It's not about profit, it's about the agenda. The agenda is White replacement and they know that the majority of knife crime is done by Blacks and other non-White immigrants, so they don't talk about it because talking about race leads to uncomfortable questions such as Why aren't we banning illegal migrants instead of kitchen knives?
c. 25yrs ago I went to a meeting, as a member of a tenants association, about combatting youth crime. Most were there to get funding for their companies and there was a panel on the stage of people from the government. I said if it's getting worse as you've said, then what you've been funding isn't helping and if you fund it again next year it'll continue not to work again next year. I mentioned how large cities of Victorian Britain had gangs of youths fighting each other usually with knives and clubs. One in Manchester lasted several days involving hundreds of youths was eventually broken up by the army. What eventually stopped it was the setting up of something akin to youth clubs (usually set up by local churches, The Boys and Girls Club, Manchester City football club etc started as one of those). That if it worked then, then it could work now and clearly what you'd chosen to fund doesn't work. The head of the panel replied, "Send us a business plan" and the rest of the panel giggled.
I think goverments should focus on the "intent of the crime" and "the most common cause and location", and not the "tools" in the crime it self! those are useful for determening guilt, as a piece of evidence! That said, I don't live in the UK, so will not try to effect the council! Mostly because I think it a UK issue and it should be handled by the people of the country! Good luck! and I hope it works out for you all!
I volunteer at a nature reserve where it's impractical to use power tools. We absolutely need tools like these as everything needs to be carried on foot to the work areas.
That is a case in point for why we need to expand the legislation & banning of these dangerous implements. Unless you're a professional yard worker there is literally no reason for regular citizens to own things like machetes & saws. As far as knives we need to get rid of them writ large, and switch to sporks (rounded prongs of course)
@@MyMomSaysImKeen i don't know if you are being serious about that or not but if only professional gardeners had these tools and not home owners then people would need to pay the professionals to do the work for them and depending on the size of land they might not be able to afford it and if things are over grown and unkept that is a hazard
Your point about people in PRISON still being able to manufacture sharp pointy objects capable of murder is spot on and that alone should be enough to close this debate once and for all. History has proven over and over and over and over again that if there's a will, there's a way. That's it.
Britain has been running on fumes for decades, if not a century, by this point. Some of those fumes smell like freedom although the source is long gone.
@@karinefonte516 "Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose." 🗿
When carrying a knife was commonplace knife crime was just about zero. Boy scouts and girl guides carried knives.When quill pens were used for writing you repaired it with a pen knife. The fact that everybody openly carried and used them cancelled out any trendyness,or the "oooh youve got a knife" factor. They are tackling it the wrong way.
@@willfox1037could still carry my Scout knife in the early 90s. However 40 Czech scouts coming over to the UK for a camp all ran afoul of customs due to the fixed blade they wore as part of uniform. By 1997 I could no longer carry anything but a penknife and chopping wood required a certification. By the 2000s the many of activities associated with Scouting were no longer permitted for Scouts. They may not fire air-weapons under any circumstances, you are usually 16+ before you can even think about a handaxe, and even setting up archery activities is tough (notably the bow and arrow is completely legal) The PC culture might have started back in the 50s, but it went exponential at the turn of the millennium
@@Uruz2012 no, but our knives were phased out of uniform despite being under length and legal. You just can't convince the general public that children are competent enough to bear them
Drugs are in a different category than guns. The US tried to ban alcohol and it backfired, the violence of prohibition ended when the ban was repealed. So I would prefer to decriminalise drugs so that the criminal profits are reduced. Guns are heavily restricted in the UK, but there is not a massive desire for gun ownership - as there was for the consumption of alcohol in the US. What needs to be addressed is why people want or need drugs and why they want to fight or kill. Leaving drug gang violence aside, why do young people want to carry knives? Fear of others? Self defence? If so, the solution is creating the problem. When I was a kid knives were more freely available and the laws were somewhat less draconian. Stupidly, I sometimes carried knives, but I knew what they could do (as tools and as a result of accidently cutting myself once or twice) and as a result I have never wanted to stab or cut someone else. I grew up at a time when it was expected you might have a pocket knife or belong to the Scouts, so you were also expected to know how and why to use a knife responsibly. Now people see them solely as weapons, via games and films. We knew knives `could` be weapons, we had books and films and tv, but we also saw them being used and used them ourselves, non-violently.
States which have legqalized cannabis, regulated, and taxed it have enjoyed many benefits. My State decriminalized heroin, meth, fentanyl, and cocaine. It has been a disaster
@@adamshaw8955 Yeah, if they really wanted to make the general public safer, they'd allow and encourage people to carry implements like tasers, pepper spray, pistols, etc for use in self defence situations. The increased risk for the criminals would lower the violent crime rate almost immediately and that has been repeatedly shown in the US (where the places with more people carrying guns corresponds to lower crime rates and the places with the most strict gun laws having the most violent crime by a large margin) and other countries
Czech Republic has its issues, but looking around us, I am not tempted to emigrate to any other country. Watching the news from around the world makes me feel like we are one of the least crazy places...
@@Joe_Friday You can own firearms (no fully automatic though) after you complete a two part test (written test regarding the laws, shooting and handling practical test) to get your firearms license. Concealed carry is allowed (apart from places like concerts etc.) for the purposes of self-defense.
@@PajaKulebrc My worry is if some type of shooting made headlines the government could/would ban ownership. Kinda like they recently did in New Zealand. Just like they've done/continue to do in Canada. It's so much easier to ban these things in other countries when compared to the US because it's a right here and a privilege in most other places.
@@PajaKulebrc impressed with those laws, it seems eastern Europe has some of the best firearms laws. I am American and own firearms myself, but have no problem with testing being done. Just go to a public range here in the US, it can be shocking how incompetent and irresponsible some people are. For instance when I was eighteen I bought my first rifle, I walked into a gun show with some cash, walked out later with a rifle in my arms. They didn't even do background checks back then. It's a little too easy.
A civilized society is not one without weapons. A civilized society is one where the people may have them and be trusted to have them. Those who cannot be or are not civilized have no business being society in the first place.
More to the point, a disarmed population is a slave population. Politicians don't care about people killing each other in the streets, they just don't want us to be able to kill THEM in the streets.
An armed society is not a polite society. It is a society where people murder each other. Stand Your Ground and unrestricted carry of firearms in the US has led us to the New Normal of more than one mass shooting every day and people carrying rifles to get a loaf of bread at the store in order to intimidate the people around them with the unspoken statement "I can kill you. You can't do a damned thing about it." Some people can be trusted with repeating firearms. Others cannot. The problem with "law-abiding citizens should be trusted with any weapon, anywhere, anytime" is that every mass shooting, every domestic violence murder was committed by someone who was a law-abiding Good Guy With a Gun right up until the final second. I used to be a life member of the NRA, shot IDPA, and had a CCW. But the last fifteen years have shown that there have to be minimum standards of stability and competence.
@@Gainn We know all about the history of dueling. It didn't lead to people being polite. Young dudes with more testosterone than myelin killed each other. A lot. Bullying was backed up by the threat of death. Murder became normalized. And the authorities everywhere hated it. In societies where it was caste-based it led to the armed castes committing murder against the unarmed with impunity. "An armed society is a polite society"" was a feel-good throwaway line from a work of fiction almost a hundred years ago. The author was all-in for eugenics and believed that lots of legalized violence would allow the genetically superior to rule over everyone else AS WAS THEIR RIGHT. It meant the elderly, the disabled, and, since going armed was the prerogative of men, women were forced to debase themselves to fit, young, male bullies.
I'm sure you're aware of this Matt but Glasgow made great strides in reducing knife violence by treating it as a primarily social problem and concentrating less on the criminal element.
People who's basic socioeconomic needs are abundantly met rarely turn to violent crime. That's why there's less crime in affluent suburbs than in poor inner cities. Solve the crushing, soul-destroying poverty, and you solve the crime.
Talking of Glasgow: I wonder where the 'gardeners', who the old Victor Morris shop on Argyle Street sold machetes to, buy their 'gardening' equipment now. 😁
@@barnettmcgowan8978 poverty is one piece of the puzzle. Raising your kids right is the other one. We get apprentices who used to get into trouble with law enforcement and we manage to fix most of them.
@@blarfroer8066 The same is true in the US. Programs that work to redirect young people from troubled neighborhoods yield results. However, the root cause is poverty. If you don't address poverty, you can't solve the problem. Society is a social contract, and when a community feels unfairly treated, the larger society will get responses they don't like and deem antisocial.
Thousands of people get killed in traffic. Buses, trams, trains and electric bikes could handle all necessary traffic with less casualties. No politician dares to suggest a car ban, though, even when it would spare more lives than any weapon ban ever.
That is a self-serving do-nothing nihilistic lie pushed by oligarchs and fascists to deny the fact that government can, in fact work very well, especially when it is responsive to the people rather than the rich and the corporations.
but supply and demand does impact their decisions, where i live, you most likely to get shot by a zipgun, but more likely than that, you go mess around in the ghetto, and you gonna get hit with bear spray and machetes
@@zoanth4 less access to lethal potential means less lethal results. Humanity has fought wars for millennia but you will notice they became far more destructive with access to better force multipliers. I mean people who want to do harm will definitely so regardless, and the effort should be placed on stopping that at the source, but restrictions aren't totally ineffective in principle.
@@beepboop204 It’s not easy to reduce supply, especially without trampling on the rights of law-abiding citizens. In the USA, something like 80% of guns used in crime are illegally obtained. All the anti-gun laws in crime-ridden holes like Chicago have done absolutely nothing to stop criminals from getting their hands on firearms but have succeeded in disarming law-abiding citizens and keeping them from defending themselves- which just means the criminals can be armed and never have to fear an armed victim, thus making them much bolder. Reducing the supply of firearms is very difficult. Reducing the supply of sharp objects is impossible. So is reducing the supply of blunt force objects. When all else fails, criminals can always resort to beating someone to death without any weapons at all… More people in the USA are beaten to death each year than killed with rifles. In all cases it’s much, much, better to address the underlying causes of crime. Go after gangs. Go after smugglers and straw purchasers. Raise the penalties so crime has a real cost, not a slap on the wrist. Start cultural initiatives to make criminal culture, especially at a young age, NOT cool. Etc. There are places in the US which have few gun laws and almost no homicide, because they follow these steps. There are also places in the US which have extremely restrictive gun laws but skyrocketing rates of homicide, because they don’t follow these steps and criminals don’t follow gun laws.
How many times do new laws have to have predictable negative effect before people seriously consider the possibility that those negative effects are the desired effects?
I can tell you that decriminalizing cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and meth in my State has been a complete disaster. There is no question at all about this.
I thought the UK government was behaving idiotically years ago when I read they banned blowguns. I doubt very much if a single blowgun was ever used in a crime. I hadn't known about the throwing stars, but it's just as stupid. I lived in Ireland for 4 years in the '90s, and only briefly visited the UK. I'd love to see a lot of it that I didn't have the money to go see back then (I was a poor college student). But I wouldn't live there for love nor money now. People are being jailed for "hate speech" which _can_ be whatever anyone in power says it is. And things like this... They are banning certain things, not because those things are genuine tools of criminal behavior, but because they are simply things that those in power have decided other people shouldn't own.
Also, the harder it is to get hold of them, the higher the prestige associated with using them. The only ones who will be affected by any ban, are law-abiding citizens.
@@Kwijiboz If a criminal owns an illegal object that is difficult to obtain it gives them a way to brag or show off. Increased scarcity means increased value.
@beepboop204 the government thinks we shouldn't have anything. For example: They made switch blades illegal, but the government officials like my local fire chief have them. If there's no reasons to have one besides using it for crime then why would a fire chief have one. Because it's not about criminals
Thank you,, excellent as always sir. Ive spoken to several people about this and I've been shocked. People aren't thinking at all. If they ever did. I read out what the government wants banned and many folk were ,, 'Whats up?' I then explained some simple points like: 'You own alot of these thing's yourselves!' Billhooks, camping machetes! etc.. I don't think many folk are aware of what this law really means. "Oh yeah." was one reply.
LOL, kids hurting themselves at school with ninja stars in the 80s. Ah the 1980s where you could take a butterfly knife into school, if you were caught it would be confiscated and given back to you at the end of the day. How times have changed.
In Sweden during the 70's no one cared about knives in small town schools unless it was a stiletto. (They didn't like kids messing around with big ass Bowie knives on the Stockholm subway though.) Those were usually confiscated. Nowadays you get prosecuted if they find a knife in the glove compartment of you own car. Knives used to be tools, but are now regarded as "items specifically intended for crimes against life and health". Do we have less deadly violence that before? Not at all, we have more and deadlier violence. The bad guys are now using firearms (illegal eastern bloc military weapons) instead of knives and are becoming more and more organized in large gangs instead of operating alone or in small groups. The political solution: Ban more kinds of strange looking knives and guns that "have a military look" and make legal gun ownership for hunters and competitive shooters more complicated.
They also banned nunchaku and jo/bo staves... The ironic thing here, is that the nunchaku are more likely to hurt the user than anyone else, unless they know what they're doing (in which case they likely don't need them to injure other people) and the staves are, essentially, just big sticks. The Jo staff is just a 3 foot broom handle, in effect... and yet those are banned too.
Matt my vote is that you come to America. We would love to have you. Yes, better weapon laws but there are so many more reasons. It would be great for your business. It would be great for your channel. You could live out your last of the Mohican fantasies! It opens up a whole new world for reenactments and HEMA education. Lucy and the kids would love it (no need to learn a new language). If they balk at the idea just show them the prices on things. It is so much cheaper than in Europe and that is for almost everything. We don't have a VAT tax (yet) and some states do not have a sales tax (some others do not have an income tax). Try this: sell them on taking a vacation here if they have not already. If they love it - go for it. You are a family man and family matters most. You are a smart chap so you could do business anywhere but having a happy family will make the move, and life in general, much easier. Whatever you decide - good luck! P.S. If we set something to crowdsource the move would that sweeten the deal?
Nah, a butterfly knife would have gotten a suspension at least in my high school in the early 80s. A Swiss Army knife maybe what you describe. A throwing star probably would just have been chucked in the principal's trash can and you'd be made to write a 200 word paper on why bringing "ninja weapons" to school is stupid.
the funny part is is that banning things doesn't stop criminals from having them. Besides who's going to stop them from just using a hammer or a big stick.
Just make a hammer a specialty tool, need a license to own one, only for those in professions that require them. Illegal to pick up sticks. Cops will collect and burn them.
Yeah and matts example of weapons featured in walking deadare banned or they want to make them banned its genuinly true, and just highlights how nonsensical this is
@@jamielondon6436 but they pretty much shouldnt be, and this is more complicated thing like weed for example in lot of places its now you can use it, and anyways often in many countries if you are just user, and you are found on drugs in the streets theres nothing much that will happen to you if cops find you unless you do something in addition to that its more the amount of drugs you have with you, and all that, but all of those drug things work pretty much as well as when alcohol was banned. Why alcohol is different than drugs? Its genuinly pointless "war on drugs" its nonsense banning the substances just doesnt work. Those laws are as pointless as many of the weapon laws. Has nothing to do with are they banned its more are the laws actually effective
@@jamielondon6436 but my understanding (if what a police officer said at a meeting I went to is to be believed) is that drug taking is largely "accommodated".
@@stephena1196 Well, cops are not to be believed. No where just "accomodates" drug use. In some insane places cops will beat the fuck out of you and arrest you and put you in jail, where you can get way more drugs, or some places which offered people rehabilitation, turns out doctors are better at treating drug addiction than prison guards.
I really appreciate all the time you put into these videos Matt - hoping that the ship turns for you all in the UK, but if not, there's plenty of clubs here in the States that would LOVE to have you as an instructor!
As an American, we'd welcome you with open arms. I do, however, realize we have a lot of issues here as well. I unfortunately regard the US on its current trajectory as a sinking ship as well
@@Kyle-sr6jm Lol red states are just as bad if not worse. Texas and California are both terrible for the exact same reasons, regardless of whether it's Demonrats or Republicucks. At least when it's Democrats in charge you actually notice how bad it is, but when it's Republicans doing the same things you go to sleep and pretend they're fighting for you. Republicans are the ones who pass mass amnesties. Republicans like Ron Desantis are the ones passing anti free speech bills and flying to Israel to do it.
As someone who was a chef for well over 15 years, more than 20 if you including consulting; I assure you that if they banned kitchen knives, then YOU WON'T EAT. They are utterly necessary.
I'm surprised by the fact you said Teenage Mutant NINJA Turtles. I thought they were renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK, because I supposed people in the government thought all kids were gonna want to become ninja and make a mess. I might be wrong.
“Because of systemic cultural appropriation, we have decided to rebrand the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles!” -Some Idiot, probably Yeah, I can honestly see that sort of nonsense happening in 2023. Good to see you here, Metatron! I really liked your recent video on the Celts.
Bravo. Sane and rational. I filled in their questionaire thing. If we say nothing it's a case of "First they came for the lock knives and I said nothing. Then they came for zombie knives and I said nothing. Then they came for machetes and I said nothing. Then they came for the handcuffs and nobody else cared to speak out for handcuffs. If we allow them an inch they WILL take a mile.
I worked as a forestry technician for a long time. My main use for machetes was exotic invasive control for Chinese wisteria and surveying. There really is no better tool for the job.
If the British government really wanted to make things safer for the general public in an increasingly unsafe country, they would stop curtailing our right to self defence/preservation, by throwing the book at the victims if they dare use anything to sway the fight between them and their attacker in their favour, and allow people to own and carry implements such as knives, tasers and pepper spray to that end. Of course, firearms are the ideal option because they're effective if needed, generally safe as long as the user is well practised with the weapon, and have been proven in other countries to be highly effective at lowering overall crime rates with increased ownership due to the general deterrence factor of criminals not wanting to risk their lives over it, but I think its far more likely they would lift the ban on things like pepper spray than completely reconfigure UK gun laws. Instead, the government seems to be taking the stance, yet again, to punish law-abiding citizens for the actions of criminals by restricting our right to live our lives as we see fit.
It's bad that so many law abiding citizens are being repressed so much that they're considering leaving their ancestral lands, that they have roots running for a thousand years, for the few small bastions of freedom left in the entire world.
As long as you state that it is a tool and make no reference to self defence in anyway even if given a closed question or funnelling question. At that point the penknife is considered an offensive weapon.
My case for Texas: No state income tax, all knives and swords are completely legal (exceptions being ballistic knives, and school zones), real estate is cheap, cost of living is relatively low (e.g. low energy cost etc.), and these are just off the top of my head
Fantastic video, thank you for taking the time to further expound upon these things. I admit, I found the thing about "gardeners don't use machetes" funny. From watching your videos alone I've seen you use them plenty! Not to mention others in this sword sphere, and homesteaders for that matter. Everyone I know with any amount of land uses them for clearing brush.
Hey Matt, what are your concerns regarding moving to America? I ask because I know from conversing with them that very many Brits have the wrong idea about what life is like here. The USA is also very different legally and culturally, state to state. California is totally different from Texas, for example. I myself am planning an “emigration” out of California to a different state in the coming years, and CA being a nanny state like Britain is no small part of that decision. If you move to the US, we’d be glad to have you, but I wish you the best wherever you end up.
@@Darek_B52 You talk about "Europeans" and we talk about "Americans" and we are both guilty of gross oversimplification. Fact is that the EU is 27 culturally different states (with 24 official languages and a lot of minority languages) each with its own legal system and still does not encompass all of the European continent. In the same way, USA is 50 states (with no official language, but probably just as many languages as Europe) almost as autonomous as the states of Europe, with at least the same cultural and legal diversity while still not encompassing the whole North American continent. Both "Europeans" and "Americans" tend to talk about Africa and "Africans" and ususally paint an inner picture of some kind of plane where everyone is black, poor and and have the same culture and language. That's a continent that make both of our territories look small on a globe (The most common map projection increase apparent area more the furter away from the equator something is.) Distance causes misconceptions and cover up all nuances, both small and large. Not a single country or even city in the world can present a homogenous culture, even though the range of diversity tend to diminish with scale.
@@Blandge The sense comes from the fact that they're two completely different issues that are totally unrelated to each other and trying to conflate them is a ridiculous non-sequitur.
As a patriotic American I would say "God, no." The US is a failing democracy one bad day away from a literal by-the-book fascist coup. Gun violence is the third or fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of death for minors. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Our politics is broken. Our economic system is exploitative and designed to funnel all wealth to the very rich. Our healthcare system is an abomination. Our standard of living, lifespan, inequity, structural racism, and much more would be an embarrassment to any developed economy WHICH WE ARE NOT AND HAVE NOT BEEN FOR YEARS.
Maybe gardeners in london where gardens consists of lawns and flower beds don't use machettes but I've done garden work part time with a local gardner for a good 10 years, as well as working on my own garden and i can tell you yes gardeners do use machetes, it's the one tool ive used the most. Cutting back brambles, clearing brush, and thick weeds. Heck i just cleaned up my machete to do some gardening work this weekend. And consideri g that behind my garden is a patch of woodland that I'm also planning to do some work in (it's compleatly overgrown and isolated with the only access being via my back gate)
I am so glad that here in the United States, I live in a state where I am not questioned just for choosing to carry a knife, or just because I want to have a sword on my hip...just to carry it, because I *want* to. There's something to be said for that kind of freedom. "Because I like swords" should be reason enough to be seen carrying one, period. On another note, it is super interesting to hear about UK politics. Again, coming from the US, I can relate to only having 2 parties. Those from the US that say "vote for someone else" must be out of touch from our own politics as well. We in the US have two PRIMARY parties, the Democrats, and the Republicans. It is incredibly difficult to get anyone that isn't one of these two parties in office, particularly in the presidency. Also the US absolutely would welcome you--though I know you said there's reasons that would be off putting. I say the same thing whenever I consider immigration. Truth is, there's things about this country I live in I dislike, but when I look at what I dislike in other countries, there's nowhere else I can think I'd *want* to live, as there's always off-putting things when I do some research. I hope you don't come to a point where you NEED to move, but if you do, here's hoping you find a place that suits you!
I'm doing a PhD in ecology and have to do data collection in extremely dense wetland environments, full of brambles and thorn bushes. I need to use a machete to keep paths open to travel from A to B and to clear areas in front of camera traps during the summer. People in conservation also have to use machetes and billhooks to manage scrub. How on earth can they ban a tool thousands of people need to use for their job?
The thing that the government need to work on reducing the numbers of........ Are the social inequalities that produce the sources of, and reasons for, crime. But of course they won't.
Not so many years ago, you could have easily moved to any commonwealth country. Canada and Australia and New Zealand are great places to live. Canada doesn't have much for knife and gun laws, "for a purpose dangerous to the public peace" is pretty much all the law needed. I think having a successful business that you are willing to locate to a different country pretty much puts you to the top of the list for immigration. Businesses, i guess! Frankly, objectively, what country wouldn't want you as an immigrant, you contribute to the economy, to education, you are an asset to the country.
WHAT?! Canada? The country where the Prime Minister recently asserted that Canadians do NOT have the right to use guns to defend themselves even if someone breaks into their home? Quote: "“You can’t use a gun for self-protection in Canada. It’s not a right that you have.” - Justin Trudeau I would say it's better than the UK granted since you can actually still buy guns there but this is not a government I would entrust my freedoms to. Of course Matt is obviously more of a melee weapon guy so maybe he'd fare better. Still, if it were me I wouldn't choose to live in a country where if an armed invader enters my home and threatens my family, I'm the one who's in trouble if I shoot him.
I have maybe an eighth of an acre in the US and regularly use pruning saws, hatchets, bill hooks, and D-handled spades to cut wood or weeds. Have not gotten competent with a scythe yet. As a kid on the farm we used corn knives that were basically kama with a wavy blade
Lowe's had a cheap version of a bill hooks called a briar ax or brush ax and I used that until I broke the handle too badly (poor design using 3 screws and insufficient metal collaring) but found the D-handled spade worked better on overly tall grass and weeds. It is surprising how much damage you can cause with the edge of a shovel even if completely dull.
I know a group of people, that is no more, which resorted to using hatched handles for their dedicated weapons; so they wouldn't get into trouble from the police controls they were often subjected to. (They were a highly criminal group of very not so nice people.) But I aggree, the typical criminal doesn't care about what he is allowed to carry or not.
@@beepboop204 Weird that they use bear spray instead of pepper spray. It’s designed for use on bears, and works on different principles to pepper spray and isn’t as, shall we say, “spicy” as what you’d want to use on a human. I’ve accidentally inhaled bear spray before, and all it did was make me cough a little for a few seconds.
@@QualityPen Here in Germany pepper spray is only allowed to be used against animals. Against humans you would need to use CS gas. If I remember correctly that is.
@@QualityPen you cant buy pepper spray for people, but you can buy it for dogs or bears. and mostly they go for the bear stuff. you can google "winnipeg bear spray attack" if you want to see how our spray is highly unpleasant
I've been a gardener for 40 years, I'm senior gardener on a 150 acre estate. I use machetes, billhooks, scythes and large knives. We're moving away from petrol tools as much as possible.
Please fill in the consultation paper for the home office, from what I read online they are interested to see how much these tools are used. The more people who respond the better.
Being an American myself, I'll say that Americans telling people in the UK to vote for someone else is laughable. We only have two parties over here, as well. And neither get anything done. I apologize on behalf of some of my more ignorant, nationalistic countrymen. People who still think that voting the other party in is going to bring change still hang on to outdated narratives that don't work anymore. They can't see that our "democracy" is in steep decline and simply voting for the other party does nothing. Our problems are way past that. Whether we vote Republican (conservative) or Democrat (liberal), "The land of the free" isn't so free anymore. Our government needs an enema. Again, I apologize for these ignorant Americans that can't and don't want to see that the U.S. is ran by corporations now, almost exclusively. Elected officials couldn't make change if they wanted to. But, the vast majority of them wouldn't give up the bribes from lobbyists even if they could. Anyway, rant over. Love your channel!
That's rediculous for them to try and do. My heart goes out to all of you over there. Keep your heads up and don't give up fighting for the changes that you can get those exemptions.
im over 50 (BA12) in my life i remember 3 murders that i knew people involved, 3,he was beaten to death with a fence post (both teens), 2, town drunk was killed in his own kitchen with a sours pan by a teen(they were friends) 1,my last maths teacher murdered her love rival (his wife) with an axe then hacked his new born baby's head off (i was 15) if you do any kind of combat training you soon learn that ANYTHING can be a weapon.
Do you recall about 5 or 6 years ago when the Chief Constable of Cheshire (a female naturally) proposed that all knives, of any type including kitchen knives, should henceforth have a square end? Words fail in attempting a response.
Machetes are absolutely great for clearing laurels, brambles and other shrubs and bushes. Plenty of people who have city gardens use them too. In fact, I'm going to have to get a spare in case they ban them. Oddly enough, clearing shrubs would be one of the specialised circumstances where adding serrations to part of the blade would have a potential use. It's certainly not going to make the tool any more dangerous in a fight. Whilst drug gangs are heavily involved in knife crime, they don't even generally fight over territory that much any more. If you want to buy drugs, you usually just phone someone or message them. It's usually kinda pointless standing on a corner selling drugs these days, as it makes you easy to arrest, rob or attack and puts most customers off, as it does the same to them. A lot of the stabbings are done as retribution for being robbed by another gang, or because they're afraid the other guy will stab them if they don't act first. A lot of it is just really, really nihilistic stuff done by teenagers to other teens because they don't have anything positive to live for and acts of violence at least allow them to gain status or notoriety among a violent peer group. I.e. all side effects of growing up surrounded by poverty and violence.
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If you ban machettes, they gonna use hammers. If people want to hurt others, they will always find a way. The problem is not with the tools, but with the people who use them, but it's easier to ban certain items than fix social problems.
I live in Prague. I take a sabre to show kids in my history classes. I go to cut plastic bottles to a park in the city centre every now and then. I carry a bowie knife when I go camping in the woods. I carry a revolver when I go to a range. And the rate of crime involving weapons is really very low here. You're very welcome in Prague 😁
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Because you guys actually fight crimes and criminals, so people feel safe. In the UK they have such a high crime rate and their government is so incompetent, that they resort to banning random objects to not be accused of doing nothing about it.
We have this problem in the US,somebody goes and uses a gun to cause all kinds of havoc and first thing: "we must ban guns!" and I always say it's not the gun you have to worry about it's the fool holding it,you can blame an object and take them away but in the end it's the intent of the person that is going to cause trouble and taking objects away ain't going to help.
Our news makes it look scarier than it is. It is better than many options. Many European countries that allow swords will require them to be modified or dulled, normally with Antiques being the only exception
22:52 i emigrated to the US in 2009, and it was the best thing i ever did. I absolutely love it here. It's really sad watching from afar as the UK declines.
This is why we need a formal constitution and 2nd amendment in the UK. Well we do sort of, it's in the Bill of Rights 1688/1689 and Declaration of Rights 1689.
Anyone who wants to respond to the consultation period but is not sure of everything they want to add, I would also like as many people as possible to point out that big knives are for different purposes than small knives. I am talking from a bushcraft stand point now I often use a large knife for chopping paired with a folding saw instead of the more traditional small knife with hatchet combination. Any one who does respond I don't think pointing out that big knives are useful for different things to small knives will hurt our case.
There was a guy in Oregon or Washington arrested for having a hunting knife attached to his belt while he was in public. He left the house that morning intending on going fishing but ended up helping his brother work on a roof. If he had gone fishing he would not have been arrested. Since "roofing" is not an authorized activity for having the knife the arrest held. I'm afraid most of the world is a sinking ship. It's just a matter of which particular ship (whatever issue concerns you) is sinking slower.
I am sorry for him, but Law everywhere expects people to be careful and police themselves. Drivers have to be responsible for their vehicles and their handling of them and so knife (or other weapon owner/users) have to be careful, too. In the UK the laws on everyday carry are very strict, but we can carry tools that fall outside the normal limits if we have a legitimate purpose - a cook having a cook's knife, a fisherman or hunter having a suitable tool for those tasks. If the hunting knife was of some use in roofing, then he would have a legitimate defence in the UK [- I know a roofer who has a large fixed-blade knife for that purpose] and would be safe on site. If he left the site, then he would be expected to remove the knife and pack it away securely. The same would apply to a knife that was not needed for the task at hand. This seems like common sense, after all the hunter wouldn't absent-mindedly take a shotgun or hunting rifle into the local bank or post office, would he? One danger of unrestricted carry laws for knives or other objects is the possibility you might get used to carrying it and forget it is there. I nearly got arrested (in the UK) because I bought an antique knife on holiday and forgot it was in my everyday carry bag and went into a court (US courthouse) and my bag got scanned. Thankfully, the knife was still as wrapped by the shopkeeper and I had the receipt. I apologised profusely and handed over the knife and got it back at the end of the day. That was over 30 years ago and I doubt if I would have got away so lightly nowadays. But it would have been my own fault.
Actually, you are telling something which did not happen, an untruth. Oregon Law is very, VERY permissive when it comes to non-concealed weapons. You can carry nunchaku, a sword, brass knuckles, and a blackjack as long as they are visible. Knives wouldn't even move the dial. So please don't say things that didn't happen.
Last time I used my machetes was at an Airsoft Site in a conifer woodland site during Build Days building defensive positions and cutting back branches. Chainsaws were also used.
Much as I agree that the proposed ban is ill-conceived and largely pointless, the argument that criminals will just use something else is weak. Making weapons less accessible does impact crime. My brother-in-law once wanted to go after someone with a hammer. I took it off him, wouldn't let him go out with it. He said "I'll just get another weapon on the way." I said, "go ahead and do that." He went out... and didn't assault anyone. Adding that simple barrier stopped him. He could have picked up a rock on route, but he didn't. He went out and sulked, calmed down and came home. And he absolutely would have taken a hammer to someone; he had before and since. Take a gun off someone, they don't just go to a knife instead. If they've got a weapon to hand in anger, they use it. If they have to look for a weapon, they calm down in that time and generally don't. Violence is impulsive, adding steps between thought and deed massively reduces actual incidents. Core points, this ban is daft and isn't really addressing a problem. But the notion that people would just use a different weapon is a deeply flawed argument popularized by the US gun lobby.
Hey Matt! Watching these as a water sports/ outdoor activity instructor worries me. As a legal requirement for our job we carry utility knives. Mine meets all three criteria of this new law. It has holes in the blade for opening boat bungs (a fairly standard feature on water sport/ sailing knives). It has a serrated section for cutting through rope and then a straight edge section (also for cutting rope/ nets/ fishing line). That knife has quite literally saved lives, from underwater entrapments where people were stuck on ropes or under sails, to birds and animals caught in fishing lines. If this law comes through the way it is, we'll have to do an instructor knife amnesty and spend quite a lot of money replacing all of our staffs kit. (mine also doubles as a whistle with one built into the handle which is super useful and I don't want to give that feature up!). Are we supposed to carry three different knives and various tools to do all the different jobs we need them to do now? Utter madness that wont stop the problem!
Matt, thank you for expressing yourself on this. It’s refreshing to hear someone explain their perspective in calm, objective manner. The proposed machete ban is eerily similar to what’s going on in the States with firearms. Sadly, the reasons for the violence here are probably as well understood by your government as they are by mine. Banning an object isn’t the same as preventing its use in a crime. Good luck sir!
Both parties are rotten to the core. The only fighting chance you have of electing some one that actually cares to do the job is at the state and local level. Federal politics is just a dog and pony show.
Born Czech and naturalised Frenchman, I can recommend both countries. In France, choose wisely your department though (Brittany or Normandy are really quite good). Czech Republic is nice almost everywhere
Don't bother considering Canada. We have become North Korea West. Our PM is banning everything. He is so insane I wouldn't be surprised if he would try to ban kitchen knives. Czech Republic sound interesting - good gun laws and the home of Adam Celadin, world knife throwing champion. Some other Eastern European nations? Best wishes, Matt.
Was my understanding that sword laws are way more relaxed there? yOu can still walk into a store and buy. In comparison to British laws it seems night and day.
In absence of cognitive issues, inequality causes more knife attacks than knives. I've never been attacked by my knives, they just kind of sit in the kitchen waiting to attack their true enemy... food stuffs. However, I was stabbed once by a person who later went to prison for, let's just say he really loved kids. No, he didn't stab me with a knife, he stabbed me with a nine inch cement nail wrapped in a scrap of leather. I have a nice little defensive scar on my right wrist, but it's much better than the amateur lobotomy he had planned. So, long story short, he accidently gave me the nail. I tried to give it back, but other than a really close look that I gave him, right under his eye, he didn't want it back. So I tossed it and reminded him why he needed it in the first place. He decided that diplomacy was best.
Time, place, and manner restrictions on carry frequently expand in scope until they end up as nearly complete possession bans for the majority of people. Reading the history of English firearm restrictions, it was the same ratcheting up of restrictions based on public fear and demands to "do something", not actual crime rates (or the resulting lack of statistical effect of those restrictions in reducing them). Chief Inspector Colin Greenwood's "Firearms Control: A Study of Armed Crime and Firearms Control in England and Wales" (1972) is enlightening.
Thank you for the insights. Good to hear intelligent points in both videos. If you decide to immigrate I recommend my home of Canada. The higher income of America without the crime. At the same time you have access to the USA market. Also a commonwealth country so you will recognize the government system (for the good and bad). We have a points system to immigrate (eg speak English have a degree etc) and we are looking for people.
How many kitchen knives in my house? There are 2 knife blocks on different countertops & 4 drawers that have at least 6 or 8 knives. There is also a good sized tool box with our catering kit with a bunch of different knives. There are 3 chefs in this house!
Mat, you will indeed be welcome here in the Czech republic with all your swords and other pointy things. And you could take Tod along, so the duties for his knives are not so bloody expensive 😂
My father knew a criminal, he sharpened coins to hold between fingers in a fight, for slashing, then you just trow them away before the police arrives. That was a long time ago...with bigger sized coins. You can make a mace with large bolts...Or just have them on a string.
I feel like the argument, "If it's banned, they'll have a hard time getting them" only works for things that are specifically designed to kill and are hard or inconvenient to make. Because yes, banning or heavily restricting guns would significantly lower the amount of crime involving them, and Japan is a perfect example of this. It's newsworthy when someone commits a gun crime in Japan. With knives, you can make something more dangerous than a lot of knives very quickly. There's a world of difference between making your own firearm, making a firearm that's actually good at being a firearm, and making something sharp and/or pointy. Anyone with some power tools can make a really good knife out of a wrench, and someone with some wood and a little X-Acto blade can make a spike, but guns are another world. The argument works well for guns, but definitely less so for knives.
It always boils down to governments not addressing the root cause so they can profit or gain power from the confusion.
It's not about profit, it's about the agenda. The agenda is White replacement and they know that the majority of knife crime is done by Blacks and other non-White immigrants, so they don't talk about it because talking about race leads to uncomfortable questions such as Why aren't we banning illegal migrants instead of kitchen knives?
Or benefit special groups or classes who influence government.
c. 25yrs ago I went to a meeting, as a member of a tenants association, about combatting youth crime. Most were there to get funding for their companies and there was a panel on the stage of people from the government. I said if it's getting worse as you've said, then what you've been funding isn't helping and if you fund it again next year it'll continue not to work again next year. I mentioned how large cities of Victorian Britain had gangs of youths fighting each other usually with knives and clubs. One in Manchester lasted several days involving hundreds of youths was eventually broken up by the army. What eventually stopped it was the setting up of something akin to youth clubs (usually set up by local churches, The Boys and Girls Club, Manchester City football club etc started as one of those). That if it worked then, then it could work now and clearly what you'd chosen to fund doesn't work. The head of the panel replied, "Send us a business plan" and the rest of the panel giggled.
As someone from a country where this is already the norm, this sounds disturbing.
I think goverments should focus on the "intent of the crime" and "the most common cause and location", and not the "tools" in the crime it self! those are useful for determening guilt, as a piece of evidence!
That said, I don't live in the UK, so will not try to effect the council! Mostly because I think it a UK issue and it should be handled by the people of the country!
Good luck! and I hope it works out for you all!
I volunteer at a nature reserve where it's impractical to use power tools. We absolutely need tools like these as everything needs to be carried on foot to the work areas.
Please bring this up in the consultation. The more people who respond the better.
Prisoners make knifes out of literally anything. Banning knifes does not stop the crimes
I'm buying shares in a steel ruler company
That is a case in point for why we need to expand the legislation & banning of these dangerous implements.
Unless you're a professional yard worker there is literally no reason for regular citizens to own things like machetes & saws.
As far as knives we need to get rid of them writ large, and switch to sporks (rounded prongs of course)
@@MyMomSaysImKeen i don't know if you are being serious about that or not but if only professional gardeners had these tools and not home owners then people would need to pay the professionals to do the work for them and depending on the size of land they might not be able to afford it and if things are over grown and unkept that is a hazard
@@MyMomSaysImKeen 😂 your the type that be first on the train to gas chambers
@@MyMomSaysImKeen sounds like you're insane, or is this an joke?
*'For every complicated problem, there is always a solution that is short, simple, and wrong.'*
- attributed to H.L. Mencken
Your point about people in PRISON still being able to manufacture sharp pointy objects capable of murder is spot on and that alone should be enough to close this debate once and for all. History has proven over and over and over and over again that if there's a will, there's a way. That's it.
its not the thing they stab with that is important, its that they want to stab someone - deal with that root cause
I'm a blacksmith and can make stuff that would send the machete boys running with wet pants LoL
Britain has been running on fumes for decades, if not a century, by this point.
Some of those fumes smell like freedom although the source is long gone.
Banning any blade as well as the ability to speak freely. Not hard to see why things are getting worse in many of our countries.
You think you can fight the government with a knife.
The pen is no longer allowed to be mightier than the sword, it seems.
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"Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose." 🗿
@@julianshepherd2038 I'm sure this non sequitur made sense in your mind somehow.
@@julianshepherd2038 I think i can fight a mugger with a knife a hell of alot better than my hand.
When carrying a knife was commonplace knife crime was just about zero. Boy scouts and girl guides carried knives.When quill pens were used for writing you repaired it with a pen knife. The fact that everybody openly carried and used them cancelled out any trendyness,or the "oooh youve got a knife" factor. They are tackling it the wrong way.
@@willfox1037could still carry my Scout knife in the early 90s. However 40 Czech scouts coming over to the UK for a camp all ran afoul of customs due to the fixed blade they wore as part of uniform. By 1997 I could no longer carry anything but a penknife and chopping wood required a certification. By the 2000s the many of activities associated with Scouting were no longer permitted for Scouts. They may not fire air-weapons under any circumstances, you are usually 16+ before you can even think about a handaxe, and even setting up archery activities is tough (notably the bow and arrow is completely legal)
The PC culture might have started back in the 50s, but it went exponential at the turn of the millennium
@@celem91 fixed blade knife bans have nothing to do with political correctness. 🙄
@@Uruz2012 no, but our knives were phased out of uniform despite being under length and legal. You just can't convince the general public that children are competent enough to bear them
It's kinda sus that knife crime goes up as more things become crimes with knives?
Remember the time they banned drugs and that reduced drug use and crime related to drugs? Oh wait...
It's funny, assault and murder have always been illegal.
Drugs are in a different category than guns. The US tried to ban alcohol and it backfired, the violence of prohibition ended when the ban was repealed. So I would prefer to decriminalise drugs so that the criminal profits are reduced. Guns are heavily restricted in the UK, but there is not a massive desire for gun ownership - as there was for the consumption of alcohol in the US. What needs to be addressed is why people want or need drugs and why they want to fight or kill. Leaving drug gang violence aside, why do young people want to carry knives? Fear of others? Self defence? If so, the solution is creating the problem. When I was a kid knives were more freely available and the laws were somewhat less draconian. Stupidly, I sometimes carried knives, but I knew what they could do (as tools and as a result of accidently cutting myself once or twice) and as a result I have never wanted to stab or cut someone else. I grew up at a time when it was expected you might have a pocket knife or belong to the Scouts, so you were also expected to know how and why to use a knife responsibly. Now people see them solely as weapons, via games and films. We knew knives `could` be weapons, we had books and films and tv, but we also saw them being used and used them ourselves, non-violently.
States which have legqalized cannabis, regulated, and taxed it have enjoyed many benefits.
My State decriminalized heroin, meth, fentanyl, and cocaine. It has been a disaster
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Why do you want to be the nr 1 in a gang? For the prestige so you get the best girls in your probably short life.
Tackling real issues is expensive. Making a show of doing something without actually achieving any real results is way more cost effective.
And as an added bonus everyone is less free. I see why governments love this idea.
@@adamshaw8955 Yeah, if they really wanted to make the general public safer, they'd allow and encourage people to carry implements like tasers, pepper spray, pistols, etc for use in self defence situations. The increased risk for the criminals would lower the violent crime rate almost immediately and that has been repeatedly shown in the US (where the places with more people carrying guns corresponds to lower crime rates and the places with the most strict gun laws having the most violent crime by a large margin) and other countries
Czech Republic has its issues, but looking around us, I am not tempted to emigrate to any other country. Watching the news from around the world makes me feel like we are one of the least crazy places...
At least you guys can own guns
@@DJRockford83 Is firearm ownership considered a right or a privilege there?
@@Joe_Friday You can own firearms (no fully automatic though) after you complete a two part test (written test regarding the laws, shooting and handling practical test) to get your firearms license. Concealed carry is allowed (apart from places like concerts etc.) for the purposes of self-defense.
@@PajaKulebrc My worry is if some type of shooting made headlines the government could/would ban ownership. Kinda like they recently did in New Zealand. Just like they've done/continue to do in Canada. It's so much easier to ban these things in other countries when compared to the US because it's a right here and a privilege in most other places.
@@PajaKulebrc impressed with those laws, it seems eastern Europe has some of the best firearms laws. I am American and own firearms myself, but have no problem with testing being done. Just go to a public range here in the US, it can be shocking how incompetent and irresponsible some people are. For instance when I was eighteen I bought my first rifle, I walked into a gun show with some cash, walked out later with a rifle in my arms. They didn't even do background checks back then. It's a little too easy.
A civilized society is not one without weapons. A civilized society is one where the people may have them and be trusted to have them.
Those who cannot be or are not civilized have no business being society in the first place.
And yet those are the ones in charge of society.
More to the point, a disarmed population is a slave population. Politicians don't care about people killing each other in the streets, they just don't want us to be able to kill THEM in the streets.
There's no such thing as a civilized society.
An armed society is not a polite society. It is a society where people murder each other. Stand Your Ground and unrestricted carry of firearms in the US has led us to the New Normal of more than one mass shooting every day and people carrying rifles to get a loaf of bread at the store in order to intimidate the people around them with the unspoken statement "I can kill you. You can't do a damned thing about it."
Some people can be trusted with repeating firearms. Others cannot. The problem with "law-abiding citizens should be trusted with any weapon, anywhere, anytime" is that every mass shooting, every domestic violence murder was committed by someone who was a law-abiding Good Guy With a Gun right up until the final second. I used to be a life member of the NRA, shot IDPA, and had a CCW. But the last fifteen years have shown that there have to be minimum standards of stability and competence.
@@Gainn We know all about the history of dueling. It didn't lead to people being polite. Young dudes with more testosterone than myelin killed each other. A lot. Bullying was backed up by the threat of death. Murder became normalized. And the authorities everywhere hated it.
In societies where it was caste-based it led to the armed castes committing murder against the unarmed with impunity.
"An armed society is a polite society"" was a feel-good throwaway line from a work of fiction almost a hundred years ago. The author was all-in for eugenics and believed that lots of legalized violence would allow the genetically superior to rule over everyone else AS WAS THEIR RIGHT. It meant the elderly, the disabled, and, since going armed was the prerogative of men, women were forced to debase themselves to fit, young, male bullies.
I'm sure you're aware of this Matt but Glasgow made great strides in reducing knife violence by treating it as a primarily social problem and concentrating less on the criminal element.
People who's basic socioeconomic needs are abundantly met rarely turn to violent crime. That's why there's less crime in affluent suburbs than in poor inner cities. Solve the crushing, soul-destroying poverty, and you solve the crime.
Talking of Glasgow: I wonder where the 'gardeners', who the old Victor Morris shop on Argyle Street sold machetes to, buy their 'gardening' equipment now. 😁
@@barnettmcgowan8978 Very true
@@barnettmcgowan8978 poverty is one piece of the puzzle. Raising your kids right is the other one. We get apprentices who used to get into trouble with law enforcement and we manage to fix most of them.
@@blarfroer8066 The same is true in the US. Programs that work to redirect young people from troubled neighborhoods yield results. However, the root cause is poverty. If you don't address poverty, you can't solve the problem. Society is a social contract, and when a community feels unfairly treated, the larger society will get responses they don't like and deem antisocial.
This tyranny needs to end
@@samuelpatton5148 They basically succeeded in taking the guns. It's such a ball ache to get them.
Guess they need to ban cars, because gangsters use those too.
It's coming but not for crime reasons
Thousands of people get killed in traffic. Buses, trams, trains and electric bikes could handle all necessary traffic with less casualties. No politician dares to suggest a car ban, though, even when it would spare more lives than any weapon ban ever.
Yes that's planned by 2030.
Rather just use them to monitor your actions and be able to shut it down and lock you up remotely.. electric boogie
Gangsters died out in the 1970s, today all we have is thugs
Politicians work in the best interest of themselves... not the people. Always have...always will.😊
Governments are often the best that money can buy.
That is a self-serving do-nothing nihilistic lie pushed by oligarchs and fascists to deny the fact that government can, in fact work very well, especially when it is responsive to the people rather than the rich and the corporations.
Politicians need to address criminals rather than the weapons criminals use.
They need to adress both, but with common sense
Address themselves?
@@Xmara01 Exactly. Politicians ARE criminals.
But that’s difficult, that’s potentially expensive…
Yes, lets all get guns and then we will be as safe as Americans 😂😂😂😂😂
Criminals don't obey laws, enough said.
but supply and demand does impact their decisions, where i live, you most likely to get shot by a zipgun, but more likely than that, you go mess around in the ghetto, and you gonna get hit with bear spray and machetes
@beepboop204 doesn't affect the murder and violence rate though.
@@zoanth4 less access to lethal potential means less lethal results. Humanity has fought wars for millennia but you will notice they became far more destructive with access to better force multipliers.
I mean people who want to do harm will definitely so regardless, and the effort should be placed on stopping that at the source, but restrictions aren't totally ineffective in principle.
@@MisterCynic18 you're objectively wrong
@@beepboop204 It’s not easy to reduce supply, especially without trampling on the rights of law-abiding citizens. In the USA, something like 80% of guns used in crime are illegally obtained. All the anti-gun laws in crime-ridden holes like Chicago have done absolutely nothing to stop criminals from getting their hands on firearms but have succeeded in disarming law-abiding citizens and keeping them from defending themselves- which just means the criminals can be armed and never have to fear an armed victim, thus making them much bolder.
Reducing the supply of firearms is very difficult. Reducing the supply of sharp objects is impossible. So is reducing the supply of blunt force objects. When all else fails, criminals can always resort to beating someone to death without any weapons at all… More people in the USA are beaten to death each year than killed with rifles.
In all cases it’s much, much, better to address the underlying causes of crime. Go after gangs. Go after smugglers and straw purchasers. Raise the penalties so crime has a real cost, not a slap on the wrist. Start cultural initiatives to make criminal culture, especially at a young age, NOT cool. Etc. There are places in the US which have few gun laws and almost no homicide, because they follow these steps. There are also places in the US which have extremely restrictive gun laws but skyrocketing rates of homicide, because they don’t follow these steps and criminals don’t follow gun laws.
How many times do new laws have to have predictable negative effect before people seriously consider the possibility that those negative effects are the desired effects?
I can tell you that decriminalizing cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and meth in my State has been a complete disaster. There is no question at all about this.
@@toddellner5283 what state is that?
@@iapetusmccool Oregon
I thought the UK government was behaving idiotically years ago when I read they banned blowguns. I doubt very much if a single blowgun was ever used in a crime. I hadn't known about the throwing stars, but it's just as stupid. I lived in Ireland for 4 years in the '90s, and only briefly visited the UK. I'd love to see a lot of it that I didn't have the money to go see back then (I was a poor college student). But I wouldn't live there for love nor money now. People are being jailed for "hate speech" which _can_ be whatever anyone in power says it is. And things like this... They are banning certain things, not because those things are genuine tools of criminal behavior, but because they are simply things that those in power have decided other people shouldn't own.
The only thing that happened with the lunacy of banning blowguns is that vets could not easily anaesthetise animals in a zoo. Mad.
Also, the harder it is to get hold of them, the higher the prestige associated with using them. The only ones who will be affected by any ban, are law-abiding citizens.
That makes absolutely no sense man...
@@Kwijiboz how are you not able to comprehend that laws only restrict the law abiding?
@@Kwijiboz Yes it does.
@@stefthorman8548 🤦🏻
@@Kwijiboz If a criminal owns an illegal object that is difficult to obtain it gives them a way to brag or show off. Increased scarcity means increased value.
As a Canadian I feel your pain.
Fight for your rights
why? you can open carry any blade if its your tool. i always carry a knife on me. never had any issues.
@beepboop204 i think he was talking about general infringements on self defense regardless of weapon type.
@@zoanth4 yes
@beepboop204 the government thinks we shouldn't have anything.
For example: They made switch blades illegal, but the government officials like my local fire chief have them. If there's no reasons to have one besides using it for crime then why would a fire chief have one. Because it's not about criminals
Thank you,, excellent as always sir.
Ive spoken to several people about this and I've been shocked.
People aren't thinking at all. If they ever did.
I read out what the government wants banned and many folk were ,, 'Whats up?'
I then explained some simple points like: 'You own alot of these thing's yourselves!' Billhooks, camping machetes! etc..
I don't think many folk are aware of what this law really means.
"Oh yeah." was one reply.
LOL, kids hurting themselves at school with ninja stars in the 80s. Ah the 1980s where you could take a butterfly knife into school, if you were caught it would be confiscated and given back to you at the end of the day. How times have changed.
In Sweden during the 70's no one cared about knives in small town schools unless it was a stiletto. (They didn't like kids messing around with big ass Bowie knives on the Stockholm subway though.) Those were usually confiscated. Nowadays you get prosecuted if they find a knife in the glove compartment of you own car. Knives used to be tools, but are now regarded as "items specifically intended for crimes against life and health".
Do we have less deadly violence that before? Not at all, we have more and deadlier violence. The bad guys are now using firearms (illegal eastern bloc military weapons) instead of knives and are becoming more and more organized in large gangs instead of operating alone or in small groups.
The political solution: Ban more kinds of strange looking knives and guns that "have a military look" and make legal gun ownership for hunters and competitive shooters more complicated.
when they would sell you ninja weapons the back of comic books.
They also banned nunchaku and jo/bo staves...
The ironic thing here, is that the nunchaku are more likely to hurt the user than anyone else, unless they know what they're doing (in which case they likely don't need them to injure other people) and the staves are, essentially, just big sticks. The Jo staff is just a 3 foot broom handle, in effect... and yet those are banned too.
Matt my vote is that you come to America. We would love to have you. Yes, better weapon laws but there are so many more reasons. It would be great for your business. It would be great for your channel. You could live out your last of the Mohican fantasies! It opens up a whole new world for reenactments and HEMA education. Lucy and the kids would love it (no need to learn a new language). If they balk at the idea just show them the prices on things. It is so much cheaper than in Europe and that is for almost everything. We don't have a VAT tax (yet) and some states do not have a sales tax (some others do not have an income tax). Try this: sell them on taking a vacation here if they have not already. If they love it - go for it. You are a family man and family matters most. You are a smart chap so you could do business anywhere but having a happy family will make the move, and life in general, much easier. Whatever you decide - good luck! P.S. If we set something to crowdsource the move would that sweeten the deal?
Nah, a butterfly knife would have gotten a suspension at least in my high school in the early 80s. A Swiss Army knife maybe what you describe. A throwing star probably would just have been chucked in the principal's trash can and you'd be made to write a 200 word paper on why bringing "ninja weapons" to school is stupid.
the funny part is is that banning things doesn't stop criminals from having them. Besides who's going to stop them from just using a hammer or a big stick.
So whyndo countries with strict gun control have lower homocide rates?
New law, fists are banned. Report to a police station to have them removed.
You make a good point. BAN THEM TOO
Just make a hammer a specialty tool, need a license to own one, only for those in professions that require them.
Illegal to pick up sticks. Cops will collect and burn them.
@@Justin-pe9cl All sticks/wooden branches/etc and stones are banned. ;-)
Always amazes me that banning weapons will be effective but banning drugs is pointless😂😂😂
Yeah and matts example of weapons featured in walking deadare banned or they want to make them banned its genuinly true, and just highlights how nonsensical this is
Drugs literally are banned pretty much everywhere.
@@jamielondon6436 but they pretty much shouldnt be, and this is more complicated thing like weed for example in lot of places its now you can use it, and anyways often in many countries if you are just user, and you are found on drugs in the streets theres nothing much that will happen to you if cops find you unless you do something in addition to that its more the amount of drugs you have with you, and all that, but all of those drug things work pretty much as well as when alcohol was banned. Why alcohol is different than drugs? Its genuinly pointless "war on drugs" its nonsense banning the substances just doesnt work. Those laws are as pointless as many of the weapon laws. Has nothing to do with are they banned its more are the laws actually effective
@@jamielondon6436 but my understanding (if what a police officer said at a meeting I went to is to be believed) is that drug taking is largely "accommodated".
@@stephena1196 Well, cops are not to be believed. No where just "accomodates" drug use. In some insane places cops will beat the fuck out of you and arrest you and put you in jail, where you can get way more drugs, or some places which offered people rehabilitation, turns out doctors are better at treating drug addiction than prison guards.
It’s like trying to stop obesity by banning spoons
Or having a sugar tax
I really appreciate all the time you put into these videos Matt - hoping that the ship turns for you all in the UK, but if not, there's plenty of clubs here in the States that would LOVE to have you as an instructor!
If you're gonna ban knives, you'll need to ban steel first.
And 3d printers
Lol then they would have to ban flint and other stones then pointy sticks 😂
@@Moth86 A POINTED STICK!!!
Don't give them ideas!
Ceramic bladed? Flint? Obsidian?
As an American, we'd welcome you with open arms. I do, however, realize we have a lot of issues here as well. I unfortunately regard the US on its current trajectory as a sinking ship as well
Most of the west is on a path of self destruction, some parts are just further along the path than the rest.
Every White country is being sunk on purpose.
Your state maybe.
Free Red States are doing fine, except for the border failures.
@@Kyle-sr6jm Lol red states are just as bad if not worse. Texas and California are both terrible for the exact same reasons, regardless of whether it's Demonrats or Republicucks. At least when it's Democrats in charge you actually notice how bad it is, but when it's Republicans doing the same things you go to sleep and pretend they're fighting for you. Republicans are the ones who pass mass amnesties. Republicans like Ron Desantis are the ones passing anti free speech bills and flying to Israel to do it.
@@Kyle-sr6jm I'm in Texas. Cities are still doing plenty of stupid things. And the country as a whole is in a downward spiral
As someone who was a chef for well over 15 years, more than 20 if you including consulting; I assure you that if they banned kitchen knives, then YOU WON'T EAT. They are utterly necessary.
But do they have to be pointy.
Mostly not it seems.
UK bans all types of fountain pens and cricket bats…next up: all rocks larger than a wee baby’s fist.
Smash the rocks! Smash the rocks! Smash the rocks! Save the children! Smash the rocks!
An unprecedented turn as the UK government tears down Stonehenge for violating its new policies on the maximum size of rocks.
That seems pretty big why do you need that big of a rock.
Haha! This all would make a great Monty Python sketch. My god, how this world needs MP in a serious way.
Welp, I used to post satire memes about this shit and here we are reality catching up.
I take your point about alternative weapons. Maybe we should also think about the abolition of blunt weapons too?
I'm surprised by the fact you said Teenage Mutant NINJA Turtles. I thought they were renamed Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK, because I supposed people in the government thought all kids were gonna want to become ninja and make a mess. I might be wrong.
If so, you are at least entertainingly wrong. 😄
“Because of systemic cultural appropriation, we have decided to rebrand the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles!” -Some Idiot, probably
Yeah, I can honestly see that sort of nonsense happening in 2023. Good to see you here, Metatron! I really liked your recent video on the Celts.
Ninjas? I didn't see them coming 😂
They were when the original cartoon and toys came out in the 80s/90s. All the rebooted versions that came out later stayed as ninjas though.
I love how absolutely candid you are. God bless you.
I love the rounded knife tips "solution". Those who promote it seem unaware that we live on a planet made of sharpening stone.
Bravo. Sane and rational. I filled in their questionaire thing. If we say nothing it's a case of "First they came for the lock knives and I said nothing. Then they came for zombie knives and I said nothing. Then they came for machetes and I said nothing. Then they came for the handcuffs and nobody else cared to speak out for handcuffs. If we allow them an inch they WILL take a mile.
I worked as a forestry technician for a long time. My main use for machetes was exotic invasive control for Chinese wisteria and surveying. There really is no better tool for the job.
That would be a good point to bring up if you are responding to the home office consultation.
@@adamshaw8955 I don't think my opinion matters. As I live in the USA.
If the British government really wanted to make things safer for the general public in an increasingly unsafe country, they would stop curtailing our right to self defence/preservation, by throwing the book at the victims if they dare use anything to sway the fight between them and their attacker in their favour, and allow people to own and carry implements such as knives, tasers and pepper spray to that end. Of course, firearms are the ideal option because they're effective if needed, generally safe as long as the user is well practised with the weapon, and have been proven in other countries to be highly effective at lowering overall crime rates with increased ownership due to the general deterrence factor of criminals not wanting to risk their lives over it, but I think its far more likely they would lift the ban on things like pepper spray than completely reconfigure UK gun laws.
Instead, the government seems to be taking the stance, yet again, to punish law-abiding citizens for the actions of criminals by restricting our right to live our lives as we see fit.
It's bad that so many law abiding citizens are being repressed so much that they're considering leaving their ancestral lands, that they have roots running for a thousand years, for the few small bastions of freedom left in the entire world.
Where are these bastions of freedom? I'm ready to pack my bags
I responded online, adding links to documents that show, the best way to deal with knife crime is education and early intervention.
Well said, Matt. I carry a pocket knife everyday. Its a tool. I hope this law doesn't pass for you guys! Stay strong.
As long as you state that it is a tool and make no reference to self defence in anyway even if given a closed question or funnelling question. At that point the penknife is considered an offensive weapon.
My case for Texas: No state income tax, all knives and swords are completely legal (exceptions being ballistic knives, and school zones), real estate is cheap, cost of living is relatively low (e.g. low energy cost etc.), and these are just off the top of my head
I would love to live in Texas, but I would die from the heat.
It is really frustrating to hear such a logical and well reasoned argument and know that it will almost certainly make not one iota of difference.
"This is allowed" vs. "this is your right"
Yeah, right.
Fantastic video, thank you for taking the time to further expound upon these things. I admit, I found the thing about "gardeners don't use machetes" funny. From watching your videos alone I've seen you use them plenty! Not to mention others in this sword sphere, and homesteaders for that matter. Everyone I know with any amount of land uses them for clearing brush.
Hey Matt, what are your concerns regarding moving to America?
I ask because I know from conversing with them that very many Brits have the wrong idea about what life is like here. The USA is also very different legally and culturally, state to state. California is totally different from Texas, for example. I myself am planning an “emigration” out of California to a different state in the coming years, and CA being a nanny state like Britain is no small part of that decision.
If you move to the US, we’d be glad to have you, but I wish you the best wherever you end up.
Don't worry, we Americans are incredibly naive about how Europe, or anywhere really, works.
Most places that at pro gun are also anti abortion. How does that make any sense?
@@Darek_B52 You talk about "Europeans" and we talk about "Americans" and we are both guilty of gross oversimplification.
Fact is that the EU is 27 culturally different states (with 24 official languages and a lot of minority languages) each with its own legal system and still does not encompass all of the European continent. In the same way, USA is 50 states (with no official language, but probably just as many languages as Europe) almost as autonomous as the states of Europe, with at least the same cultural and legal diversity while still not encompassing the whole North American continent. Both "Europeans" and "Americans" tend to talk about Africa and "Africans" and ususally paint an inner picture of some kind of plane where everyone is black, poor and and have the same culture and language. That's a continent that make both of our territories look small on a globe (The most common map projection increase apparent area more the furter away from the equator something is.)
Distance causes misconceptions and cover up all nuances, both small and large. Not a single country or even city in the world can present a homogenous culture, even though the range of diversity tend to diminish with scale.
@@Blandge The sense comes from the fact that they're two completely different issues that are totally unrelated to each other and trying to conflate them is a ridiculous non-sequitur.
As a patriotic American I would say "God, no." The US is a failing democracy one bad day away from a literal by-the-book fascist coup. Gun violence is the third or fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of death for minors. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Our politics is broken. Our economic system is exploitative and designed to funnel all wealth to the very rich. Our healthcare system is an abomination. Our standard of living, lifespan, inequity, structural racism, and much more would be an embarrassment to any developed economy WHICH WE ARE NOT AND HAVE NOT BEEN FOR YEARS.
Maybe gardeners in london where gardens consists of lawns and flower beds don't use machettes but I've done garden work part time with a local gardner for a good 10 years, as well as working on my own garden and i can tell you yes gardeners do use machetes, it's the one tool ive used the most. Cutting back brambles, clearing brush, and thick weeds. Heck i just cleaned up my machete to do some gardening work this weekend. And consideri g that behind my garden is a patch of woodland that I'm also planning to do some work in (it's compleatly overgrown and isolated with the only access being via my back gate)
"Holes in the blade". Did I miss the explanation earlier? What's the rationale for a banning knives/machetes with holes in the blade?
Probably the same rational behind a lot of the gun restrictions in the US. They look scary.
I suspect it's an attempt to outlaw aesthetics that are found on certain knives they don't like.
Thank you for trying to keep us all vigilant to even more of our rapidly disappearing rights and cultural things being weaseled away from us all.
I am so glad that here in the United States, I live in a state where I am not questioned just for choosing to carry a knife, or just because I want to have a sword on my hip...just to carry it, because I *want* to. There's something to be said for that kind of freedom. "Because I like swords" should be reason enough to be seen carrying one, period.
On another note, it is super interesting to hear about UK politics. Again, coming from the US, I can relate to only having 2 parties. Those from the US that say "vote for someone else" must be out of touch from our own politics as well. We in the US have two PRIMARY parties, the Democrats, and the Republicans. It is incredibly difficult to get anyone that isn't one of these two parties in office, particularly in the presidency.
Also the US absolutely would welcome you--though I know you said there's reasons that would be off putting. I say the same thing whenever I consider immigration. Truth is, there's things about this country I live in I dislike, but when I look at what I dislike in other countries, there's nowhere else I can think I'd *want* to live, as there's always off-putting things when I do some research. I hope you don't come to a point where you NEED to move, but if you do, here's hoping you find a place that suits you!
The "functionally only two parties" problem is a result of the voting system.
A steel ruler would be considered a dangerous weapon under these new laws 🙄
So the logic of the UK government says that if more crimes are committed with spoons, you can't eat soup or curry in the UK anymore 🤪
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Please don't give them any ideas, for pity's sake... this bunch are idiot/twisted enough to actually do it. 😢
I'm doing a PhD in ecology and have to do data collection in extremely dense wetland environments, full of brambles and thorn bushes. I need to use a machete to keep paths open to travel from A to B and to clear areas in front of camera traps during the summer. People in conservation also have to use machetes and billhooks to manage scrub. How on earth can they ban a tool thousands of people need to use for their job?
Because politicians and civil servants all work in offices all day and have no idea what the majority of the public do.
In the walking dead Rick once bit out a guys throat. *Teeth are now banned in the UK, food will now only be served Puréed*
The thing that the government need to work on reducing the numbers of........
Are the social inequalities that produce the sources of, and reasons for, crime.
But of course they won't.
Not so many years ago, you could have easily moved to any commonwealth country. Canada and Australia and New Zealand are great places to live. Canada doesn't have much for knife and gun laws, "for a purpose dangerous to the public peace" is pretty much all the law needed. I think having a successful business that you are willing to locate to a different country pretty much puts you to the top of the list for immigration. Businesses, i guess! Frankly, objectively, what country wouldn't want you as an immigrant, you contribute to the economy, to education, you are an asset to the country.
WHAT?! Canada? The country where the Prime Minister recently asserted that Canadians do NOT have the right to use guns to defend themselves even if someone breaks into their home?
Quote: "“You can’t use a gun for self-protection in Canada. It’s not a right that you have.” - Justin Trudeau
I would say it's better than the UK granted since you can actually still buy guns there but this is not a government I would entrust my freedoms to. Of course Matt is obviously more of a melee weapon guy so maybe he'd fare better. Still, if it were me I wouldn't choose to live in a country where if an armed invader enters my home and threatens my family, I'm the one who's in trouble if I shoot him.
Please do an update to let us know how it turns out
I think it's less about making the banned item harder to get hold of, it's about having more they can pin on a criminal once they're caught
But it doesn't ban kitchen knives, and that's what all the little c@#ts are using.
No pointy sticks over 8 inches and no handling rocks over 400 grams under penalty of life imprisonment.
1) Take away the people's ability to defend themselves
2) ???
3) Profit.
but also
1) Invent means of "self-defense"
2) ??????????
3) Profit
??? = Put the lower class in the matrix to feed the AI
I have maybe an eighth of an acre in the US and regularly use pruning saws, hatchets, bill hooks, and D-handled spades to cut wood or weeds. Have not gotten competent with a scythe yet. As a kid on the farm we used corn knives that were basically kama with a wavy blade
Lowe's had a cheap version of a bill hooks called a briar ax or brush ax and I used that until I broke the handle too badly (poor design using 3 screws and insufficient metal collaring) but found the D-handled spade worked better on overly tall grass and weeds. It is surprising how much damage you can cause with the edge of a shovel even if completely dull.
I know a group of people, that is no more, which resorted to using hatched handles for their dedicated weapons; so they wouldn't get into trouble from the police controls they were often subjected to. (They were a highly criminal group of very not so nice people.)
But I aggree, the typical criminal doesn't care about what he is allowed to carry or not.
where i live its lots of machetes and bear spray, and you guessed it, the stores in the ghetto love to sell machetes and bear spray
@@beepboop204 Weird that they use bear spray instead of pepper spray. It’s designed for use on bears, and works on different principles to pepper spray and isn’t as, shall we say, “spicy” as what you’d want to use on a human. I’ve accidentally inhaled bear spray before, and all it did was make me cough a little for a few seconds.
@@QualityPen Here in Germany pepper spray is only allowed to be used against animals. Against humans you would need to use CS gas. If I remember correctly that is.
@@QualityPen you cant buy pepper spray for people, but you can buy it for dogs or bears. and mostly they go for the bear stuff. you can google "winnipeg bear spray attack" if you want to see how our spray is highly unpleasant
I've been a gardener for 40 years, I'm senior gardener on a 150 acre estate. I use machetes, billhooks, scythes and large knives.
We're moving away from petrol tools as much as possible.
Please fill in the consultation paper for the home office, from what I read online they are interested to see how much these tools are used. The more people who respond the better.
Being an American myself, I'll say that Americans telling people in the UK to vote for someone else is laughable. We only have two parties over here, as well. And neither get anything done. I apologize on behalf of some of my more ignorant, nationalistic countrymen. People who still think that voting the other party in is going to bring change still hang on to outdated narratives that don't work anymore. They can't see that our "democracy" is in steep decline and simply voting for the other party does nothing. Our problems are way past that. Whether we vote Republican (conservative) or Democrat (liberal), "The land of the free" isn't so free anymore. Our government needs an enema. Again, I apologize for these ignorant Americans that can't and don't want to see that the U.S. is ran by corporations now, almost exclusively. Elected officials couldn't make change if they wanted to. But, the vast majority of them wouldn't give up the bribes from lobbyists even if they could. Anyway, rant over. Love your channel!
If you cannot tell the difference between jurisdictions controlled by Republicans vs places controlled by Democrats, you are a fool.
@@Kyle-sr6jm Who said I can't tell a difference? Both sides have their M.O. but neither work well anymore. And all politicians are crooked these days.
That's rediculous for them to try and do. My heart goes out to all of you over there. Keep your heads up and don't give up fighting for the changes that you can get those exemptions.
what actually matters is being responsible in the ownership and use of weapons and tools
No. What matters is not breeding uncontrollable thugs who stab people without a second thought.
im over 50 (BA12) in my life i remember 3 murders that i knew people involved, 3,he was beaten to death with a fence post (both teens), 2, town drunk was killed in his own kitchen with a sours pan by a teen(they were friends) 1,my last maths teacher murdered her love rival (his wife) with an axe then hacked his new born baby's head off (i was 15) if you do any kind of combat training you soon learn that ANYTHING can be a weapon.
Welcome to Finland! No knife or sword bans here. 😁
Finland is based. Love from the US
Eläköön suomi!
How about firearms? Are they legal there? I know they are in home but can you carry?
@@cahallo5964 No you can't carry and you don't have to. Every gun needs a permit. Lots of rifles in Finland for hunting but not many hand guns.
Do you recall about 5 or 6 years ago when the Chief Constable of Cheshire (a female naturally) proposed that all knives, of any type including kitchen knives, should henceforth have a square end? Words fail in attempting a response.
These laws are the whole circus 🤡
Machetes are absolutely great for clearing laurels, brambles and other shrubs and bushes. Plenty of people who have city gardens use them too. In fact, I'm going to have to get a spare in case they ban them. Oddly enough, clearing shrubs would be one of the specialised circumstances where adding serrations to part of the blade would have a potential use. It's certainly not going to make the tool any more dangerous in a fight.
Whilst drug gangs are heavily involved in knife crime, they don't even generally fight over territory that much any more. If you want to buy drugs, you usually just phone someone or message them. It's usually kinda pointless standing on a corner selling drugs these days, as it makes you easy to arrest, rob or attack and puts most customers off, as it does the same to them. A lot of the stabbings are done as retribution for being robbed by another gang, or because they're afraid the other guy will stab them if they don't act first. A lot of it is just really, really nihilistic stuff done by teenagers to other teens because they don't have anything positive to live for and acts of violence at least allow them to gain status or notoriety among a violent peer group. I.e. all side effects of growing up surrounded by poverty and violence.
If you ban machettes, they gonna use hammers. If people want to hurt others, they will always find a way. The problem is not with the tools, but with the people who use them, but it's easier to ban certain items than fix social problems.
A tightly diagonally rolled up Financial Times becomes an incredibly sharp, strong stabbing spear. Let’s ban broadsheets!
These arguments sound so familiar……
I live in Prague. I take a sabre to show kids in my history classes. I go to cut plastic bottles to a park in the city centre every now and then. I carry a bowie knife when I go camping in the woods. I carry a revolver when I go to a range. And the rate of crime involving weapons is really very low here. You're very welcome in Prague 😁
Because you guys actually fight crimes and criminals, so people feel safe. In the UK they have such a high crime rate and their government is so incompetent, that they resort to banning random objects to not be accused of doing nothing about it.
Hey, we cannot apply logic without overthrowing the governments.
We have this problem in the US,somebody goes and uses a gun to cause all kinds of havoc and first thing: "we must ban guns!" and I always say it's not the gun you have to worry about it's the fool holding it,you can blame an object and take them away but in the end it's the intent of the person that is going to cause trouble and taking objects away ain't going to help.
Come to America! We’re not that bad.
Our news makes it look scarier than it is. It is better than many options.
Many European countries that allow swords will require them to be modified or dulled, normally with Antiques being the only exception
You literally have a murder rate an order of magnitude higher than the UK.
some places are basically just as bad, and if we don't continue fighting then we'll change from being citizens to subjects
22:52 i emigrated to the US in 2009, and it was the best thing i ever did. I absolutely love it here. It's really sad watching from afar as the UK declines.
This is why we need a formal constitution and 2nd amendment in the UK. Well we do sort of, it's in the Bill of Rights 1688/1689 and Declaration of Rights 1689.
That only protects Protestants though.
Anyone who wants to respond to the consultation period but is not sure of everything they want to add, I would also like as many people as possible to point out that big knives are for different purposes than small knives. I am talking from a bushcraft stand point now I often use a large knife for chopping paired with a folding saw instead of the more traditional small knife with hatchet combination. Any one who does respond I don't think pointing out that big knives are useful for different things to small knives will hurt our case.
There was a guy in Oregon or Washington arrested for having a hunting knife attached to his belt while he was in public. He left the house that morning intending on going fishing but ended up helping his brother work on a roof. If he had gone fishing he would not have been arrested. Since "roofing" is not an authorized activity for having the knife the arrest held.
I'm afraid most of the world is a sinking ship. It's just a matter of which particular ship (whatever issue concerns you) is sinking slower.
At least here in Texas, he could have been wearing a literal *sword* on his belt and it would still have been perfectly legal.
Citation needed.
I am sorry for him, but Law everywhere expects people to be careful and police themselves. Drivers have to be responsible for their vehicles and their handling of them and so knife (or other weapon owner/users) have to be careful, too. In the UK the laws on everyday carry are very strict, but we can carry tools that fall outside the normal limits if we have a legitimate purpose - a cook having a cook's knife, a fisherman or hunter having a suitable tool for those tasks. If the hunting knife was of some use in roofing, then he would have a legitimate defence in the UK [- I know a roofer who has a large fixed-blade knife for that purpose] and would be safe on site. If he left the site, then he would be expected to remove the knife and pack it away securely. The same would apply to a knife that was not needed for the task at hand. This seems like common sense, after all the hunter wouldn't absent-mindedly take a shotgun or hunting rifle into the local bank or post office, would he? One danger of unrestricted carry laws for knives or other objects is the possibility you might get used to carrying it and forget it is there. I nearly got arrested (in the UK) because I bought an antique knife on holiday and forgot it was in my everyday carry bag and went into a court (US courthouse) and my bag got scanned. Thankfully, the knife was still as wrapped by the shopkeeper and I had the receipt. I apologised profusely and handed over the knife and got it back at the end of the day. That was over 30 years ago and I doubt if I would have got away so lightly nowadays. But it would have been my own fault.
Actually, you are telling something which did not happen, an untruth. Oregon Law is very, VERY permissive when it comes to non-concealed weapons. You can carry nunchaku, a sword, brass knuckles, and a blackjack as long as they are visible. Knives wouldn't even move the dial.
So please don't say things that didn't happen.
@@randlebrowne2048 As you can in Oregon
Last time I used my machetes was at an Airsoft Site in a conifer woodland site during Build Days building defensive positions and cutting back branches. Chainsaws were also used.
Much as I agree that the proposed ban is ill-conceived and largely pointless, the argument that criminals will just use something else is weak. Making weapons less accessible does impact crime.
My brother-in-law once wanted to go after someone with a hammer. I took it off him, wouldn't let him go out with it. He said "I'll just get another weapon on the way." I said, "go ahead and do that." He went out... and didn't assault anyone. Adding that simple barrier stopped him. He could have picked up a rock on route, but he didn't. He went out and sulked, calmed down and came home. And he absolutely would have taken a hammer to someone; he had before and since.
Take a gun off someone, they don't just go to a knife instead. If they've got a weapon to hand in anger, they use it. If they have to look for a weapon, they calm down in that time and generally don't. Violence is impulsive, adding steps between thought and deed massively reduces actual incidents.
Core points, this ban is daft and isn't really addressing a problem. But the notion that people would just use a different weapon is a deeply flawed argument popularized by the US gun lobby.
Is your brother a criminal or just someone who had lost his temper? And the point is that a machete is an agricultural tool.
Hey Matt!
Watching these as a water sports/ outdoor activity instructor worries me. As a legal requirement for our job we carry utility knives. Mine meets all three criteria of this new law. It has holes in the blade for opening boat bungs (a fairly standard feature on water sport/ sailing knives). It has a serrated section for cutting through rope and then a straight edge section (also for cutting rope/ nets/ fishing line).
That knife has quite literally saved lives, from underwater entrapments where people were stuck on ropes or under sails, to birds and animals caught in fishing lines. If this law comes through the way it is, we'll have to do an instructor knife amnesty and spend quite a lot of money replacing all of our staffs kit. (mine also doubles as a whistle with one built into the handle which is super useful and I don't want to give that feature up!). Are we supposed to carry three different knives and various tools to do all the different jobs we need them to do now?
Utter madness that wont stop the problem!
Matt, thank you for expressing yourself on this. It’s refreshing to hear someone explain their perspective in calm, objective manner.
The proposed machete ban is eerily similar to what’s going on in the States with firearms. Sadly, the reasons for the violence here are probably as well understood by your government as they are by mine.
Banning an object isn’t the same as preventing its use in a crime.
Good luck sir!
I'm interested if anyone could give a reason for holes in the blade being extra dangerous.
"If you say that you know nothing of UK Politics"
Matt as an American they clearly aren't watching our politics either
Both parties are rotten to the core. The only fighting chance you have of electing some one that actually cares to do the job is at the state and local level. Federal politics is just a dog and pony show.
Born Czech and naturalised Frenchman, I can recommend both countries. In France, choose wisely your department though (Brittany or Normandy are really quite good).
Czech Republic is nice almost everywhere
Don't bother considering Canada. We have become North Korea West. Our PM is banning everything. He is so insane I wouldn't be surprised if he would try to ban kitchen knives. Czech Republic sound interesting - good gun laws and the home of Adam Celadin, world knife throwing champion. Some other Eastern European nations? Best wishes, Matt.
Was my understanding that sword laws are way more relaxed there? yOu can still walk into a store and buy. In comparison to British laws it seems night and day.
In absence of cognitive issues, inequality causes more knife attacks than knives. I've never been attacked by my knives, they just kind of sit in the kitchen waiting to attack their true enemy... food stuffs. However, I was stabbed once by a person who later went to prison for, let's just say he really loved kids. No, he didn't stab me with a knife, he stabbed me with a nine inch cement nail wrapped in a scrap of leather. I have a nice little defensive scar on my right wrist, but it's much better than the amateur lobotomy he had planned. So, long story short, he accidently gave me the nail. I tried to give it back, but other than a really close look that I gave him, right under his eye, he didn't want it back. So I tossed it and reminded him why he needed it in the first place. He decided that diplomacy was best.
🤯 just watched a comment criticizing censorship get censored.
Time, place, and manner restrictions on carry frequently expand in scope until they end up as nearly complete possession bans for the majority of people. Reading the history of English firearm restrictions, it was the same ratcheting up of restrictions based on public fear and demands to "do something", not actual crime rates (or the resulting lack of statistical effect of those restrictions in reducing them). Chief Inspector Colin Greenwood's "Firearms Control: A Study of Armed Crime and Firearms Control in England and Wales" (1972) is enlightening.
Thank you for the insights. Good to hear intelligent points in both videos. If you decide to immigrate I recommend my home of Canada. The higher income of America without the crime. At the same time you have access to the USA market. Also a commonwealth country so you will recognize the government system (for the good and bad). We have a points system to immigrate (eg speak English have a degree etc) and we are looking for people.
Canada is becoming a WEF CCP style dystopia.
How many kitchen knives in my house? There are 2 knife blocks on different countertops & 4 drawers that have at least 6 or 8 knives. There is also a good sized tool box with our catering kit with a bunch of different knives. There are 3 chefs in this house!
Oh, no...!
Mat, you will indeed be welcome here in the Czech republic with all your swords and other pointy things. And you could take Tod along, so the duties for his knives are not so bloody expensive 😂
I just had an idea for a reality TV show... an apartment shared by Todd, Matt and Jeorg Sprav. No need for writers the comedy will write itself 😀
My father knew a criminal, he sharpened coins to hold between fingers in a fight, for slashing, then you just trow them away before the police arrives. That was a long time ago...with bigger sized coins. You can make a mace with large bolts...Or just have them on a string.
I feel like the argument, "If it's banned, they'll have a hard time getting them" only works for things that are specifically designed to kill and are hard or inconvenient to make. Because yes, banning or heavily restricting guns would significantly lower the amount of crime involving them, and Japan is a perfect example of this. It's newsworthy when someone commits a gun crime in Japan.
With knives, you can make something more dangerous than a lot of knives very quickly. There's a world of difference between making your own firearm, making a firearm that's actually good at being a firearm, and making something sharp and/or pointy. Anyone with some power tools can make a really good knife out of a wrench, and someone with some wood and a little X-Acto blade can make a spike, but guns are another world.
The argument works well for guns, but definitely less so for knives.