The idea of knife control was, up until recently, pretty much a quip used by Second Amendment supporters to point out that it’s not the weapon that’s responsible for the crime but rather the criminal. And then, London’s Sadiq Khan stepped in.
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“No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law,” Khan wrote on Twitter earlier this month.
No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law. https://t.co/XILUvIFLOW
— Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) April 8, 2018
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Alas, however, the knife contagion has come to the United States, and in a most surprising place — Texas.
According to KXAN, Lori Brown — who lost her son in a knife attack — has met with “policy advisers in Gov. Greg Abbott’s office about her concerns over Texas knife laws and security on college campuses.”