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Toughen UK knife laws, raise the age to buy knives over 3 inches to 21 years old

Submitted on Monday 5th March 2018

Published on Friday 9th March 2018

Current status: Closed

Closed: Sunday 9th September 2018

Signatures: 32

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Crime ~ UK

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Toughen UK knife laws, raise the age to buy knives over 3 inches to 21 years old

Petition Details

Knife crime is an epidemic in the UK, surely raising the age to buy knives would shrink the culture our country has normalised. It would mean teenagers can no longer buy knives to use as weapons. Knife crime was 6x more likely to occur in 2017 than gun crime. I wonder why?

Additional Information

London has a huge issue with knife and gang related crime, minimising the amount of people able to buy knives must surely impact this. Nearly 13000 recorded incidents of knife crime in Just London last year, with less knives on the street in the wrong hands surely this statistic would also plummet.


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