Submitted on Friday 29th March 2019
Rejected on Monday 8th April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Life sentence to anyone caught carrying a knife in public.
Knife crime in the UK has become a daily occurrence and lives are being lost. Action must be taken to rid the streets of knives for good. A life sentence isn't too harsh for being armed to kill.
Between New Year's Eve and the 23 of February 2018, 15 people had been stabbed to death in London, five of which were teenagers.
In the year ending March 2018, there were around 40,100 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales.
In 2017/18 there were 268 deaths currently recorded using a sharp instrument, including knives and broken bottles, an increase from the 216 recorded in 2016/17.
An estimated 40,000 knife crimes will be reported this year. This has got to stop.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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