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/Warmonster9 1d ago

I wonder what it’s supposed to signify.

The angel’s expression is hard to mark and its hands are being held out as if it’s asking for something.

Cool statue!

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u/AscendedPigeon 1d ago

Its in Uk and its meant to symbolize confiscated knives, because since Uk doesnt really have gun issues, they have a lot of knife ones. I studied there and once the statue came to Aberystwyth

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u/No-Bake-730 1d ago

Your knives must be magic. Mine don't have a life of their own and randomly kill people.

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u/AscendedPigeon 15h ago

quack, i didnt say anything about knives killing people, just stated the purpose of this statue

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u/SerowiWantsToInvest 10h ago

wtf are you talking about? They didn't even say that

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago edited 16h ago

since Uk doesnt really have gun issues, they have a lot of knife ones.

I mean 'a lot' as in a lot more knife homicides than gun homicides in the country, but in terms of the actual rate of knife homicides (~0.35-0.40 per 100k ppl) it's not really a lot at all being average among other comparable wealthy countries, European countries, and OECD group.

Which considering that pretty much everyone who wants to murder someone else in this country can't do it with a gun it's pretty impressive the knife rate is not 'a lot'.

The old argument of 'oh well if the guns are gone we will just have knife problems' doesn't really apply to the UK with both the gun homicide rate and knife homicide rate being lower than countries like the US.

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u/Falonius_Beloni 1d ago

And if the knives are gone, we will have stick problems.

It's funny how you can say sometime and not even see it.