“Common sense knife control.” Usually, if you hear that phrase, it’s a facetious remark designed to take the air out of the gun control debate. We all know that gun control laws will be ignored by criminals and, even if it gets harder for them to get a gun, there will still be millions of other weapons out there. Take away the guns and eventually you’ll need to take away the knives, cars, baseball bats, etc.
Well, welcome to London. There, the murder rate is skyrocketing thanks to rampant stabbings. According to the London times “knife crime” is so widespread that the murder rate has surpassed that of New York for the first time in modern history.