Anarcho-tyranny is a term used to describe societies which obsessively regulate and punish law abiding citizens, while being unwilling or unable to protect them from crime, violence and abuses of their good nature. These societies are terrible places to live.
Many people believe that the UK is either already an anarcho-tyranny or close to becoming one.
That argument is strengthened by today’s report that the, ‘heroic yoga teacher stabbed in Southport attacks calls for ban on pointed kitchen knives’. I do not wish to diminish Leanne Lucas’s suffering, or her bravery. Axel Rudakubana stabbed her five times as she fought him off, and managed to save several young girls from him. Leanne is a hero and deserves all the honour and support we can offer her. The fear of knives she has developed since the attack is a perfectly natural response to such horrific trauma.
Violent, dangerous men will always find a way to improvise weapons
But her campaign for ‘a ban on pointed kitchen knives that can be used as weapons’ is deeply misguided.
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