Scottish Housewives must surrender knives.

I guess where the people do not have the freedom to possess defensive handguns, they risk murder by knife. When knives are confiscated I wonder if death by pencil/pens will become an issue. Kind of hard to confiscate all of those. I wonder if next year we see an "amnestly" day for turning in hands and fingers.:D

The article was not clear about what knives are to be turned in? Is it legal top posess knives at home, is the carrying of knives banned, or only certain types/styles of knives?

"No one leaves home with the intention of becoming a murderer but that's the chance you take if you carry a knife."

Wow, I'm just stunned. This sounds like a Monty Python skit.
 
i wonder how many % the murders would go down if the people in scotland had no hands, ban hands..
 
Typical of politicians; it's easier for them to ban things than to work on solving the roots of problems.
 
Thats really sad.
Im not sure whether to cry, or laugh? People need to take personal responsibilty and stop blaming "inatimate objects" on crime.

Anything can be dangerous if not used responsibly!
Moral decline is what is wrong in society these days, not objects!!!

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"No one leaves home with the intention of becoming a murderer but that's the chance you take if you carry a knife."

So the average citizen carrying a knife, looses their temper and "knifes" someone? Wow, sure are allot of "potential murderers out there? If you are "loosing" your temper and going to kill someone, chances are, you will find something to use, whether its a pen, car, bat, etc. I honestly cannot see the logic in such a riducous statement.

I cannot fathom this making any logical sense!

That is sad, and ridculous!!
 
The problem is in Glasgow. There is a long tradition of using knives in this city.

True, half of all murders in Glasgow involve knives, usually lock knives or kitchen knives, used by young gang members fighting to protect their 'territory'.

The police do not understand that some youngsters go out in fear of attack every day, especially in certain neighbourhoods. A few months back, a young man, not a gang member, was stabbed in broad daylight just because he was on the 'wrong street'.

The police just want all knives handed over, to reduce the supply of weapons.

But, you can still buy knives in several shops in the city, you can still get them from the kitchen or from the garage or from ebay, for God's sake.

The police are just looking for some good public relations, with photos to show they are 'tackling the problem'.

Everyone knows that they are only dealing with the symptoms, not the problem.

If they could break up the gangs and lock up the drug dealers they work for, there would no lolnger be a knife problem.
 
The idea is youths carrying them on the streets hand them in during the "amnesty"so getting the knifes off the street.The last people who are going to hand them in is the villians.At the end of the day i think a ploy to make up numbers and have something to show on the t.v. at the end of the amnesty.Neither i or my My wife will be handing anything in.From my neck of the woods one word.PISH.
 
Did you click on the link on that page that shows the guy with his nose almost cut off? Ouch!
 
DGG said:
This is so sad it is funny. The Scots have one month to turn in their butcher knives or else it is off to the pokey with them!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4691634.stm
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Butcher knives are illegal? Where does it say that?

How are you supposed to make supper?

Edited to add that I looked into it a little because it sounded inane and all the articles linking to this article dealt with carrying knives on your person. Apparently that is illiegal in Scotland, but it is not illegal to own a butcher knife and you won't be sent to jail for having one in your kitchen.
 
It's always annoying to see this kind of action. Taking things away from people solves nothing. They need to figure out why the people are using certain items in a criminal way to begin with and deal with that problem.
 
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This isn't sad - it's insane. What I don't understand is why people would comply, or even tolerate this behavior from the government. I guess I'm too old to ever be able to understand that. Looks to me like it's time for a little revolution.
Bob
 
Knives are dangerous. What about axes, sledgehammers,razors, scissors, pens, rocks. I think all rocks has to be removed from the country, just to be safe.
Better safe than sorry.
R
 
Shann said:
Butcher knives are illegal? Where does it say that?

How are you supposed to make supper?

Edited to add that I looked into it a little because it sounded inane and all the articles linking to this article dealt with carrying knives on your person. Apparently that is illiegal in Scotland, but it is not illegal to own a butcher knife and you won't be sent to jail for having one in your kitchen.
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Shann -

I don't know what you call those knives in the picture but in my house they are referred to as butcher or chef knives.

Eh!?
 
Since it was in the news not that long ago that England was working toward banning long-bladed kitchen knives, it's not that far a stretch to think that the Scots might have something similar applied to their subjects too. Especially since the Scots have a history of using knives, swords, tree trunks, and big rocks as personal weapons of war (not to mention kilts and bagpipes!)

Matt in Texas
 
DGG said:
Shann -

I don't know what you call those knives in the picture but in my house they are referred to as butcher or chef knives.

Eh!?
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In my house, (left to right) I would call them bayonet, khukri, dagger, chefs or boning knife, unknown (looks a little like a folding marlinspike), chefs knife, pommel dagger, sheepsfoot\sailor's knife and red handled dagger.

I'm not agreeing that these knives should be illegal, its just that when I read the stories, they are talking about people carrying knives, not a butcher's knife in somebody's kitchen being taken and the wife carted off to jail.
 
Shann-

Good eyes. I just focused on the big hummers that probably came from mom's kitchen.

Now if we cut off all the fingers except for the forefinger and the thumb then nobody would have the strength to hold one of these deadly weapons and we would all live happily after!
 
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