Submitted on Tuesday 15th February 2022
Rejected on Monday 21st February 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Revise the legislation pertaining to knife crime and carrying blades.
The legislation pertaining to knife crime and carrying blades should be revised. At the moment, carrying a knife as a first-time offender carries a 6 month minimum term. The legislation has to be reviewed and altered in order to combat the spike in knife crime.
Anyone found carrying a knife for the first time should be sentenced to at least 12 months in prison, and anyone with previous offences should be sentenced to a minimum 36 months prison sentence.
I urge the UK government to make carrying a weapon and committing knife crime a more serious offence in order to dissuade at-risk teenagers from endangering their own and others' lives.
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