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London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 09 2018, @05:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-next? dept.

MrPlow writes:

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the carrying of knives in response to a spate of stabbings that pushed the city's murder rate past New York's for the "first time in modern history."

Khan deployed an additional 300 Metropolitan Police officers over the weekend to work exclusively against knife crime, urging them to be more "confident" in their authority to stop anyone suspected of carrying a weapon.

"What you will see over the course of the next few weeks and months — is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months — which is stop-and-search based on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon going up, more arrests as a consequence of this intelligence-led stop-and-search going up and hopefully our city becoming safer," the mayor said Saturday, according to The Telegraph.

Khan also issued a warning to would-be knife carriers, saying they should think twice before bringing one out in public — whatever the reason.

"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan said on Twitter. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/london-murder-rate-knives/

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @11:58AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @11:58AM (#664369) Journal

    I don't need to carry knives between the two places. Or pans. Or plates. Or ovens.

    Guess what - I have two sets of knives!

    But you aren't a professional cook, are you?

    And you know what, that less-than-one-in-a-million corner case that you discovered? They'll not be carrying knives even when they're transporting their knives. They'll be carrying a bag containing either a box or a cloth roll-up that contains the knives.

    Show me where "No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," makes any distinction on the way one is allowed or forbidden carry the knife and I'll retract my objection.
    'cause I'm not seeing any exception being explicitly carved for professional cooks (such as my sister, thus I know very well it's less that 1-in-a-million, there aren't only 25 professional cooks in Australia's 25 million population) all I'm seeing is a blanket "there is never a reason to carry a knife".

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 09 2018, @02:00PM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday April 09 2018, @02:00PM (#664411) Homepage
    You didn't address accessibility.
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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @02:06PM (2 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @02:06PM (#664421) Journal

      You didn't address accessibility.

      Because the honourable mayor of London, in his politician-specific style, didn't do it in the first place.

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      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 09 2018, @09:57PM (1 child)

        by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday April 09 2018, @09:57PM (#664708) Homepage
        That's because the pre-existing "good reason or lawful authority" should be just a gimme, because that's what the law says. He's not changing the law, he's changing the effort behind enforcement of the present law.

        When politians say they're cracking down on drugs, are you one of the idiots who says "but caffeine's a drug too - aaaahhhhhhh!". Being able to find a way to deliberately misinterpret what was said is not clever, it's twatty.

        Kahn was talking about enforcing the law, and therefore the knives he's talking about are the knives that the law talks about, and the carrying he's talking about is the carrying that the law talks about.
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        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @10:23PM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @10:23PM (#664718) Journal

          When politians say they're cracking down on drugs, are you one of the idiots who says "but caffeine's a drug too - aaaahhhhhhh!".

          You got me completely wrong. At best in regards with the matter, you'll hear me protesting on the line of 'But beer, rum and vodka are foods'.

          (grin)

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