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Yeah cause we all know that criminals respect the laws.
Like seriously, look at England to see how great this woks!.. Oh wait it absolutely doesn't even with absolutely draconian punishments for violations there are still very very regular stabbings but now the bad guys even switched to fucking acid...
Who in the world thinks this is a good idea?
The UK has the joint lowest levels of knife homicide in the world.
(Tied with Monaco at 0.08 per 100k people)
Source: United Nations Global Study on Homicide
Knife attacks in the UK are so low that when it does happen, it makes national news, which paradoxically leads to the impression of knife crime being very high.
Yes and the attackers now use acid and other stablery. That don't end up in statistics so UK people can show how great everything is.
London feels like straight out of 1984, cameras everywhere. Biggest ew imaginable.
You're now spinning the UK having the lowest knife violence rate as a bad thing somehow, and that it's a part of a UK conspiracy to make the UK look good lol.
"UK people" are called Brits, btw, and I'm not one of them.
All major cities have a lot of cameras. London is one of those hundreds of cities that do. Shops having CCTV is not "muh literally 1984".
No i say it doesn't work and is just 1984. Most cities in normal countries don't have cameras at every street corner. The fact that you UK people defend that behavior is seriously dangerous behavior
It doesn't work except it does, as the UK has low levels of violent crime, and very low levels of knife crime.
Cameras at every street corner? What are you on about? I think you've been watching too many conspiracy theorist YouTubers.
Germany has a higher rate of the police CCTV requests than the UK does. So if the UK is literally 1984, then Germany is even worse, no?
Again, people from the UK are called Brits. And I am not British. Do you call Germans "Germany people"?
Having the lowest knife attack rate on the planet is "seriously dangerous behaviour"? Ok then lol.
Chill the xenophobia.
Japan does. See the swords and firearms act. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Do I think some of it is dumb? Yep. Does it give a framework for handling people carrying types and/or lengths of blades in a way that punishes them more harshly and discourages people? It sure seems like it.
Yup. Japan has a knife homicide rates pretty much as low as the UK and Monaco. Clearly they're doing something right.
The framework already exists in Germany and it won't discourage terrorists, thats the fucking point. This was a terrorist attack. Japan doesn't have this terrorism threat, they have homicidal people and insane people, thats something different and our police already has more than enough rights to handle these situations. The knife the attacker used was also illigal anyway, did it stop them? Doesn't seem like it.