The government are now considering a new law-----making it a serious offence to carry a knife in public.It will be treated as seriously as carrying a gun.
The mind boggles about how all this will be enforced when the Law can barely cope with what's going on already.Also,if people want to hurt or maim each other,they'll do it with something else. A chair leg ?
A spray,followed by a good kicking ? If the desire is there,the yobs won't be stopped by yet another law. After the Dunblane [?] massacre ,a few years ago, the government brought in stringent anti-gun laws. Since then, gun crimes have gone up.
Apparently in Switzerland a large proportion of the population has guns and they have one of the lowest homicide- by-gun rates in Europe.It's not theweapon that's important---it's the quality of the people that decides the crime rate.
Also ,be careful as you get rid of the family heirlooms at your next car--boot sale.From what I've just heard ,if the dodgy -- looking geezer next to you is flogging bent D.V.D.'s the police could well swoop down like the 5th.Cavalry and pack everybody off home.
Another two examples of Antics In Blunkettland.

Originally posted by sheffexpat
The government are now considering a new law-----making it a serious offence to carry a knife in public.It will be treated as seriously as carrying a gun.
The mind boggles about how all this will be enforced when the Law can barely cope with what's going on already.Also,if people want to hurt or maim each other,they'll do it with something else. A chair leg ?
A spray,followed by a good kicking ? If the desire is there,the yobs won't be stopped by yet another law. After the Dunblane [?] massacre ,a few years ago, the government brought in stringent anti-gun laws. Since then, gun crimes have gone up.
Apparently in Switzerland a large proportion of the population has guns and they have one of the lowest homicide- by-gun rates in Europe.It's not theweapon that's important---it's the quality of the people that decides the crime rate.
Also ,be careful as you get rid of the family heirlooms at your next car--boot sale.From what I've just heard ,if the dodgy -- looking geezer next to you is flogging bent D.V.D.'s the police could well swoop down like the 5th.Cavalry and pack everybody off home.
Another two examples of Antics In Blunkettland.


I don't have a problem with getting tough on people carrying weapons in public.

And regarding the idea of closing car boot sales where illegal DVDs are being sold, if it is a big car boot sale they could employ someone to walk around and order those stalls mainly selling illegal stuff to pack up and go home. Problem solved!

About ten years ago I worked at a factory just off Arundel Gate and used to go onto the Moor at dinner time to browse round some of the shops. Imagine my horror one day as I realised I was carrying lashed to my thigh a knife with a twelve inch blade, the sunlight glinting off it's razor edging. I used the knife at work obviously but have to wonder what would of happened if a police officer had spotted it, I decided in the end to leave it in place rather than trying to conceal it under my jacket and scuttle back to work.

I once found a large knife with a machete type blade hidden behind a wall in Firth Park. There had been a stabbing in the area 2 days before. I rang the cops, and they didn't want to know. I took it to Hamerton Road police station to hand it in anyway - it was quite unreal walking into there with this giant knife. No one batted an eyelid while I queued up waiting to be seen.
If I'd been carrying a chair leg though?

Sorry--forgot to mention ,also, that they're trying to introduce a law that stops under 18's buying knives.
As with the boozing laws,it's now the shop-keeper's job to suss out who's 18 and who's 17....etc....But...more relevant is the fact that if some deadhead wants to buy a knife[or alcohol] and they're not old enough---well they just get an older deadhead to buy it for them.Don't politicians live in the real world at all ?
I don't think they do.They don't seem to have any idea what life's like on the streets---they just deal in a simplistic way with the effects of bad behaviour--and so we all have to suffer.
If the police were allowed to concentrate properly on the 5 or 10% who break the law every day,more or less, and left the rest of us to get on with it ,society would be far healthier than it is now.
No wonder more and more people are leaving the country.off sick with stress ,screaming with rage at each other or slowly but surely going round the bend,one way or another.