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CMV: UK knife laws should be completely removed

In the UK the knife laws state that in order to have a knife outside without good reason, the knife has to be a foldable (3 inch or less) blade. So if say you have a machete on you out in public, if you told a policeman that you were going to use it for clearing some bushes at your friend's house, that would be a suitable excuse. 

Knives including zombie knives and butterfly knives with no real purpose are outright banned.

The idea for knife laws is to reduce the number of stabbings, however, it clearly hasn't worked as the UK knife epidemic hasn't gotten much better even after all these bans. 

Most people who attack/kill other people (with knifes) are planned; you don't bump into someone on the street then yield out a knife. So say somebody was planning on killing another person who they didn't like, what would be the difference between using a zombie knife and a kitchen knife?

If you stab the person multiple times in the neck, its not like in either situation the person is going to make it out alive. 

So in my opinion, the UK should either remove the ban on all knives. Unless you want to ban every single type of knife (including a chefs knife).
gpt
Laws restricting weapons don’t necessarily result in a drop in related crimes - they find the “organic” rate of crime. That means that even with restrictions on the carrying of knives, like you’ve pointed out, people will still stab people. That’s because they are determined to do so, these are the people who will commit the crime no matter the restriction. 

However, if you loosen restrictions, what you might see is more incidental crime. Say, someone who wouldn’t normally break the law and so hasn’t carried a knife in the past, start to carry a knife because it’s legal - they may end up in a situation where they do discharge their knife and end up killing someone, something that wouldn’t have happened if they weren’t carrying the knife in the first place. 

It’s lamentable that knife crime continues to rise but it’s fair to say that loosening restrictions would add inorganic instances of knife crime to the already growing epidemic.