Stabbing rates are running high in the UK. 322 in total last year. The police are being stricter about people caught carrying knives. But what is being done to prevent people from carrying a knife in the first place???
According to BBC news magazine (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8101032.stm), someone has designed an anti-stab knife!
Call me a cynic but is that the best we can do??? Would money not be better spent helping and educating the people at risk of committing knife crime? Time spent encouraging people that there are other options. That carrying a knife is not the answer.
There are countless unsafe knives in people’s kitchens all over the UK. Is there going to be a “hand in your knives” campaign, encouraging people to swap their knives for the safe variety?
Sadly, if people are prone to violence, they will commit it with out without a knife. The key surely, is dealing with the cause of the violence, not the weapon of choice.
