The Blog of meggi51

That's a crazy law. Here, I can't imagine such a thing. In the schools they have that rule though. My little boy carries a knife often. He is just a little boy with a cub scout knife or sometimes a pocket knife or multi-tool. He has several.

Yep, it IS crazy, but it's typical of our present government. They introduce blanket legislation with no thought as to how it affects the innocent. A couple of years ago, my younger son, who was then 13, went with a pal to explore an abandoned house, on a patch of waste-ground, with the idea of maybe making a den in it. A nearby resident saw them going into the house and, suspecting they were up to no good, called the police. Poor kids were terrified when they came out of the building, to be surrounded by no less than FOUR police officers! They were forced to their knees, handcuffed and taken to a police station in a town a good ten miles round trip from here ((our local station closes at 4p.m). There, they were fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed and locked in cells! The arresting officers and the duty sergeant were, fortunately, sensible men who weren't happy with the situation, but had to follow protocol. The boys weren't charged, but my son's Swiss Army knife was confiscated. It also means that my son's fingerprints and DNA are now in the police database. I can see this kind of thing happening more frequently when this new law is implemented - while the REAL hardcases, who carry knives with intent will carry on doing so.