This ban is a political news grabber to show that a unpopular government is doing its best to save people getting hurt. With out any regard for statistics on crime they are laying down all knife crime to nasty horrible illegal knives bought off of EBAY - which are illegal anyway and anyone caught with one should be arrested and fined - easier to treat the "tool" rather than the cause. In years gone by in times of serious recession and national problems they went to war to take peoples mind of it, but we are already and so this farcical attempt to prevent crimes more often carried out with kitchen and utility knives.
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