"surrenderyourknife.co.uk."

So you take away guns, believing that guns cause crime, and that if there were no guns, there would be no crime.

That, my friends, is the Bottom Line as far as the gun-control crowd is concerned.  They don't believe folks like you and me should be trusted with evil, nasty, cruel and heartless guns.  Especially those awful, scary black ones, that look so much like "assault weapons," but aren't.  And the only way to make your neighbors safe from you, and you safe from them and yourself, is to disarm you.

Yep, that's about it.  Our Founding Fathers must have been drunk the day they all agreed to let ordinary, flawed, uneducated and unworthy humans to carry around "weapons of war," they think.  The same ones, by the way, that they used to fight and win the Revolutionary War.  And "they," those we have elected to make decisions on our mutual behalf, intend to correct that oversight.

That little plan has been in place in Europe for decades.  Guns, handguns in particular, have been virtually outlawed in the European Union countries since the 1960's.  Germany, France, England, Spain, Italy and a bunch of other European countries have disarmed their populace.  Has it stopped shootings?  Yes, for the most part, unless there's a hardened criminal desirous of acquiring a gun and using it against innocents in the neighborhood.  

And God knows, there are plenty of them.  Everywhere.  Always.

(NOTE:  The Netherlands and Switzerland and Israel differ in their approach to gun control.  They don't welcome it.  Everyone must serve two years in the military, and are then sent home with an actual military "assault weapon," which they must keep loaded and available at all times.  These citizens are considered a part of the "armed militia."  These are some of the safest countries in the entire world.  Hello, Chicago!  Paying attention?

Think back to the concert hall shooting in Paris a couple of years back.  The Muslim jihadist murdering terrorist thug that killed 50 and wounded hundreds more used a fully-automatic machine gun which has been outlawed in France since WWII.  Outlawed, but still used.  It seems Paris has the same disease that's infecting Chicago...  

And speaking of the Windy City, the first warm day of the year there was just welcomed with 15 shootings and 3 dead.  They're averaging a shooting every 12 hours!  All that in the City with the most restrictive gun laws in America.

So England attempts to modify human behavior by removing a tool some use to eradicate unwanted friends and neighbors.  And when that happens, what to do those desirous of fomenting mayhem do?  They find another tool.  Lemme' say that again.  If you make it hard for somebody to kill somebody else with a gun, they'll use a knife.  Or a rolling pin or a Louisville Slugger.  And that brings us to today's lesson, children.  

There's been a rash of knifings in England over the past few years.  That's especially true in London, where the significant Muslim minority there busies itself stabbing unsuspecting pedestrians all hither and yon.  As in, LOTS of them!  

So, the new mayor of London, one Mr. Kahn, yes, a Muslim, declared Londonistan a "Knife Free Zone" last year.  That followed a 52% increase in knife stabbings over the previous year (they're averaging more than 41 per day!).  He's actually stated that he sees no reason why anyone should need a knife.  So, if he doesn't want them, I guess nobody can have them either.  Except for those who wish to do do harm, in which case they'll find a way.  They always have...

Even famous shouty Brit chef Gordon Ramsey pleaded with Parliament last year, begging to be permitted to keep cooking knives longer than 4".  They said no.

Classic Progressive fascism at work for all to see.  The U.K. doesn't have a 2nd Amendment.  Too bad.

So Kahn has set up a series of boxes labeled, "Knife Banks" all over London.  People were invited to discard their now-illegal knives in one of the many boxes supplied for that purpose under their new "Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife!"(Covered under "surrenderyourknife.co.uk." if you'd like to check it out).  But a day later, March 13th, a single day later, the bin in Westro-super-Mare was broken into and the knives were taken.  Hmmm.

The Bobbies were surprised.  Mr. Kahn was surprised.  But I can't figure out why they'd be surprised when you put a box of knives, now illegal contraband, on the side of the street, unguarded, assuming that a band of criminals won't up and snatch it.  And then they up and snatched it...  

This story was brought to you by the same folks who think stripping law-abiding citizens of their right to self-protection by seizing firearms will put an end to murder and mayhem.  

Maybe they'll choose to put up a bunch of "gun free zone" signs next.