{"id":187,"date":"2008-07-07T04:09:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T12:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:47:41","slug":"knives-away-pinkies-out-were-british-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Knives Away, Pinkies Out!  We're British, You Know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-left: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/7492758.stm\"><q>Jail knife carriers, says Cameron<\/q> from the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">Anyone caught carrying a knife without a good excuse should expect to be sent to prison, David Cameron says.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">[&#8230;]<\/span><br \/><br \/>Mr Cameron says knife crime is now a problem of <q>epidemic proportions<\/q> in the UK.<\/blockquote><\/div> <p>Knife crime is such a problem in the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> because <em>violent<\/em> crime is a problem.  In fact, <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">per capita<\/span>, there are more incidents of most sorts of violent crime in the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> than in the <abbr title=\"United States\">US<\/abbr>, though this fact is generally hidden by the British using different data reporting protocols.  Violent crime is at greater levels in the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> in spite of their having <em>gun<\/em> control, because <em>guns<\/em> aren't the <em>cause<\/em>.  Nor are <em>knives<\/em>.  The prohibition of guns has largely resulted in a substitution of knives.  A prohibition of knives will largely result in some <em>other<\/em> substitution.  And innocent people who <em>aren't<\/em> protected by the police will be ever more at the mercy of criminals.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jail knife carriers, says Cameron from the BBC Anyone caught carrying a knife without a good excuse should expect to be sent to prison, David Cameron says.[&#8230;]Mr Cameron says knife crime is now a problem of epidemic proportions in the UK. Knife crime is such a problem in the UK because violent crime is a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[278,173,279],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-public","tag-crime","tag-weapons","tag-weapons-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}