New Posts For Thread: Knife crime - US solution?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solutionGiven that the American gun lobby advocate everyone carrying a gun as a solution to gun crime, would they advocate everyone in UK should carry a knife as a solution to knife crime.Why haven't the government put a tax on knives? More tax seems to be their strategy for everything else they don't like.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556065453#556065453Why haven't the government put a tax on knives? More tax seems to be their strategy for everything else they don't like.Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:50:16 -0600Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights permits the use of extreme violence to defend yourself resulting in death if you truly believe your life is threatened. It has to be true as I heard it on the James O' Lefty show on LBC today.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556064243#556064243Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights permits the use of extreme violence to defend yourself resulting in death if you truly believe your life is threatened. It has to be true as I heard it on the James O' Lefty show on LBC today.Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:53:50 -0600With the crime figures spiralling out of control, surely homeowners should be allowed to keep a gun on their premises to be used against burglars?I have a Shillelagh and a meat clever under the bed. It's the Yank in me, better to be tried by 12 thanhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556064155#556064155With the crime figures spiralling out of control, surely homeowners should be allowed to keep a gun on their premises to be used against burglars?I have a Shillelagh and a meat clever under the bed. It's the Yank in me, better to be tried by 12 thanMon, 26 Nov 2018 14:42:44 -0600With the crime figures spiralling out of control, surely homeowners should be allowed to keep a gun on their premises to be used against burglars?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556063301#556063301With the crime figures spiralling out of control, surely homeowners should be allowed to keep a gun on their premises to be used against burglars?Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:52:46 -0600Well it obviously never dun you no armhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556063255#556063255Well it obviously never dun you no armMon, 26 Nov 2018 12:46:20 -0600For all that may be a valid comment, I would assert that recreation, in the days of which we speak, was much more healthy,and satisfying than being a slave to a computer screen!https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556063189#556063189For all that may be a valid comment, I would assert that recreation, in the days of which we speak, was much more healthy,and satisfying than being a slave to a computer screen!Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:36:32 -0600This place becomes more like Last of the Summer Wine every day.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556062935#556062935This place becomes more like Last of the Summer Wine every day.Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:01:19 -0600Nobody ever got stabbed, or even cut by accident, as I remember!I've still got the scare on my knee playing the splits with a knife where it slipped out of my mates hand when he was throwing it.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556062503#556062503Nobody ever got stabbed, or even cut by accident, as I remember!I've still got the scare on my knee playing the splits with a knife where it slipped out of my mates hand when he was throwing it.Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:36:31 -0600We all (boys) had sheath knives, on our belts, in our younger days.Nobody ever got stabbed, or even cut by accident, as I remember!We had the whole arsenal including catapults, air guns, bows and arrows and again, the only one I can remember who gothttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556062465#556062465We all (boys) had sheath knives, on our belts, in our younger days.Nobody ever got stabbed, or even cut by accident, as I remember!We had the whole arsenal including catapults, air guns, bows and arrows and again, the only one I can remember who gotMon, 26 Nov 2018 10:30:09 -0600gingerhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31468751/knife-crime---us-solution?post_id=556062413#556062413gingerMon, 26 Nov 2018 10:15:30 -0600