Crime Wave UK: Govt Moves to Stop Knife Sales as Blade Crime Hits 7-Year High
Violent crime has surged in England and Wales recently, with trauma surgeons comparing conditions in the capital’s hospitals to a war zone.
Recorded machete attacks have increased fivefold in the past three years, to the point that police now deal with an average of 15 incidents involving the broad, sword-like blades each day.
Incredibly strict firearm controls appear to be doing little to stem soaring rates of gun crime, too, with London seeing a 44 per cent rise since 2014 — but even though this is occuring despite Britain boasting some of the toughest anti-gun laws in the world, politicians hope increasing restrictions on knife sales can help tackle blade crime.
With calls to ban kitchen knife sales on the basis that domestic food preparation does not require chef-sharp tools and stores voluntarily taking knives off the shelves, the United Kingdom already takes a much stricter approach to sharp objects than most other Western nations, with authorities earlier this year arresting a man for carrying a potato peeler in a public place “without reasonable excuse”.
In June, insisting there is more to be done to crack down on knife sales, the government also introduced new legislation which would make it illegal to deliver bladed items bought online.
TL;DR; Incredibly strict firearm controls appear to be doing little to stem soaring rates of gun crime, too
Incredibly?
How about "predictably"?
