s11ews
05-24-2006, 10:36 AM
the laws in the u.k involving knives are some of the worst i have heard of and living here when all the politicians are trying to ban all knives, is the biggest pain in the a** ever.
today whilst walking roung my home town of Cheltenham i saw six posters advertising a knife amnesty "if you turn you knife into the local rozzer station between may 24th and june 30th you will not be prosicuted" now do you really think that some scummy acne ridden white lightning drinking asbo receiving thug is going to turn in their rusty old £1.50 knife that they use to threaten people with, NO honest citizens will hand them in
the police have also started to put airport style metal detectors in the middle of streets and are scanning as many people as they can.
i feel that the way forward would be to produce some kind of liscense for collectors so that we can carry our high quality, well looked after pocket knives in peace without fear of being arrested. then when they metal detect people on the street with a 3inch knife you can just pull your liscense out of your pocket and show that your knife is used as a tool and not as a form of threatning people!
the liscense would not be the hardest thing to get but if they made you pay lets say £25 for it and did a small background check i would not mind as i can not see one of these thugs taking one out at all.
in short search people as we have nothing on us we should have to hide but use the liscensing so that only genuine people have knives on them and the thugs carrying rusty old knives, kitchen knives or stanley style knives that the won in the fun fair would have them taken off themand not the honest people with a spydie, benchmade, almar, or better!
today whilst walking roung my home town of Cheltenham i saw six posters advertising a knife amnesty "if you turn you knife into the local rozzer station between may 24th and june 30th you will not be prosicuted" now do you really think that some scummy acne ridden white lightning drinking asbo receiving thug is going to turn in their rusty old £1.50 knife that they use to threaten people with, NO honest citizens will hand them in
the police have also started to put airport style metal detectors in the middle of streets and are scanning as many people as they can.
i feel that the way forward would be to produce some kind of liscense for collectors so that we can carry our high quality, well looked after pocket knives in peace without fear of being arrested. then when they metal detect people on the street with a 3inch knife you can just pull your liscense out of your pocket and show that your knife is used as a tool and not as a form of threatning people!
the liscense would not be the hardest thing to get but if they made you pay lets say £25 for it and did a small background check i would not mind as i can not see one of these thugs taking one out at all.
in short search people as we have nothing on us we should have to hide but use the liscensing so that only genuine people have knives on them and the thugs carrying rusty old knives, kitchen knives or stanley style knives that the won in the fun fair would have them taken off themand not the honest people with a spydie, benchmade, almar, or better!