my opinion is that the best thing to do would be to just crack down harder on knife crime[/], not knives themselves, carrying a knife harms nobody, using a knife correctly harms nobody, the only way to harm someone with a knife is to do something that is already a crime and that is to assault someone, which is just as easily done with our hands and is done with our hands alot more than with knives, but theres no ban on taking our hands to public places (yes i know that would be impossible it is just an example). so what im saying is that if the punishment for using a knife illegally is severe enough then surely people wouldnt do it, or would at least think twice about it. in the end whether or not we stop knife crime doesnt make any difference to crime rates in total, if someone wants to kill someone and they have a knife on them they'll use it, if someone wants to kill someone and they dont have a knife they'll beat them to death, snap their neck or choke them to death. banning everyone from carrying knives just to prevent some people from killing in a certain way is pointless, if you really want to stop knife crime then be strict on knife crime but dont make life harder for all us normal folks, people are gonna carry knives wether they are legal or not, at least if they are legal then people carrying them for good reasons wont get crapped on.
oh my i seem to have rambled on a bit their, sorry, if you cant be arsed to read all that then here it is in a nutshell,
make knives legal, increase severity of sentences for knife crime.
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