UK Cops Revel In Removing Deadly Spoon, Sporting Gear From Mean Streets

By Tom Knighton

Yui Mok/PA via AP

The United Kingdom is a joke these days.

The country’s also a cautionary tale about the foibles of gun control. It basically banned guns and guess what happened? Go on, guess!

If you pointed out that crime continued to grow, so much so that now they’re trying to restrict knives, then you win the prize. It hasn’t done a lot of good, either. After all, knives are an essential tool for things like cooking. Everyone has knives, and everyone needs knives.

That doesn’t stop British police from bragging about taking knives off the streets. However, sometimes those brags become hilarious, like this one from Tuesday.

Yesterday we conducted weapons sweeps,dealt with a person injured from a van reversing on them, reported a burglary and collected all these from @scope charity shop who diligently didn’t want them to get into the wrong hands & disposed of correctly & safely pic.twitter.com/GNfxZd6iGd

— Regents Park Police (@MPSRegentsPark) May 14, 2019

Let’s examine the deadly arsenal the charity shop handed over to police, who then bragged about removing from the mean streets.

First, of course, there are actual knives. I mean, these are kitchen knives, of course. You know, knives people …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms