Compounding Official Stupidity

In Great Britain, it’s almost impossible for individuals to get guns. That’s supposed to “end gun crime.” It does not. Gun crime is still very high, and “knife crime” is on the rise, which again proves my contention that if the bad guys cannot get guns to use in committing their crimes, they’ll find something else. Now they are passing stiffer laws to limit the use of knives, hoping preventing the law-abiding from having knives will keep the law-breakers from getting them. It predictably does not work, leading to their current efforts to get rid of the POINTS on knives, to prevent them from being able to effectively stab people with them. Of course, that ignores the fact that they can still slash, which can still effectively seriously injure of kill somebody. Of course, it is impossible to eliminate knives entirely because they have many uses, and to get rid of them entirely would cripple society. But the politicians seem unable to understand that, and they keep working to make knives inaccessible to anybody whose job doesn’t require them. Which is an impossibility, but that’s something else they just can’t understand. (The Telegraph)