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US tourist arrested in seaside town ‘because he didn’t understand UK laws’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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To be fair, I don't really understand what they're trying to achieve with these laws. A knife is just a tool, the issue isn't carrying one, but intending to use it to hurt someone, and if you intend to hurt someone, you will find some way to hide it anyways. If people are going around stabbing each other in the streets, the problem is much deeper than "they shouldn't be carrying knives in the public", perhaps your education system failed to teach them morality.
Yeah...so you address all aspects and take the weapons away.
Someone with a knife is orders of magnitude more dangerous than someone without.
It wasnt even a personal carry knife, it was a steak knife from his rental. Bizzare stupid behaviour.
There are legitimate uses for a knife besides using it as a weapon, for example slicing bread for a sandwich, opening packaging, slicing fruit etc., stuff that I could see myself doing at a beach...
My point was that even if you ban knives, that won't prevent people from carrying them, and this is confirmed by the fact that knife crime has been rising in the UK since the regulations have been put in place.
Tbf I thought it was a complete ban on knives in public, but apparently small pocket knives under 7cm are allowed, and you probably don't have any legitimate reason to carry anything larger than that, so I don't think the law is harmful, but it fails to address the core of the problem. And yeah, carrying a steak knife "for protection" is pretty strange...
The ban is technically on carrying a knife openly. If he had it in a picnic basket with a loaf of bread, there wouldnt be an issue.
The reason open carry is regulated is because it affects those around you and whether they feel comfortable or safe. Becoming the source of potential danger is not an acceptable way to make yourself feel comfortable or safe.