I am the Owner of "The Crime Superboard", which can be found here.
I can be E Mailed, at thegodsplinter@btinternet.com
This blog is here to house my thoughts about crime in the UK/World and about self-defence and Self Defence Implements (SDIs).
Knives, For Example's Sake
01: KNIVES ARE NOT THE ENEMY!
02: KNIVES CARRIED BY RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE ENEMY!
03: KNIFE CARRIERS INTENDING TO USE THEM TO HARM PEOPLE WITHOUT PROVOCATION OR JUST CAUSE...THEY ARE OUR ENEMIES!
I carried knives for over 25 years - until the Law on knives changed, in fact! Not once in that quarter of a century did I ever pull one of those knives on anybody in anger or without their weapon/s being shown to me, first.
I am one reason to believe that the Government's policy on ALL KNIVES being disallowed for ALL PEOPLE in the country, is hopelessly wrong!
There are responsible carriers of knives and there are irresponsible carriers of knives!
Our self defence baby has been knee-jerkily thrown
out with the rushing bath-water of "offensive weapons" hysteria!
Many times, during those 25 years, I had to pull a knife and sternly indicate my readiness to use it in self-defence, if attacked by them, because somebody else tried to attack me with one of their own or with another type of weapon.
On no occasion did I have to go further and the assailants walked away, or ran away - swearing, yes, but they went away and that was the idea of my knife! Once it was finished with, it went back in my pocket.
The deterrent effect of weapons is almost as powerful as the effect of attacks using them! I wasn't carrying that knife to execute unprovoked injury: it was there to give me...
A GREATER THAN ZERO CHANCE OF SURVIVING THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF SOMEBODY ELSE'S KNIFE!
And, it did that job - brilliantly - all the way through that quarter of a century! It was my old faithful "sidearm" and it was almost a part of my pocket's daily life!
I didn't cruise the streets for people to attack with it!
I didn't amble around my home town hunting for people to stab, to see what would happen!
I didn't use the presence of that knife in my pocket to make myself appear "big" or "tough"!
I carried it because of that knife's ability to make me able to go my way and not feel as vulnerable as the stupid Government's current over-response to the ownership of knives and their responsible use leaves me (and, probably, YOU) feeling, now!
It's better to have a Self Defence Implement and not need it than it is to need a Self Defence Implement and not have it!
Make no mistake...I have NO REGRETS!
Once the others about to attack me walked away, my own knife was closed and put back in my pocket, and I continued on my way, happy at the deterrent effect it had had!
Given that NONE of those potential attackers ever followed me and that I never had trouble from them, again, my own purpose in carrying a blade...was fulfilled!
I COULD STILL BE THAT SAFE AND THAT CALM AND CONFIDENT, HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THIS GOVERNMENT'S OBSESSION WITH BANNING EVERY METALLIC ITEM EVER MENTIONED IN THE MEDIA!
It's only a matter of time before they ban...
...ballpens,
...cigarette lighters,
...metal combs,
...trouser belt buckles,
...Coca Cola can ring-pulls, and...
...front door keys!
Any fool who is ready to carry a knife and abuse it in a criminal manner is not going to be discouraged by Laws. In fact, the minds of most of those irresponsible animals are almost certainly not even stroked against by the imagined "Spectre" of "The Law" - they just take their knives along with them, take out their knives and USE THEM!
THUGS LAUGH AT THE KNIFE LAWS!
That's what thugs do just before breaking Laws!
The Lawmakers' hysteria about banning knives is becoming typically British.
The Nuclear Deterrent Effect Works
The wish to keep people safer is commendable, but it's not good to do it by blanket-banning in a country that subscribes to the commendable notion that, if the British have nuclear weapons, other countries will be seriously unlikely to attack them.
That existence of their weapons shows that possession of offensive weapons is, as if we need to wonder, the only good deterrent to being attacked by those offensive weapons belonging to others!
The same (and safe) principle is true in British streets!
While are responsible people, going about our daily business in a harmless way, the possession of a Self Defence Implement that we are prepared to brandish at sensibly chosen times can be made to work on the same basis.
The deterrent effect would work for us and against anybody less responsible or prepared to use their Self Defence Implements in an offensive manner.
They'll find ways of getting them and will rejoice in finding ways of using them (most often, not in self-defence.)
- Self Defence Implement prohibition stops more good folk with good intentions carrying them than it stops bad people with bad intentions carrying them!
- Self Defence Implement prohibition makes us weaker - not stronger!
Our Government is betraying us in removing our right to bear these Self Defence Implements!
Metal Detectors In Schools
And, having metal detectors in schools will become a joke (albeit a somewhat desirable one for the staff of the schools!) Most knife assaults committed by school students are committed out of school hours - especially on the way from, rather than to, school!
So, even allowing for the fact that school teachers and students will be safer for the use of those school-based metal detectors, there will be almost no improvement to the knife crime numbers during hours not involving school times.
The kids with knives will just get a good sized selection of them and hide/bury them around the town - including somewhere not far from the school, so that the knives are back in their possession, on their way home, after school!
So, if you want metal detectors to somehow be another element in the Governmental hysterics about bladed weapons, you'd better start getting Civil Servants out there with full-sized metal detectors, in parks and all other grassy areas, desperately trying to locate where kids are hiding their knives during school hours!
And, what will the Authorities do when kids start fashioning their hacking and stabbing weapons from wood? Will the Government put a fortune into research and development, for wood detectors?
Motives Behind Carrying Knives
CAN ANYBODY BE SO STUPID AS TO BELIEVE THAT EVERY KNIFE CARRIER IS CARRYING THE ITEM IN ORDER TO FIND SOMEBODY TO ASSAULT, WITHOUT A REASON?
I actually believe some kids when they say that they carry knives purely as a self-defence measure against kids already known, by them, to be carrying them and who are inclined to use them offensively, instead of defensively.
As mentioned, above, they've learned the lesson of successful deterrence, already subscribed to, for decades, by our Government in it's retention of nuclear weapons as a means of warning other countries not to dare to consider use of their own, on us!
To disbelieve kids when they tell us that they're carrying knives for their own self-defence is to be saying that every kid that carries a knife is carrying it in order to attack somebody in an unprovoked manner! The deaths, if that were the case, would be too many to even report in the Media if they were all looking for somebody to attack with their knives.
Some of them are telling the truth and are not the thugs that many would judge them to be!
I know what those kids are talking about!
That's how / why I began carrying knives, well over 30 years ago!
They got me out of attacks!
They never once got me into one - not even once!
Without knives, I would almost certainly be dead, now, and I'd've been killed by an irresponsible user of knives who DIDN'T EVEN CARE WHAT BRITISH LAW SAID about them having that knife with them, that day!
Our Government, when asked about our rights to self-defend, tells us that "the State will protect...". They are almost NEVER there when we are being attacked, and WE (AND OUR ASSAILANTS) ARE! They have miserably failed to protect us, time after time - IT'S UP TO US, NOW!
Given that clear failure, it's time we were allowed to own, and bear, Self Defence Implements!
BUT, IT'S HIGHLY LIKELY THAT KNIVES ARE NOT WHAT WE REQUIRE, IN ORDER TO BE (AND REMAIN) SAFE ON BRITISH STREETS!
We should be allowed (no guns, no blades, no chemical, no gas and no electrics) licensed SDIs...Self Defence Implements!
We should just band together, nationwide, and TAKE BACK our rights to carry Self Defence Implements, instead of waiting to be "allowed" to have them with us.
TheGodSplynter!
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"Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex" -
(The welfare of the people is the ultimate Law!)
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)