In a bid to tackle what President Emmanuel Macron described as “a senseless surge of violence,” the French government will issue a decree “within 15 days” banning the sale of knives to minors.
In a bid to tackle what President Emmanuel Macron described as “a senseless surge of violence,” the French government will issue a decree “within 15 days” banning the sale of knives to minors.
That will be rough for people like me who moved out on my own at 17. Also, a million things could be used as a weapon. Scissors? Screw driver (among many other tools)? This doesn’t seem like a practical way of handling the problem.
I also moved out at seventeen! And I did live without a kitchen knife for six months or so, too. I guess for me at seventeen it didn’t matter so much.
Ignorant question: Isn’t the knife making everything worse at 17 or any other age?
I don’t think a knife is going to make your cooking worse.
@5714 @Drusas Obvioously but older people don’t go to school. However, this whole blaming the weapon thing has gone too far. Need to start just putting the perpetrators to death and end this.
I assume most perpetrators of mass violence at schools don’t fear death such that a death penalty would have any effect. I’d even argue that many perpetrators act out of suicidal ideation.