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UK official says all knives should be fitted with GPS trackers
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:38 pm
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Common sense knife control.
Amid the ever-increasing number of knife attacks in the United Kingdom, one member of Parliament has suggested a technological way to fight back:
GPS trackers in the handles of every knife sold in the U.K.
Scott Mann — a conservative who represents North Cornwall — offered his solution Thursday on Twitter and also called for a national database for knives.
"Every knife sold in the UK should have a gps tracker fitted in the handle," he wrote. "It's time we had a national database like we do with guns. If you're carrying it around you had better have a bloody good explanation, obvious exemptions for fishing etc."
To say that Mann's suggestion was met with a little bit of ridicule is an understatement.
Comedy writer James Felton replied, "There are 66 million people in the UK. If every one of them owns just one knife that's 66 million knives to keep track of you brain genius how are you an MP."
Tom Peck, a political sketch writer at the Independent, wondered "have you got much in the way of a plan for how the police monitor the movement of the UK's, let's say 300 million knives?" He added, "And we'd better hope the bad guys don't do anything naughty like, say, forget to charge up their knives at night."
Mann's suggestion came in the wake of new figures showing 21,484 people were prosecuted or cautioned for knife offenses in England and Wales in 2018, the Evening Standard reported — the highest count since 2009 when it stood at more than 25,000.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid recently announced plans for new knife crime prevention orders, which could impose curfews or social media use restrictions on anyone 12 and older who police suspect of carrying a blade, the paper said.
And you might recall London Mayor Sadiq Khan implementing knife control last year after murders in that city — which had been traditionally safe given the dearth of guns — surpassed murders in New York City in February and March 2018. It was a modern-history first — and the London murders were mostly stabbing attacks with knives.
Common sense knife control.
Amid the ever-increasing number of knife attacks in the United Kingdom, one member of Parliament has suggested a technological way to fight back:
GPS trackers in the handles of every knife sold in the U.K.
Scott Mann — a conservative who represents North Cornwall — offered his solution Thursday on Twitter and also called for a national database for knives.
"Every knife sold in the UK should have a gps tracker fitted in the handle," he wrote. "It's time we had a national database like we do with guns. If you're carrying it around you had better have a bloody good explanation, obvious exemptions for fishing etc."
To say that Mann's suggestion was met with a little bit of ridicule is an understatement.
Comedy writer James Felton replied, "There are 66 million people in the UK. If every one of them owns just one knife that's 66 million knives to keep track of you brain genius how are you an MP."
Tom Peck, a political sketch writer at the Independent, wondered "have you got much in the way of a plan for how the police monitor the movement of the UK's, let's say 300 million knives?" He added, "And we'd better hope the bad guys don't do anything naughty like, say, forget to charge up their knives at night."
Mann's suggestion came in the wake of new figures showing 21,484 people were prosecuted or cautioned for knife offenses in England and Wales in 2018, the Evening Standard reported — the highest count since 2009 when it stood at more than 25,000.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid recently announced plans for new knife crime prevention orders, which could impose curfews or social media use restrictions on anyone 12 and older who police suspect of carrying a blade, the paper said.
And you might recall London Mayor Sadiq Khan implementing knife control last year after murders in that city — which had been traditionally safe given the dearth of guns — surpassed murders in New York City in February and March 2018. It was a modern-history first — and the London murders were mostly stabbing attacks with knives.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:41 pm to Crimson Wraith
How about they just fit all muzzies with GPS trackers?
Isn't that accomplishing the same thing?
Isn't that accomplishing the same thing?
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:41 pm to Crimson Wraith
Then when all knives are banned, we can move on to rocks.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:44 pm to Crimson Wraith
"Once Great Britain"
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:46 pm to Crimson Wraith
Sounds like a good idea to charge someone $50 (in euros) for a GPS-tracked butter knife.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:47 pm to Crimson Wraith
If you don’t carry a pocket knife then you aren’t prepared (boarding a plane etc are obvious exceptions). I’ve had mine in my right pocket for 30+ years.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:50 pm to Crimson Wraith
I work with people that carry a knife every day to work, church, shopping, everywhere. I carry mine just about everywhere too. It amazes me that this is an issue.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:56 pm to The Pirate King
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Then when all knives are banned, we can move on to rocks.
After those, wood clubs.
But why stop there...
This post was edited on 3/14/19 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 3/14/19 at 12:59 pm to Crimson Wraith
They are totally doomed as a society.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 1:00 pm to The Pirate King
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Then when all knives are banned, we can move on to rocks
That would be racist because it would unevenly impact those who stone women and infidels.
Posted on 3/14/19 at 1:08 pm to Crimson Wraith
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recently announced plans for new knife crime prevention orders, which could impose curfews or social media use restrictions on anyone 12 and older who police suspect of carrying a blade,
Posted on 3/14/19 at 1:12 pm to Crimson Wraith
"Unfortunately, my good chap, my boat capsized on the River Thames and all my knives were tragically lost"
Posted on 3/14/19 at 2:03 pm to Crimson Wraith
That would require a complete rework of the SOFA and would almost guarantee that the U.S. would pull its forces from the UK.
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