craft knives", schizophrenia, and especially young girls. Schizophrenic young girls with craft knives should be super duper ultra banned and that should be placed on their permanent record! :rolleyes:
 
If you buy a knife from a store in Glasgow you will be asked to sign a register and give your address. This info. will be sent to the police to hold on file. A few years ago, when I still lived there, I tried to buy a SAK, the Waiter model, just to replace one I'd lent to a friend who had dropped it in the Clyde. When the register book was produced I refused to sign it and politely pointed out that no law mandated that I had to. Well the store clerk looked at me as if I were some kind of psycho, snatched the knife from the counter and very angrily told me that those were the rules. I suggested he do a little reading on the history and nature of various police states. However, I feel that he was less than amenable to my suggestion...
In Britain the law abiding citizen is completely unarmed and vulnerable to criminals 24/7. At least you guys in the States have half a chance to defend yourselves and your loved ones.
Never give up those rights.
 
I haven't been in England in a number of years and would like to know what the laws are regarding carrying a pocket knife in Great Britain. My daily carry knife is a Strider SMF and I'm assuming that won't be in my pocket. I have smaller blades but they all lock...do I need to buy something like Spyderco's UK Pen Knife?

Thanks for the help.
 
To quote Prof. Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service;

"There is a long term trend in Western Civilization to grind down, crush, and destroy the individual"

Toe sucking Limeys have got it coming for losing control of their government. Double plus good. Stepladders are next. Bring it on.
 
It's a shame that we who carry knives with perfectly innocent intentions are frowned upon. i never leave home with out a sak or a folder in my pocket, but as soon as i lend it to anyone i am seen as a phsyco. there must be hundreds out there in the uk like me who have the same problem. better understanding and education is needed.......
 
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