But the arguments you raise are unfocused, nebulous and ,might I say, without a honed edge.
They are in the same ballpark as those used by the NRA
(sorry if you find that insulting, I can understand that, I expect you have considerably more brain cells than the NRA... combined!),
namely - this won't stop bad people doing bad things, only us, innocent, god-fearing, folk will suffer.
May I reference Jefferies vs US Gun Lobby (2015) m'lud?.... (@3:02s)
The proposed legislation going through lobbies for consultation has a point, it is not a panacea for all violent crime, it aims at one point, to close one loophole, the one that enabled the underage to buy online, knives that they could not, if they were to do so face to face. The point that you raise that they can also do this by buying from abroad, also highlights the point, and should also be addressed. It may be possible to include that in this legislation, but that might need something separate.
Arguing - we cannot legislate against all ways of hurting people, so that's a good reason to not legislate against this anomaly = poor argument.
Good vid, will check more of his stuff out later
It's easy to jump on the USA gun bandwagon as an example, problem is though
1/ We're not in America
2/ We're not talking about guns
There is absolutely no doubt that guns in the USA cause many many deaths, from both murder and suicide.
No matter what the NRA say it's a problem
It's not 100% a gun problem though, other countries have similar quantities of guns (per person) but don't have anywhere near the level of violence associated with them.
So it's first an American sociatorial problem, second a gun problem.
Thing to think about is that unless we're experienced talented engineers and chemists with a decent amount of machining tools and equipment we can't make guns ourselves, even if we could making the ammunition would be a whole different level.
We have knifes in EVERY single home and restaurant in the country
We can control and outlaw guns, it's happened and to an extent it has worked in the UK
We cannot outlaw knives, they're a tool we all use daily if not several times a day from a very young age.
We can make buying on-line difficult, we can make buying from a store difficult, but all anyone needs to do is walk into a restaurant or kitchen and they have immediate access to a decent quantity and variety of knives.
It's feasible and reasonable to expect say all handguns to be banned for civilian use in the UK, it's been done and although it took some time to filter through it's worked in preventing many gun crimes.
It's simply not feasible, reasonable or logical to outlaw knives
We can outlaw say zombie knives, but still people will need larger knives like machetes for work, butchers still need cleavers.
Even IF we found a way of licensing all larger knives, it's really really easy to sharpen a piece of steel.
1 hour on a grinding wheel with a leaf spring could have something resembling a machete
This is not the case with guns
Besides statistically it's not a problem.
Drunk driving and binge drinking are causing dramatically more deaths and injuries every year than every knife crime combined.
