I don’t want to seem like I am dancing on graves. I’m not.
However, I do believe that this London murder spree has come really when the zeitgeist needed it most.
In continued following of the new Battle of Britain, I came across this Tweet from a few days ago from Regents Park Police.
Yep, pliers are now being taken in a weapons sweep.
I don’t know what the circumstances are that resulted in this, but at face value, this is beyond ridiculous. Except for the file, that looks like it was taken out of tool kit I put in my wife’s glove box.
The London police cannot ban items and confiscate tools fast enough to make a dent in their crime wave.
Why? Because it’s the people, that’s why.
What is a weapon to one is a livelihood too many more. The Mayor and the police don’t care about that and your garbage disposal is going to stay broken, less you decide to go on a rampage with your needle nose pliers.
To go even further the government has decided to implement a “ban on home deliveries of knives in government crackdown after surge in London stabbings.”
Anyone buying a knife online will be banned from having it sent to a residential address, under a government crackdown following a surge in street stabbings.
That’s the London equivalent to universal background checks. Your Amazon order for a new set of steak knives is now a crime.
Of course, if you go into the comments on any of these posts are articles, Americans are dunking on the UK. The fact is, the UK has engaged in the biggest and cruelest experiment in the English speaking world. If you try to reduce criminality by limiting the items available to the general public, all you will do is criminalize the general public and lose control of the crime rate.
This is the gun argument a thousand times over pushed to the extreme.
Knife bans and blunt tipped knives are not saving lives any more than magazine capacity and assault weapon bans are. They just nail innocent people.
Every TV discussion on this topic needs to go back to London where when they were done taking the guns away from law abiding citizens, they went after their needle nose pliers and eyeglass screwdrivers while the bodies still piled up.
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