The UK is insane… here you have Idris Elba calling for the removal of *points* from kitchen knives to stop knife attacks…
He also says they should BAN all “heritage knives” and you should need a license to own your grandad’s sword because current “loopholes” allow people to buy ninja swords.
This is the same logic that leftists in the USA use for guns, blaming the guns instead of blaming the people who use them for violent attacks.
Guns don’t kill people.
Knives don’t kill people.
PEOPLE kill people.
Owning a gun is illegal in the UK (with very narrow exceptions). If making guns illegal stopped murder, then the UK wouldn’t proposing blunting knives and making swords illegal. But let’s just say the UK managed to blunt all the kitchen knives and ban all the swords, then what? Will murders stop? Of course not.
What else will they need to ban?
Will automobiles become illegal? After all, you can drive a car into a crowd and cause a lot of carnage.
What about lashing a rock to a stick to make a club?
What about chipping away at that rock to sharpen it to turn it into a rudimentary axe?
What about just sharpening a stick?
What about rubbing a rock against the tip of your blunted kitchen knife until it becomes a sharp point?
What about glass windows? They should definitely be illegal because you can break a window, wrap a piece of cloth around a shard of glass, and voila, you have a knife.
A small minority of people will always use tools to do bad things. Banning those tools doesn’t stop bad people from doing bad things. It just stops good people from using the tools.
(It also leaves citizens completely disarmed and unable to resist the overreach of a fully-armed totalitarian state).
