Alphecca: Meanwhile in Knife-Free Scotland. . .

March 17, 2007

Meanwhile in Knife-Free Scotland. . .

After 1997's almost complete ban of handguns in England, Wales and Scotland (after a school massacre in Dunblane, Scotland), there is the belief a decade later that there are more handguns on the streets.

Get outta town!

Now, The Scotsman newspaper reports on the Safer Scotland amnesty project. Last summer 13,000 knives were turned over to authorities, no questions asked. Afterward, knife-carry offenses increased.

A government spokesman warned not to make so much of those statistics. "We also stressed when we launched the amnesty that it alone would not deal with the issue."

Looks like the amnesty didn't deal with it at all.

The only "bans" that work are ones where you ban the violent criminals. You do that by building more jails and then locking them up for ever. Everything else is just posturing.

Posted by Jeff Soyer at March 17, 2007 09:41 AM

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March 17, 2007

Meanwhile in Knife-Free Scotland. . .

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