Except that in the UK it is illegal to carry a knife as a weapon, so over most of the country there is no chance of it being an issue.
Yes there are a few small communities where there are many problems including both knifes and guns, but they are not normal even if the press has taken an interest in them recently making the problems seem commonplace.
Seriously?
Fatal stabbings in London in 2018
January 1 – Steve Frank Navarez-Jara, 20, Islington
January 3 – Elizabeta Lacatusu, 44, Redbridge
January 8 – Daniel Frederick, 34, died in Hackney
January 9 – Dami Odeyingbo, 18, stabbed in Bromley
January 11 – Harry Uzoka, 25, killed in Shepherd’s Bush
January 28 – Yaya Mbye, 26, stabbed in Stoke Newington
January 29 – Juan Olmos Saca, 39, stabbed in Peckham
January 31 – Khader Saleh, 25, stabbed at Wormwood Scrubs prison
February 3 – Hassan Ozcan, 19, knifed in Barking
February 3 – Kwabena Nelson, a youth worker, died after being stabbed near his home in Tottenham
February 8 – Hannah Leonard, 55, stabbed in a flat in Camden
February 11 – Sabri Chibani, 19, stabbed in Streatham
February 13 – Saeeda Hussain, 54, was stabbed in Ilford
February 14 – Lord Promise Nkenda, 17, stabbed in Canning Town
February 18 – Lewis Blackman, 19, knifed in Kensington
February 19 – Rotimi Oshibanjo, 26, stabbed in Southall
February 20 – Sadiq Mohammed, 20, stabbed in Camden
February 20 – Abdikarim Hassan, 17, stabbed in Camden
February 25 – Michael Boyle, 44, stabbed in the chest
March 1 – Christopher Beaumont, 42, stabbed in Hammersmith
March 5 – Laura Figueira, 47, stabbed in Twickenham
March 5 – Kelva Smith, 20, knifed in Croydon
March 14 – Lyndon Davis, 18, stabbed in Chadwell Heath
March 16 – Naomi Hersi, 36, found with stab wounds at hotel near Heathrow Airport
March 17 – Russell Jones, 23, stabbed in Enfield
March 18 – Tyrone Silcot, 41, stabbed in Hackney
March 19 – Balbir Johal, 48, knifed in Southall
March 19 – A 41-year-old was stabbed to death in Waltham Forest
March 20 – Beniamin Pieknyi, 21, stabbed at Stratford shopping centre
March 26 – David Potter, 50, stabbed in Tooting
March 29 – Reece Tshoma, 23, stabbed in Plumstead
March 30 – Leyla Mtumwa, 36, found with stab wounds at a home in Haringey
April 1 – A 20-year-old was stabbed in Wandsworth
April 4 – A 38-year-old man was stabbed at a house in Lewisham
April 4 – Israel Ogunsola, 18, was stabbed to death in Hackney on 4 April. Police were alerted by a motorist and performed first aid but the teenager died at the scene
April 5 – Five teenagers and one man were stabbed in London within a space of 24 hours. One of the victims was aged 13 and left fighting for his life
April 9 – A man in his 70s was stabbed four times and robbed as he returned to his Harold Hill home after collecting his pension
April 12 – A woman in her 20s was arrested after stabbing a man in Isle of Dogs on April 12, 2018.
April 15 – A man named locally as Raul Nicolaie was knifed to death just before 6pm in Colindale, North London.
April 15 – Samantha Clarke, 38, was stabbed to death in Brixton, South West London, just after 6.30pm and police arrested a man in his 20s.
April 20 – Aaron Springett, 32, died after he was found collapsed in Morden, South West London, just before 1o.30pm. A 31-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder.
April 21 – A man, 20, was stabbed to death in Finsbury Park, north London, as a leading surgeon warned of a “summer of carnage” in the capital
May 17 – A man, 24, was stabbed to death in Crows Road, Barking at around 11.30pm.
May 20 – A man in his 20s stabbed in Mitcham, South London
May 21 – Marcel Campbell, 20, was stabbed to death just yards from Islington town hall in North London
May 30 – A man, believed to be in his 40s, was stabbed to death in Kensington, West London.
June 1 – A woman was found stabbed to death in Brent, North West London.
June 9 – Edmond Jonuzi, 35, was stabbed to death close to Turnpike Land Tube station in North London in what is believed to be a drugs related attack.
June 23 – Jordan Douherty, 15, becomes the youngest to be stabbed in London this year after being knifed in the heart in Romford, East London.
June 27 – A man, 20, was stabbed to death on an estate in Edmonton, North London.
June 30 – Four people were stabbed at the Garage Nation festival in East London.
July 2 – a 14-year-old boy was repeatedly stabbed on Fairbridge Road, Islington
July 14 – Katerina Makunova, 17, was killed after a stabbing in Camberwell.
July 25 – An 18-year-old man, Latwaan Griffiths, was stabbed to death in Camberwell.
August 1 – Incognito, 23, was stabbed to death in Camberwell
August 1 – Two other men were also stabbed at the scene where Incognito was killed. They were taken to hospital.
August 5 – Man in his 20s fatally stabbed in Cambridge Gardens, Kingston-Upon-Thames.
August 15 – Nurse Simonne Kerr, 31, was stabbed to death at her home in Grayshott Road, in Battersea
August 16 – At about 5.15pm four boys were stabbed in a “gang knife fight” in Elmington Estate, Camberwell – reportedly leaving two “disembowelled” and there were claims it was over a “belt”
August 17 – A 42-year-old man was attacked just before 4.40am at a home in Waltham Forest, East London
August 17 – A 63-year-old man was found stabbed to death in Walworth, south-east London
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