What Happens When Guns Are Outlawed

[AFTiger 282]

Who knew?

Kitchen knives most common stabbing weapon as police reveal haul of 200 weapons seized in blitz

By Daily Mail Reporter

The most common knife used in teenage stabbings is taken from the kitchen, Sir Ian Blair has said.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner unveiled some of the deadly weapons seized during a two-week blitz on knife-carrying criminals at New Scotland Yard.

Sir Ian revealed that the majority of those weapons discovered on the streets of the capital were ordinary domestic knives.

Kit Malthouse, Ian Blair and Cindy Butts with recently seized knives at New Scotland Yard

He said more than 4,000 operations have been undertaken by his officers using arch metal detectors and handheld scanners.

As a result, more than 200 people have been arrested and almost 200 weapons have been seized.

Speaking hours after this year's teenage death toll in London reached 15, Sir Ian said youth violence has reached an unacceptable level.

Gruesome ad campaign showing bloody stab victims launched by Government to curb knife crime

He said: "The Met has stepped up its operations. With the support of the community, we have put search arches in place and in the last two weeks carried out more than 4,000 stop and search operations with more than 200 arrests and nearly 200 weapons seized.

"You are now more likely to be stopped and searched. If you are stopped and searched, you will be arrested if you are carrying a knife. If you are arrested you are likely to be prosecuted.

"To parents it is tough-love time. In addition to conversations about drink, drugs and relationships there are now conversations about knives.

200 knives have been seized by the police during Operation Blunt 2

"The most common knife involved in these deaths is a knife from the kitchen and we must have conversations about knife crime with teenagers."

In a report to the Metropolitan Police Authority today, Sir Ian said Operation Blunt, the name given to the anti-knife blitz, is targeting both where weapons are used and where those who use them live.

Sir Ian said officers have been deployed on 185 priority schools and colleges and each of the 59 units for excluded pupils across London. He revealed that the campaign will cost the Met up to £1million this year.

He said: "It is of critical importance that young people understand that carrying a knife is not cool and that choosing to carry a knife puts a young person at high risk of killing someone else, of being injured themselves and of going to prison.

"Ultimately, the aim is to encourage not only those whom young people respect and listen to to champion this approach, but also to find champions among young people themselves."

Operation Blunt is under way in every one of the 32 London boroughs, but extra resources are being sent to the 10 worst-hit areas including Lambeth, Southwark and Croydon.

Kit Malthouse, London deputy mayor responsible for crime, said he was "extremely pleased" with the police action.

He admitted increased stop-and-search operations could be controversial but he said officers had behaved "sensitively".

He said: "Some people out there oppose this type of operation but they come with no other type of solution.

"It is incumbent on us to recognise that every one of these knives recovered represents a tragedy averted and a life saved."

Kitchen knives are the most common weapons seized under the initiative

Mr Malthouse said that with every teenage death "a little bit of London dies too".

Cindy Butts, deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said Londoners must stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the police.

She said: "The black community supports Operation Blunt. What these communities want is increased stop and search.

"What they do not want is for police officers to go out on fishing expeditions where they cast their nets wide and see what they get back."

Ms Butts said the operation targeted places where knives were most likely to be carried and used. Officers deployed with metal detector arches and hand-held scanners targeted 10 London boroughs, including Southwark, Lambeth and Croydon.

She said: "It's important to emphasise that when the police get involved it is already too late."

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[autigeremt 6,654]

Seems like another "one up" for those of us who support and defend the right to bear arms.

It's not the gun that kills, it's the person behind the trigger. Same as the case with any weapon.

[Tigermike 3,041]

Your title:

"What Happens When Guns Are Outlawed,"

"Freedom is only for those who have the guts to defend it"

Something everyone should watch and think about:

[Auburn85 432]

sure ban guns, criminals will just go around the law, while the law abiding citizens get screwed everytime.

the criminals don't and won't care about the laws.

What is a barrel shroud?

If you're going to regulate something, know what it is!

[CCTAU 3,336]

sure ban guns, criminals will just go around the law, while the law abiding citizens get screwed everytime.

the criminals don't and won't care about the laws.

What is a barrel shroud?

If you're going to regulate something, know what it is!

"Who gives a damn. It's part of a gun. And we hate guns."

Every civilized country in the world that has banned guns is now leading the civilized world in violent crime. The people there realize that they have been duped. Yet we still have idiots who claim that this country would be safer if we banned guns.

Is this like the "socialism has never worked because we have never tried it" thought process?

[autiger4life 3]

Every civilized country in the world that has banned guns is now leading the civilized world in violent crime.

Really? I was pretty sure the US led the world in violent crimes. Do you have a link?

Here is murder by country:http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

Here is assault: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_ass-crime-assaults (US at number 1)

Murder with firearm: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_...arms-per-capita

Where the statistics came from: http://www.nationmaster.com/about_us.php

So where is it that I am missing where these countries with strict gun laws have terrible crime rates.

[CCTAU 3,336]

Every civilized country in the world that has banned guns is now leading the civilized world in violent crime.

Really? I was pretty sure the US led the world in violent crimes. Do you have a link?

Here is murder by country:http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

Here is assault: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_ass-crime-assaults (US at number 1)

Murder with firearm: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_...arms-per-capita

Where the statistics came from: http://www.nationmaster.com/about_us.php

So where is it that I am missing where these countries with strict gun laws have terrible crime rates.

I should have said leading the world in increase in violent crime since stealing the guns from its people. Semantics.

Here. Try this.

But if you want to be stupid and argue for gun control. Go ahead.

[autiger4life 3]

But if you want to be stupid and argue for gun control. Go ahead.

Nope, I'm very pro-guns. Just asking for a link.

[CCTAU 3,336]

But if you want to be stupid and argue for gun control. Go ahead.

Nope, I'm very pro-guns. Just asking for a link.

Your links did not really state rates, just overall numbers. In terms of population, we have it pretty good here. Not to mention the number of loonies turned away because a citizen is armed. It's easy to lead the world in most things when you are one of the largest free societies on the planet.