Knife Control

In the wake of London somehow eclipsing New York in murders recently, mayor Sadiq Khan is moving to implement knife control.  Gun control is already very strict in the UK so now knives must be controlled.  England has already gone through the gun control debate and the gun owners lost.  Now that all the guns are gone, the knives are next.  Once the knives are gone, will there be fork control?  Cricket bat control?  Whatever the case, those who oppose gun control can point to the case of England where 'weapon-du-jour control' is just the incremental disarmament of the populace.  Once 'assault rifles' are banned, the controllers will move to ban shotguns, then to handguns, and eventually to knives.

 

A disarmed populace may be less violent (London appears to be an exception) but is also much less of a threat to the government, which funds the police and military.  Government always prefers docile and defenseless subjects and will always say it is for your own good.