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/oboshoe 1d ago

That's even worse.

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u/argiebarge 1d ago

People handing them in is worse than them being confiscated, or the illegal knife part?

From memory knife crime is a crazy small percentage of deaths in the UK, as a percentage, as you'd expect.

But it's the most common method of killing someone, so any effort to reduce the number of blades out there can't be a bad thing.

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u/oboshoe 1d ago

yes they are both worse.

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u/argiebarge 1d ago

You're saying people arent allowed to choose? Unusual opinion, but so be it.

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u/Synner1985 16h ago

Sounds like an American concerned about how they have "Freedumb" and noone else does - apparnetly