Time to ban knives

Imagine you read a story that went like this:

NEW YORK (AP) - The tabloids are calling them the "Tarantino murders."

The two young Frenchmen, promising research students at one of America’s top universities, had been bound and shot repeatedly in the head, neck and torso before their bodies were doused in fuel and set alight. A senior FBI detective said their wounds were the worst he had ever seen.

Even for a city assailed almost daily by reports of gun crime, this was shocking—a seemingly burst of brutality reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film. No one has been charged in the June 29 deaths that horrified people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean prompted some French journalists to depict New York as a city of mean streets, rampant crime and "no-go" areas.

What would be the reaction of the MSM and its allies in the anti-gun movement? It would be yet another call to ban guns of course.

But what if the story goes something like this instead:

LONDON (AP) - The tabloids are calling them the "Tarantino murders."

The two young Frenchmen, promising research students at one of Britain's top universities, had been bound and stabbed repeatedly in the head, neck and torso before their bodies were doused in fuel and set alight. A senior Scotland Yard detective said their wounds were the worst he had ever seen.

Even for a city assailed almost daily by reports of knife crime, this was shocking—a seemingly burst of brutality reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film. No one has been charged in the June 29 deaths that horrified people on both sides of the English Channel, and prompted some French journalists to depict London as a city of mean streets, rampant crime and "no-go" areas.

This actually did happen in London. That's London in England where all handguns were banned 10 years ago. And also where crime of all sorts including savage murders like these have skyrocketed since the gun ban.

So of course now the only rational thing to do is ban knives in the UK. Using the logic of the anti-gun crowd that is the right course of action.