Stop the carrying of knives in Britain

I'm not sure about London, but up north our postmen usually knock on the door when delivering a parcel rather than break in to suprise us with it.

No, but I don't think the government should take something like a knife off me because I might do something stupid with it.

And looking at the poll, does it mean use the existing law and just up the sentence to 5 years? Or do you want anyone and everyone to be put away for carrying knives in public. What about butchers/chefs etc? What about small pen knives?

********! if its enforced properly the "average gang member" will be the average prisoner and thus those who arnt behind bars will soon wise up. as i said it wont stop premeditated murders but it will make fatal random attacks far less likely. i cant imagine what it must feel like at 12-15 to be capable of killing anyone around you. what that must do to the mentality of already ****ed up kids is unimaginable.

There is an e-petition going to ban the carrying of knives and impose a 5 year prison sentence on anyone found with a knife.

The petition deadline is today. Please sign it.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ban-knives/

This is all in reaction to the 17th teenager being killed in the capital this year. It has to stop.

Thanks.

im trying to say search young people more, and if a 30 year old has a knife he perhaps might be using it for stabings but if the company he works for uses knifes it doesnt take a genious to work out he isnt a criminal, stop taking the law so literally.

Two questions:

1. Carrying a knife does not imply any violent crime has been commited or that the carrier intends to commit a crime. How do you justify imposing a mandatory prison sentence equivalent to that handed down to the man who caused the Selby rail crash for this?

2. Why do you suppose someone who is willing to commit a crime that carries a mandatory life sentence would be deterred by a mandatory 5 year sentence if they are caught en route?

you don't know anything about gang culture and the way they think i don;'t know 100% but i know enough to know that prison won't deter them. people who aren't in prison will not wise up, they will continue to attack people. but random attacks are very low anyway, most of the time gang members attack other gang members

The young man may also use the knife for work, my main point is that I don't trust the police to discern correctly.

A mandatory minimum sentence of five years for carrying a knife in public?

Is Peter Atkinson a ****ing moron?

I can see the argument against guns, where the general purpose of many firearms is simply to kill. I guess this idiot never does any of the cooking in his house, as he has forgotten than knives have multiple purposes aside from harming others.

I carry a penknife with me everywhere, around my neck or in my bag depending on how likely it is I will need to use it. I use it for something or other most days. It's not for attack, and it's certainly not for defense - what am I going to do, whittle a scale model of myself out of a tree to confuse my attacker? I'd have to be an idiot to sign that petition.

how naive.
the govenment wont do **** all, but they will note that people are concerned about the issue.

Someone said right: "scum"!

If someone is a scum, he/she can kill you with a wooden stick or champagne broken bottle...or anything else!

The problem is with the prisons guys!! They should make prisons to isolate bands, to isolate the opportunity to become a perfect killer…to eliminate gyms or others sport activities (to make them weaker) and to put them at work (creative work...show them the good part in life)

how naive.
the govenment wont do **** all, but they will note that people are concerned about the issue.

just out of curiosity why have you always carried a knife since the age of 13?