Yesterday, at a dancing school in Southport, UK, a teenage boy with a “large butcher knife” precipitously attacked a group of seven preadolescent girls.
Two girls died at the scene. A third died a short time later at a local hospital. The others were all critically injured and are still hospitalized.
Unarmed adults tried to intervene, but they were also stabbed and seriously injured.
Police and ambulances arrived, eventually.
The single perpetrator was located and arrested. His name and all information on his background are “being withheld.”
We’re immediately assured that this was “not a terrorist incident,” but that’s what they always say, and many are unconvinced!
Comment:
One must jump through interminable hoops in the UK in order to so much as purchase a common kitchen knife.
UK authorities are now excitedly expressing concern about “ghost knives!”
Curious that endless volumes of these fussy “regulations” imposed upon UK citizens, as well as all the tax-payer-funded, heavily-armed bodyguards who surround UK politicians everywhere they go;
All of that did nothing to protect these innocent little girls!
And now, as grieving families contend with their loss, cloistered politicians are busy dreaming-up yet more suffocating Stalinesk “rules” they can heap-upon a weary public, all of which will continue to be contemptuously ignored by criminals and terrorists (as they were yesterday)
There is no “safety,” when citizens are prevented, by law, from taking any effective unilateral action to protect themselves and their own children.
Obviously, naive, unenforceable “knife control” doesn’t work in the UK, any more than “gun control,” works here!
/John
