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Feedback: Could GPS kitchenware be the solution to knife crime?

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27 March 2019

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Paul McDevitt

Not the sharpest

A PARLIAMENTARIAN has come up with an incisive solution to the pressing issue of knife crime in the UK. Scott Mann, MP for North Cornwall, : “Every knife sold in the UK should have a GPS tracker fitted in the handle. It’s time we had a national database like we do with guns. If you’re carrying it around you had better have a bloody good explanation, obvious exemptions for fishing etc.”

Thousands of Twitter users immediately began skewering the idea. Would existing knives need to be retrofitted with tracking systems, they wanted to…

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