[colechristensen]

>We're in the middle of a knife crime epidemic, and this is seeing calls to more strictly enforce the ban on sales of knives, or to change the law to prevent pointy knives[1] being sold.

Replace knife with gun and you have the exact conversation in America. This is what I mean. (I am not talking about the response but the subject and degree of concern about it)

Take away a weapon and people will find something else. Focusing on access to the weapon and not what leads people to kill perpetuates the problem.

My thesis restated. Too many people are blaming the tools people use to empower them to kill, not enough people are talking about the motivations of people who kill and how to help prevent the motives.

If you want people to kill each other less you have to create a more just, open society. You have to alienate people less and make sure everyone can have hope. You have to understand people who hate and empathize with them instead of demonizing them.

You also have to make policy that is driven by thought and reason instead of party-ism, instead of fear, instead of intuitive emotion.