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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

MASTER SWORD = 22 cm or 8.6 inches including handle and holster.
We also have very strict knife regulation here (Denmark), but I think if it is a first time offense, he would have gotten off with a fine, since it's obviously a toy.

Seems like a perfect place for role playing games!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwickshire#/media/File:Kenilworth_Castle_(cropped).jpg

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the aim of the regulation?

Does it cover dense urban areas only?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most youths who are involved in crime carry a knife for protection. This means that if the police want to arrest one of them, for whatever reason, they can because they will likely find a knife on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see. Is this pure fear behind it or is there some evidence that the law is beneficial?

But yeah, another good pretext for harassing the young and/or poors.

Reminds of war on drugs until police started doing to the all "children" in the US and that attitude changed pretty quick.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

We (Denmark) have 0.9 homicides per 100,000 capita, UK has 1.1 USA has 6.3.
Of course there are other factors, but overall regulation definitely and very evidently helps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's at best a correlation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's what all these articles missed, this isn't a first offense, the man is a known burglar, did 4 years previously