Covering for Their Own Failures, UK Officials Blame Violent Crime on Access to Knives

Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille

“The United Kingdom is a case study in what a country looks like when instead of targeting criminals or addressing the incentives for crime, the powers that be obsessively focus on tools criminals might use and tighten the screws on an entire society, innocent people included. That’s how the country degenerated into a surveillance state that prevents its citizens from carrying the means of self-defense and punishes them for saying anything the authorities consider provocative. After a murderous attack by a violent, radicalized assailant, politicians have decided the problem is access to knives.” (01/27/25)

https://reason.com/2025/01/27/covering-for-their-own-failures-u-k-officials-blame-violent-crime-on-access-to-knives/