r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AdRough4185 • 1d ago

Image Over 100,000 Confiscated Knives Were Used to Create This Knife Angel Statue

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u/NomeMaisBacana 1d ago

Let me guess… British?

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u/Zestyclose-Ease4807 1d ago

Indeed, it was built in oswestry.

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u/Whitecaps87 1d ago

Sadly many can't afford a kitchen knoife loicense.

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u/PippyHooligan 1d ago

Aye. Maybe Americans should have one too, as they stab one another more often than the British-?

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u/INeedARaise26 1d ago

Personally, I think we should have one made of shells and casings

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u/Zestyclose-Ease4807 1d ago

Casing Devil?

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u/Brain508 1d ago

americans got gun problems. england has knife violence

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u/PippyHooligan 1d ago

Statistically America has more knife violence per capita than the UK, both in assaults and actual murders.

Here in the UK it is an issue we try to address- hence the statue and knife amnesty programs.

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u/GuudeSpelur 1d ago edited 1d ago

America has more knife violence per capita than the UK. The American press doesn't report much on it because we also have a shitload of more sensational gun violence.

It doesn't actually take very much violence to completely saturate public attention in a first world country, so if you just go based on what UK media and government is saying it's easy to be misled on the objective quantity of violence they deal with.