Knife crime

[crapmemory]

It seems every day there is somebody who gets stabbed. Anyone got any ideas how it could be stopped?

[jenstar]

Suit of armour?

[Lonnie]

Laws have to be made, and enforced, make it so you have to register with the police before you can buy a knife, and if you have one and use it illegally. The Stocks

[Whickerman]

But Lonnie - would that mean that you'd need to register every time you bought a butter knife in Tesco? Think it through - if you outlaw one type of knife, they'll only use another.

[pingping]

get rid of ASBOs and introduce harsher penalties for carrying a weapon. if the punishments were harsher then it might well act as a deterrent.

[crapmemory]

What about lowering the age for prosecuting offenders? If they think they are big enough to carry and use a knife then arrest them. If you can't do the time then don't do the crime.

[Lonnie]

Hi Whickerman, yes, I thought of that as I was writing, there would have to be exceptions, for household use etc, but I think my idea, which on first sight, does seem impractible, has the basis of rectifying whats happening at present.

What is legal and illegal, use and/or possession, would have to be determined.

[joko]

perhaps bowie knives, swords, machetes, etc etc could be more controlled, but you can stab someone with a kitchen knife so all the extra effort and palaver in enforcing this ruling, would outweigh the actual effectiveness.

if i wanted to stab someone a ban would not affect me because i have a kicthen full of legal weapons.

i believe most knife wound are inflicted by kitchen knives.

the more elaborate ones tend to just be for show.

there was a knife amnesty not so long ago and that got thousands of elaborate, bizarre and scary looking knives.

besides, it didn't stop people having guns.

[Lonnie]

Thats true joko, but what we then need, is punishment to fit the crime.

As a matter of interest, what would you advocate as punishment for someone who stabbed someone with a kitchen knife?.

Me, if it was murder, then death, but there are varying opinions on that.

[joko]

same as any murder - life

the weapon would not concern me, more the premeditation and act

[Toureman]

The government should ban them like they banned all firearms, nobody gets shot now, do they?