On to 'Knife Control'

 

" As of late, U.S. gun policies are most often compared to that of the United Kingdom's. Following the massacre at Dunblane, the UK enacted a near universal gun ban in 1998. Today the majority of police officers are not allowed to carry a firearm even while on duty, and even the UK Olympic pistol team must fly to Switzerland to practice. All the same, the most recent government statistics show gun crimes in England and Wales have gone from 5,209 in 1998 to 9,865 in 2012 -- an increase of 89 per cent.

Rather than exploring a change of policy, UK communities are instead using many of the same gun control measures to address the increase in knife violence. In the past four months the West Midlands police have confiscated thousands of "weapons" that include scissors, kitchen knives, and metal baseball bats. The UK Daily Mail called the haul a "fearsome arsenal" of "deadly weapons." "          [American Thinker]