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- USA vs UK Knife laws - SHOCKING comparison
This video draws comparisons between knife laws in the United States and the United Kingdom. The UK is known to have very strict knife laws (which I discuss in greater detail in my other videos, linked below) and yet knife crime is still rising swiftly and significantly. The United States has, by direct comparison, much less strict laws when it comes to ownership, carry, and concealment, of various types of knives. Obvious restrictions, such as carrying knives or other weapons apply in each of the States that I researched, but concealment and carry of various knives in many States is simply not restricted - or have fairly generous restrictions in terms of type and length.
There is an endless and perhaps unsolvable question as to whether stricter laws will directly reduce the crime statistics that it seeks to prevent, and it ultimately comes down to the individual.
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With some of your average kitchen knives being extremely sharp and almost a foot long in some instances, no amount of legislation is going to prevent someone with ill intent laying their hands on one and using it unlawfully. There really is no amount of legislation that will completely eradicate knife crime.
"The founding fathers never considered fully automatic assault knives!"
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There is a phrase in the US. Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
Believe it or not there is a very well thought out logic behind why knives, guns and other items for self-defense are allowed to be carried in the US. The reasoning goes like this. The bad guys aren't going to follow the law, so they will carry whatever, regardless of legislation. Therefore you have to even the playing field for good people.
The law in the UK is definitely biased towards criminals. No decent and sensible person will ever forgive the courts for jailing Tony Martin, who shot a burglar in his own isolated farm house. There were two of them who had been terrorizing him. He should have got a medal, not a jail sentence.
Ahhh, I'm so glad I live in Czech Republic, knives aren't considered a weapon, I can have and carry any knife I want , but not on a demonstration or to a courthouse. Most people carry a knife for practical reasons, I do too, in my car, a 4inch lockblade. But there's not many stabbings or knife crime here.
if your going to carry a knife to attack someone you already dont care about the law
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Blame the fool, not the tool.
Free up all bladed implements and normal people will carry normal useful knives as tools, but hammer the imbeciles who decide that a Knife/spear/kitchen knife etc is a weapon.
Any item in hand is potentially an offensive or defensive weapon so treat knives etc as the tool that they are until the intent of the holder makes it a weapon.
In my humble.
As someone that has lived in the USA and the UK, the UK is a little more free IMO. In West Virginia in the USA, you are allowed to use as many fireworks as you wanted whenever you wanted, the building codes are not enforced and you can carry as many guns and knives on you as you want. On the other hand, the UK allows you the right to forage, the right to carry alcohol in public, and better protections in the event of homelessness or poverty. Overall, I like the UK a little better, but things may change.
We are losing more of our freedoms everyday here in the UK. New laws are being passed all the time. You won't be able to give someone a dirty look soon without getting a fine.
@@shaunwild8797 If that happens, I will leave. I've done it before.
@@owendavies8227 If I had the money I'd join you. This country is going down the toilet fast.
@@shaunwild8797 Moving countries set me back around £10,000 total for two people, so it's expensive for sure. Where would you move?
@@owendavies8227 I wouldn't mind giving Canada a try or Norway.
I recall watching PD Cam in which a motorist was searched and found to have a concealed gun which is legal in that particular state (although he should have declared it). Oddly he also had a knuckle duster which he was arrested for.
Of course none of this is relevant or matters to those who have no intention of abiding by the law- the very people whose actions these laws are intended to prevent. I doubt whether any drug dealing, knife or gun carrying gang member has the slightest interest in what the law says or what he is or is not 'allowed' to do.
Or he gets a child on a pedal bike to ride rear by with the knife/gun, for when he wants to use it.
The problem though in UK is areas where kids carry knives for 'self defence', have a kids argument, pull out knives and someone ends up dead
Useful and informative. I live in the state of Arizona, USA, and as you said, "Pretty much anything goes". We can publicly carry all kinds of knives, swords, etc. and in addition adults can carry handguns, openly or concealed with no permit, training, or common sense. In spite of this, our rate of crime involving knives and other bladed weapons is knives is probably lower than in many areas of the UK ...as we much prefer to shoot each other. Neither scare me much compared to the way people drive here. Forget about the knives and guns and watch out for the cars!
I have lived in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland and have spent a lot of time in the UK. To me, Swiss law makes the most sense because at least it's consistent. Prohibited weapons include daggers with symmetrical blades, bali-songs, throwing knives, out-the-front knives, and assisted openers of any kind (automatic, spring assisted, etc.). Everything else is legal, including fixed blades and various types of locking blades (back locks, liner locks, axis locks, flippers, etc.), with no length restrictions. However, you do have to be carrying it for a legal purpose, which does not include self-defense. What matters is not the knife itself but what the person does with it. Carrying a one-handed opening knife with a locking blade while hiking in the mountains would not raise suspicion but taking the same knife into a bar probably would. Police have a lot of discretion to confiscate knives if they don't think you have a legitimate reason to be carrying it, but at least you won't get a criminal conviction because of some obscure technical feature of your knife. Canadian is the worst because the law doesn't change but bureaucratic interpretation of it does, constantly.
You never know what's legal and what's not.
USA: Hey, is that a machete? "Yes"
Understandable, have a nice day.
UK: oi is that a butter knife?!
"Yes"
Do you have a loicense for that sir
except in NY "you are going down boy "
More like " Is that a machete?" Yes " what is that gonna do if he pulls a Forty Five" idk but if you need me to chop down a tree then I got you
Iowa passed its constitutional carry law recently last year, which allows the carrying of a handgun for someone 21 or over without a license.
Side affect of this being you can now also carry a switchblade/knife with 5"+ blade without a ccw now, which is pretty sweet.
It's a shame there' just not a law for common sense. For bushcrafting I've always got a knife on me of some description. I guess the only one saving grace is our serving friend said if you've got justifiable means for carrying such as camping then there's no problem. One question however, if you are on private ground (private woodland) would the law still count?
I occasionally take my parang on hikes through the forest if I know it might be rough going. Usually in my backpack rather than on my belt. My friends tell me that is fine, however, do not go wandering around the streets or stores with it.
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Interesting comparison Daniel. Would like to see a video on the differences in UK sentencing compared to the USA. Do you agree with the US sentences, plea bargaining, 3 strikes rule, the 100 years plus life etc. Would be great to get your take on it.
we have plea bargaining here as well, there was a 3 strikes laws but it was abolished for some stupid reason except for 3rd strike house breaking which on the third strike becomes an indictable only charge
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Never understood the size limitations of a knife every artery and a few major organs are less than 3" below the surface
It is purely practical as many folding pocket knives were no more than that length as that is a practical length for a tool.
I'd like to know the _types_ of knife that have been seized, especially given the two fairly recent cases where police touted the effectiveness of stop & search by showing what they had recovered: 2x 'sharp' pencils and one protractor.
And no, I'm sadly not joking.
Here in the USA I can carry whatever I want basically wherever I want to with the exception of schools in most States and government facilities. Yes there are certain states where you can carry a firearm on school property. As a matter of fact there are a couple private schools in my city where the teachers carry to protect the students in case of an active shooter. Though in my state I am not required to have a carry permit I got one anyways so that I can carry almost anywhere in the United States with the exception of a few liberal states. The city I live in has an extremely high percentage of people who carry firearms on their person daily, it also has an extremely low violent crime rate. The cities that have the highest crime rates also have the strictest laws on carrying weapons. Knives are generally considered tools, however our constitution protects our right to carry a weapon as the right to self-defense is very important. If a person decides that they are going to hurt people they are going to do it, it doesn't matter how many laws you have. The people of the UK let their government become authoritarian trash. Hopefully one day you will regrow your testicles.
I think knife crime is worse here because you can carry a gun legally in the US. Why carry round an inefficient method of killing, which you may get arrested for, when you can carry a cold machine that can kill with a lot less risk to yourself. Thank God we don't have guns for everyone here!
So Crocodile Dundee was breaking the law ??!!!
I always wondered how he got that through the airport, let alone that he could wander NYC streets with it lol.
No because 90% of stabbing are done with kitchen knifes and they will never be banned so the more they ban the less difference it makes you can literally go into Lidl and buy a 10 inch knife for 1:99£
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I do wonder if a license system would clarify things. I own and often use a few knives outside of the UK EDC rules, some for work, some for bushcraft and some for fishing, I am happy to pay for the privilege of ownership/use of these, my use of each knife in each situation, and the way i transport them to a "place of use" is well within the scope of "a good reason", easily discussed on application for a license (as shotguns are for example-or were when i owned them)
Then if you are caught without a license, and carrying a knife outside of EDC regulations, you are severely punished....
Surely using a knife as a weapon (as opposed to a tool) is attempted murder? (in practical terms not legal ones)
I would be happy to apply for a licence to carry a bigger knife. I already have to apply for an air weapon certificate and, despite all the moaning about it, it wasn't hard to get. I would far prefer we be able to carry bigger knives for work etc and not have to worry, than the current arrangements. That would allow legit folk to go about their business without needing to worry, but neds wouldn't get a licence. But, it'll never happen as government in the UK doesn't want to encourage anyone to carry knives.
@@StrathpefferJunction so you want more government restrictions instread of demanding the government get back in its place get freedoms back
@@geezerp1982 I've no idea where you live, but either you don't live in the UK or you do but don't really have a good grasp of political currents here. You could jump up and down and spit the dummy as much as you like, but government in the UK - irrespective of which party is running the show - is not going to roll back knife laws. There is no appetite for it anywhere. Politicians don't want it, civic society doesn't want it and the general public don't want it. So, you can either bleat about how unjust it is and make no progress at all, or you can work with the system and the political currents and get as much good out of the system as you can. Governments here will never just allow large knives to be carried by anyone and they will never just repeal the various band blades. The only way we might get more flexibility is by licencing. And most folk have nothing to worry about with that, because most folk would pass background checks. And those that don't are precisely the people we don't want to be carrying machetes around in public anyway.
Criminals don't tend to worry about licences for anything so although a small benefit is to be had by some, it will largely serve to make money and government jobs and will in no way affect criminals intentions or behaviour.
What will be will be, we only bear things until we cannot.
@@OldNavajoTricks You're American, aren't you? Sure, criminals will always get weapons, just as they will always access drugs, or counterfeit money and passports, or anything else they want. That doesn't mean that licencing things cannot help to reduce crime and also make it harder for criminals to get things. The vast majority of criminals in the UK do not carry guns because we have tight gun laws. That's a good thing. It means that only a tiny minority of people have to worry about armed home invasion, our kids don't have to be taught about active shooter situations, let alone actually get shot at school. Yes, there are still crimes involving weapons and knife crime is an issue in some areas, but these violent crimes are kept relatively low because availability of many serious weapons is strictly limited. If you lifted the lid on all of these things and allowed it to be a free for all, like you have in the USA, violent crime rates here would rocket up very quickly indeed. And we also have to remember that our bar for violent crime recording is lower here anyway (precisely because it's less common), so there are things we class as serious violent crime that isn't categorised the same in the USA, hence why direct comparisons don't work well (because they overplay the issue in the UK vs the USA). For most people in most parts of the UK, the UK is a far safer country than the USA, and for the majority of people here, that's a good thing and we accept stricter controls over guns and knifes because it allows us to live in and enjoy the freedom of a much safer country. We don't live in fear in the way so many in the USA clearly do. We didn't run en masse to buy guns and knives just because of covid and a few high profile race incidents, because people here don't feel they need to. I have no problem whatsoever with the USA doing what it wants to do - that's why we're all different countries with different systems, to match different priorities within each country - but it does get a bit tiresome hearing the same ignorant American comments over and over. You do you, the rest of the developed world will do what works best for us. Live and let live.
There’s also a difference between open carry and concealed carry. In Delaware you can open carry anything (including guns) without a permit but in PA you don’t need a permit to conceal a blade. We have the constitution and we carry guns. If you carry a gun these knife laws are basically null and void.
I spend a lot of time in south texas. I open carry a knife there, usually my Busse Sar6.
Guitar stand as a katana holder... nice.
Knife law needs to change in the UK. When I was young (and that wasn't too long ago) at 5 years old onwards I always carried a pocket knife to the point adults would ask to borrow it if I was at a barbecue on the beach or anything.
Never did I stab anybody.
As for the definition of gravity knives, it's a really poor grey area legal definition as I have a few safety knives that I can just flick open with the right flick of my wrist.
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Personally I would feel safer carrying a knife or other defensive weapon than not. Why, as a law abiding person, can’t I protect myself against miscreants?
Knives are next to useless as self defence weapons as they have no range. Nobody is even going to blink at you in the wrong tone if you carry a Dane Axe on the other hand.
@@Svyp3r do you have a dog?
Have you seen an angry dog?
Have you ever been bit?
Why do you suppose that I would want to stab someone?
If I was a great boxer would I feel safer?
Did I not say “other” defensive weapon?
Why should wanting to protect myself make me criminal. It’s a nonsense.
@@Svyp3r and on reading your ridiculous post.
1 Someone pulls a knife on you ...it is deadly force!
2 why pull a knife on someone that doesn’t have one or us trying to kill you?
3 why
@@Svyp3r Indeed, think of the situations where you might be able to pull one out. Firstly if you are attacked with a knife, likelihood is you will be stabbed before you know it unless the attacker is using it for bluff, Secondly you might pull out the knife to threaten a potential attacker if you feel under threat yourself, you have not defended yourself, only upped the ante and put yourself clearly on the wrong side if you go on to use it. A knife is only going to visibly deter an attacker if they know you have one, and for that it would have to be something big, worn on your bel, practically a short sword. Stick to an umbrella, even a rolled, folding umbrella is more use than a knife for self defence.
@@Svyp3r if these are your reasons it says more about you rather than me
People armed themselves, and unfortunately kill others, with what they can get hold of easily and is generally legal to own or buy. So, in the UK, the kitchen knife, which is a tool, is repurposed as a weapon. Ban all knives in the UK, you will see a rise of crimes committed with hammers, screwdrivers, or just sticks. Conversely, if you were taking truncheons or knuckle dusters off the prohibited item list, hence making them easier to obtain, I bet you'd see a lot more cases of truncheon or knuckle duster crimes. In the USA, firearms are largely easier to get than in the UK so knives wouldn't be a first choice of weapon (simply because you are more likely to face an opponent armed with a gun!) so it's hardly surprising there is little need to control knives there.
I have a question I have a manual job where I use a knife all the time, I have a fixed blade cheap Mora knife that I clip to my belt I keep it sharp because it's not a lot of use otherwise. I have forgotten I'm wearing it a number of times and gone to the supermarket to get lunch with it on my belt, when I realise I usually unclip it and put it in the hammer pocket of my work trousers . My question is am I making the situation worse by essentially concealing it or am I doing the right thing? I'm fairly confident that my job and work clothes should make it clear I have a good reason to be carrying it but I really don't want to get arrested, I would however totally understand getting it confiscated.
Funny isn't it that flick-knives (and others similar) were originally intended for fishermen who needed to keep from falling overboard with their other hand whilst cutting nets. I think (but I'm not sure) that a similar story is true for the Filipino Balisong (butterfly knife).
There are many types of one-handed opening knives for climbers, fishermen, riggers and so on or multitools with one handed opening blades for tradesmen etc. which are not flick-knives, these have a stud on the blade near the handle joint, or a kind of projection on the back of the blade at that point, and these are UK legal as long as they're not locking. For example the Spyderco UKPK.
I think in another video they said a butterfly knife was "obviously" for harming other human beings. There's such abuse of the english language.
@@simonh6371 and yet only a very foolish person would use a non-locking knife in those circumstances.
@@stuffandnonsense8528 Actually yes and my comment was incorrect anyway. A couple of general use one handed openers are non-locking like the Spyderco UKPK. But actual climbers knives (e.g. Pezl), boat knives and tradesmen's knives tend to be locking and there's no problem with having / carrying them in the UK since you have ''valid reason'' just as a carpenter can work with a hammer, but I can't walk down the road holding one. It's just for EDC that we can't carry locking knives as we don't have ''valid reason'' i.e. a specific reason, whereas I don't have to have a specific reason to walk down the street with a SAK in my pocket.
I remember hearing a statistic that you are more likely to get stabbed if you carry a knife. It's terrible that certain sections of society carry knives or feel they need to in order to protect themselves
Correlation does not equal causation, my friend. I suspect it's really a case that the sort of person who carries a knife is more likely to get stabbed, rather than any real bearing of carrying the knife itself.
@@TheJackB987 "The sort of person"? I've carried a pocket knife of one type or another since I was in the Cub Scouts fifty years ago. Does that make me "the sort of person" you speak of?
@@sputumtube No, I'm sure there are upstanding knife carriers. Most people carrying knives are not carrying pocket knives and are breaking the law. These are the sorts who are more likely to get stabbed. You, as an upstanding person are no more likely to get stabbed than normal because carrying a knife isn't the actual causation, it is merely a correlation.
@@TheJackB987 From a scientific perspective that is true, however from a logical viewpoint it applies mostly when there is no possible mechanism of connection that can be demonstrated. The New Testament is very wise when it comes to the phrase, "those that live by the sword perish by the sword" I live in an area where there is a lot of knife crime, and many of the worst incidents arise from escalation. I can understand why youths carry knives, because they fear aggression, but they need to break that association. It isn't really the knife that has to do with it, but the culture surrounding that and the real fear. Kids who carry knives are just kids, they are not yet fully mature or educated, but too many of them do not live long enough to mature. Too many potential victims end up as perpetrators and it is complex. No young kid is going to threaten me with a knife because I am not part of the gangsta culture, I have pensioner immunity as it were, but you have to realise that if you engage in a culture where you are prepared to and actually do participate in various acts of street violence then you are disproportionately at risk from that. A while ago I was confronted by a facebook post from someone who claimed to know me from the past and his memory of me was not one I would like to repeat, I was no blooming violet as they say. Thank goodness I have gone on to responsible maturity.
@@TheJackB987 I know there are scumbags carrying kitchen knives but do you really think there are more of them out on the streets than regular guys like myself or Paul Greenwood who commented here carrying Swiss Army knives? I certainly hope not.
What about carrying a Leathernan or Sog multi tool? They have razor sharp locking blades and saws, but still serve a variety of important day to day tasks.
If knife law in the UK is Bonkers, it is bonkers and then some in the USA. And why does the right to bear arms include automatic weapons but not a sword? Incidentally with reference to knives in school, when did that actually become illegal in the UK, I can remember taking a penknife to school to sharpen pencils, not to mention taking other knives to trade in the playground as boys were wont to do.
If I'm not mistaken in my recollection, it happened in the mid to late 90s ...
As a response to the Dunblane massacre, as the guy had several massive blades on him!
no it doesnt ! full auto weapons are restricted by the federal government ! you need a class 3 ticket with a sign off from the local chief of police and only if the state that you live in allows ownership of full auto weapons . with a class 3 ticket you can only buy full auto guns made before 1986 . semi auto firearms are legal with a federal background check in ALL 50 STATES . semi auto firearms are legal in europe and the UK
That's extremely incorrect on automatics when researching U.S. gun. laws. It is illegal to purchase new automatics after the 1986 law was enacted but you can own an automatic before 1986s, but it's insanely expensive and is a pain going through bureaucratic hurdles to even obtain one. Semi-automatics are legal but you need to go through ffl on a background check and dealing with state's gun laws.
New yorks blade length is only applied to new york city. The state its self has no blade length limitations
It's weird that there are so many knife laws in the English speaking world. The name Saxons means knife-people. Having a knife was the badge of true citizenship, and anyone who couldn't be trusted with a knife wasn't just set free upon the public.
Yet, in modern times people have a way of finding any knife, even the ones made especially pedestrian for some utilitarian task, and mythologizing/vilifying it until someone clueless do-gooder comes along and tries to regulate it. Gravity knives, box cutters, butterfly knives, karambits, T-handle knives, and most bowies are designed to just be handy little tools that are easy and convenient to use, often with safety andpublic perception in mind. But the uninformed soccer moms of the world would see all of these as dangerous and unusual, and they want them all to be illegal everywhere.
And yet, most people drive. And most cars have tire changing kits which include a lug wrench of some kind. And either the car or the wrench would make a far more effective weapon than most knives. Any old household hammer, shovel, kitchen knife, or screw driver could be weaponized exactly the same as a general purpose pocket knife.
What would you do in a situation we're a police officer refuses to listen when you explain that your knife falls within the parameters of UK legal carry, non locking and under 3 inch blade length.
I find it to be an interesting topic, as someone who collects knives but also uses them for my daily work schedule, fishing and camping.
Would you take the loss even if you have paid a significant amount for the blade. Some of my knives cost upwards of £200 and having them taken away for no valid reason is what scares me the most. Some police officers do not feel the laws also apply to them and will basically just confiscate what you have on you.
Can't wait...
Open carry of Seax now legal for kiltwearer?
:-p
In the USA the general rule on knives are. You don't bring a knife to a gunfight
The legitimate UK knife collector has been seriously penalised in recent years...I know of many collectors, who pay anything between £500 - £3000 for a handmade knife...It is now a gamble whether or not HMCE or the courier companies own customs departments will allow 100% legal knives into the country. Either the customs officers are poorly trained, and don't know what is, or isn't legal to import, or this is being purposely executed, to put off private importation of such items from over the Atlantic...Some states in the USA and Canada's postal service, will not even allow the knives to be shipped to the UK anymore, I am guessing through ignorance. An individual wont spend many hundreds of pounds on a knife, only to carry it on the streets to use as a weapon...It is mostly cheap kitchen or utility knives, that are used in UK knife crime, so regulating or prohibiting certain types of knives, is not productive, and lackadaisical at best.
I suppose the USA doesn't have the same knife problems that some of our major cities have when you can wave a knife all you want but you risk someone shooting you whereas here you are the king of the street.
We all must know that the thug who is likely to carry and use a knife isn't concerned about the law but when young people feel the need to carry a knife for self protection that is where it really becomes a societal problem and why they feel afraid which leads us into multiple discussions about where society is going.
Folk who possess knives with the intent of using them for crime (I know that carrying one for self-defence is a crime but I'm ignoring that for this example) are most likely criminals. Criminals, by definition do not comply with the law so any knife laws to these people are irrelevant. The only real impact such laws have in my opinion is increasing the difficulty obtaining them. But when all said and done, a sharp kitchen knife is just as dangerous as any other kind and they're easy to just buy over the counter. Based on my own beliefs about this I'd forward the hypothesis that knife legislation has very little impact on knife related crime and that the laws are more for public image; an attempt to appease people rather than for deterrent.
I wouldn't use a knife too inflict harm on another person. Or carry a knife. Because I have no need too carry one. Unless iam going camping and it may come in handy. Yet I can't help but think,that a person that's going too use a knife too harm or kill someone, isn't going too be bothered,or listen too any law. As murder isn't exactly legal in the first place. So the law isn't there too prevent knife crime. But it is there too punish that person.
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As complex as our law system is - seems rather sensible compared to the US.... on this issue anyway.
no its not !
But it's full of highly subjective and vague language like "good reason".
All of this is bollocks. Knives are a prerequisite to human life. Knives being used for damaging purposes is a societal problem. When I was I kid we all carried knives to play in the woods, build dens etc. These were generally bowie knives or penknives. No-one got stabbed. That would get you put in a young offenders' institute these days.
Natural law supercedes Statute so if the blade is sheathed it's nobodies blooming business what u have.
Similar to my viewpoint, animal law although superceded by mans law,
Will always stand.
As wiser men than me once said belligerently over a pint of best bitter
The right to fight, fuck and feed.
@@OldNavajoTricks It is all about standing is you stand as the legal entity you are that- first name and sir name. Natural law just name no sir name.
@@terenceherming1838 was confused for a sec there lol, surname,
But yes, labels aside, 'I am me, my self, a living being'
Humans often forget that we are animals :-)
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if the knife is in the other person they are in possession hence they are committing the crime not you . i did kyoshin in the late 70s and early 80s all i got was arthritis be careful you dont over do it
Interesting this was 2 weeks ago because if 2 days ago we could discuss whether it is acceptable to run around Hyde Park with machetes
That would breach Public Order Act, be classed as an offensive weapon (as they are wielding it) and the bladed article laws because they are carrying a fixed blade without reasonable excuse. Oddly the CPS tend to prosecute under "bladed article" even when it is clearly being used as an offensive weapon.
@@nlwilson4892 Yet very little seemed to come of this incident which I would class as pretty high up on the f**ked up scale.
@@misfit2022 Was that because they didn't actually manage to catch the culprits though? Sometimes, with a chaotic situation like that, witnesses can be so confused that the police find it hard to know who did what.
@@nlwilson4892 Possibly but poorly covered by the media. If it wasn’t for YT ers you may not even known it had happened
@misfit Hyde Park is fine. Its Jekyll Park where you can't carry.
Why do you keep saying it's obvious that knives cannot be legally carried in schools?
If I routinely carried a small pocket or keyring knife and one day had to visit a school on business why is it 'obvious' I'd be committing an offence?
Wouldn't it also be obvious to have the same law in the school as just outside the school?
Is he not talking about pupils?
@@vanpallandt5799 Just looked it up... it applies to anyone.
@UCQWdzCZLXyeU--BdQwBOV3Q well i would think if knives cant be carried in schools then the janitor, maintenance men and electricians must have problems
@@anonimushbosh Statutory defences
A person who could prove that they had good reason or authority for carrying a knife, (for example,
an officer cadet) would have a general defence under the Offensive Weapons Act 1996. In addition,
there are a number of other special exceptions which permit the carrying of knives.
• For use at work (for example, knives needed in school kitchens)
• For educational purposes (for example, tools needed for Design and Technology classes)
@@vanpallandt5799 Well yeah there'll be exclusions obviously. Also cutlery. I didn't read that far but it was easy to Google
The problem with these laws: they just move the target to improvised weapons. For instance, a HH sharpened pencil is lethal as a push dagger. With the rear up against the palm inserted between the index and forefinger in a clenched fist. Without telegraph, sent downstairs to the rib cage can drop a man instantly.
A 28,000V stun gun can easily be fabricated from an old television or computer monitor. Nitroglycerin can be made from battery acid, fertiliser and tallow... the list goes on ad nauseam.
The problem is cretins in the House of Commons. Mass immigration into this country to the point where the indiginous become a minority; what did anybody think was going to happen?
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I still have my Fairbairn-Sykes dagger. Best weapon to carry and perfectly legal is on the end of your wrist and legs, called hands and feet.
running doesnt always save you ! the criminal might be just as fast as you , going to a full sprint without a warm up could give you a cramp, if you are not in shape you will prob wont run very far not enough to out run the criminal and now you are too weak to put up any fight against the criminal
@@geezerp1982 who said anything about running? Your weapons are your hands and feet.
He who runs, dies tired.
He who stands no matter what,
Dies well.
@@OldNavajoTricks I want to hear about the guy who didn't die!
@@OutOfNamesToChoose He stood, and prevailed :-D
What was the most important thing I learned from this video? "A good lawyer should be able to able to argue both sides of the argument". Which is why I am considered so indecisive.
Dude, stop it with the clickbait title! Not cool
The most dangerous kind of knife cannot be restricted from sale in the UK. It is the long, thin, pointed kitchen knife optimized for cutting meat!
No they aren’t illegal to sell (most knifes aren’t) but you must have a valid reason to carry them on the street
@@tobeytransport2802 You mean criminals carry them!
@@dirkbruere yes of course they do (well technically anyone who carries one is a criminal). But I mean actual criminals, of course they carry them and they have to hope they don’t get caught
No useful information for UK just blablabla mainly about USA why then say UK & USA just blablabla 👎
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SHOCKING COMPARISON!!!
don't cheapen yourself with that click bait shit. Poor show.
Wow you're a Barista! I love coffee ☕
But joking aside, I think a quick explanation of what a barrister is might help for overseas viewers 👍
What about a video about gun rights in the czech republic that proves that legal gun ownership and also the right to carry a concealed firearm in the czech republic does not increase gun crime ?
Fuck the law 👍