How many knives can a disaffected teen carry/throw per minute?
I wouldn’t seek to downplay how much damage a sufficiently motivated individual with a knife can do in a short space of time, but it is certainly orders of magnitude lower than a firearm in most cases.
I do feel like the media coverage of knife crime is overblown. The violent crime rate here is pretty low, and yet you have to be an adult to buy a seam ripper. Knife sales aren’t the reason for rises in violent crime, inequality is. Hopefully we can begin to address that with a new administration.
It’s comparatively low, but you take about the level of crime you have I guess, rather than crime you could have. I don’t hold much hope for whatever bizarre Frankenstein’s government is next in charge of the country, but we’ll have to cross that channel when we come to it.
Living in the UK, I have never seen an actual firearm outside of specialist police and museums. Nor has that presented any problems. shrug
I wouldn’t say I emigrated for any one reason, but fewer guns was one of the… many.
And before anyone says it, the only person to menace me with a knife has been my partner… and I think she was joking.
Regardless, a knife isn’t any risk to innocent people across the street from the intended victim. A gun on the other hand…
How many knives can a disaffected teen carry/throw per minute?
I wouldn’t seek to downplay how much damage a sufficiently motivated individual with a knife can do in a short space of time, but it is certainly orders of magnitude lower than a firearm in most cases.
That’s for her to know :)
I do feel like the media coverage of knife crime is overblown. The violent crime rate here is pretty low, and yet you have to be an adult to buy a seam ripper. Knife sales aren’t the reason for rises in violent crime, inequality is. Hopefully we can begin to address that with a new administration.
I didn’t call her bluff, so who’s to say.
It’s comparatively low, but you take about the level of crime you have I guess, rather than crime you could have. I don’t hold much hope for whatever bizarre Frankenstein’s government is next in charge of the country, but we’ll have to cross that channel when we come to it.