On the heels of the February murder of a 19-year-old; Michael Manley, Chief Superintendent for Nottinghamshire Police is urging young men to turn in their friends who carry a knife.
“If people know their friends are going out armed with a knife, I want them to challenge them. Carrying a knife is disgraceful and it’s cowardly,” Manley told the Hucknall Dispatch.
Manley went further saying that even being in the presence of a friend carrying a knife could land you in hot water. “These people will end up getting caught up in an investigation and are risking their futures by not having the courage to stand up and say it’s wrong.”
In July, the UK’s ‘two strikes and you’re out’ rule came into effect where UK residents face an automatic 6 months jail term if caught carrying an illegal knife for a second time. Here is a list of knives that are illegal to carry in the UK. Though, the website says that this “is not a complete list”.
In contrast to the UK, in the U.S. knife laws are being eased across the country thanks in large part to Knife Rights and its founder Doug Ritter. In this interview at BLADE Show, Ritter said “knives are a tool used by millions of Americans everyday at home, at work, [and] recreationally.”
Click here to watch the entire interview.
Click here to join Knife Rights.
In August, KnifeNews reported the story of Chad Speer, a good samaritan who was carrying his Case Yellow Trapper pocket knife and was able to save a woman from drowning by cutting her seatbelt.
Michael Hoellwarth
September 8, 2015 at 11:40 pm
That’s like saying a screwdriver or wrench is cowardly. It’s just a tool. Chill bro.
Stephen Robinson
September 8, 2015 at 11:41 pm
Screw that guy
Ruben Leal
September 8, 2015 at 11:42 pm
yes and not carrying a knife is dumb and life threatening
Dan Halfdan Williams
September 8, 2015 at 11:43 pm
It’s amazing that despite no one carrying knives and guns they still have a ridiculous violent crime rate.
Philip Michael George
September 8, 2015 at 11:46 pm
Being a pussy cop is also disgraceful.
Being willfully ignorant is cowardly.
Darren Rich
September 8, 2015 at 11:48 pm
Well hopefully these cops that feel this way never have to cut a seat belt off in an emergency.
Mike Ruff
September 8, 2015 at 11:51 pm
I’d like to go there and carry around a butter knife and see what happens, just for shits and giggles!
Lonnie Price
September 8, 2015 at 11:51 pm
British cops are wimps and gutless.
Dustin-Brandie Savage III
September 8, 2015 at 11:53 pm
I carry 2 knives and a M&P Shield 9 or a G19 and a spare mag every single day, what does that make me????
Peter Bernier Jr
September 8, 2015 at 11:53 pm
Pussy. If I can’t have my knife I don’t go
Maxwell James Super
September 8, 2015 at 11:56 pm
A man without a knife is a man without a life.
Forget that chode dozer. A knife is a tool, nothing about owning tools makes a person a coward.
Rene Cormier
September 8, 2015 at 11:57 pm
What a dumb ass
Mair Gan Eagla
September 8, 2015 at 11:58 pm
Damned if you do damned if you don’t
David Flamino
September 8, 2015 at 11:58 pm
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard I guess if you planning on getting into fights fist fights
Miles Pinon
September 8, 2015 at 11:59 pm
Ima be curryin’ all day errday
David Lay
September 8, 2015 at 11:59 pm
I’m not dressed if I am not carrying a knife.
Thomas Finlay
September 9, 2015 at 12:00 am
A knife is just a tool same as a screw driver, dumb ass cop
David Flamino
September 9, 2015 at 12:00 am
Right o I got two kimura balisongs
Matt Joel
September 9, 2015 at 12:04 am
Punk ass bitches
Jon Millsap
September 9, 2015 at 12:04 am
Its disturbing seeing how far the UK has sunk over the last 30 years. Very sad for them to be a disarmed nation of sitting ducks… its despicable.
Jesse Lambert
September 9, 2015 at 12:06 am
Carrying A knife is a bad idea. That’s why I carry at least two.
Jaco Coetzee
September 9, 2015 at 12:07 am
You dont live in South Africa.
Rory Gallagher
September 9, 2015 at 12:08 am
What a ridiculous country. It seems that most of the people with any stones left there starting in the 1500s leaving nothing but cowards.
Joe Baldjian
September 9, 2015 at 12:08 am
I carry a knife as a tool..whether I’m at work or not, always comes in handy to cut rope, open boxes, etc..but never with the intention to use it as a weapon to harm someone.
Kage No Musha
September 9, 2015 at 12:09 am
lol uk cops…they count as cops as much as mounties lol
Matthew Aloysius Clark
September 9, 2015 at 12:09 am
Yes, no knives, dammit! And soon, no sharp sticks or foul language!
Shane Hernandez
September 9, 2015 at 12:10 am
And your gun,tazer, baton,spray and handcuffs? Lol you do what you have to do to protect yourself and I’ll do what i have to do for mine. Its none of your buisness how i protect myself anyway.
Shane Hernandez
September 9, 2015 at 12:10 am
Now days especially!
Mike Pilon
September 9, 2015 at 12:12 am
bs
Trevor Pelletier
September 9, 2015 at 12:12 am
I use my benchmade to pare apples!!!
Terry Foster
September 9, 2015 at 12:13 am
Prepared
Rusty Shackleford
September 9, 2015 at 12:15 am
Hahaha doh
Dustin-Brandie Savage III
September 9, 2015 at 12:16 am
I thought I may be a super paranoid coward or something. Lol
Robert Romaszewski
September 9, 2015 at 12:18 am
What the hell is a gravity knife
William Walden
September 9, 2015 at 12:18 am
Sounds like the brits are as stupid as the liberals here in this country …
Terry Foster
September 9, 2015 at 12:19 am
I have carried a pocket knife since I got my first one, my seventh X-mas. I got in minor trouble at school when a pencil lead broke and instead of going across the room to the wall mounted sharpener,I whipped out my little schrade and proudly fixed the problem.
But it never deterred me and those were different days.Days I miss.
Mark Mcclendon
September 9, 2015 at 12:20 am
A gutless society
Philip Michael George
September 9, 2015 at 12:20 am
I like your grandpa’s style.
Mine told me, “If you’ve got your boots and a blade, you’ve got it made.”
Dana McClure
September 9, 2015 at 12:21 am
Any knife that opens via the.weight of it’s blade ie gravity. Switchblades are spring activated and a diff category.
Kelly King
September 9, 2015 at 12:23 am
I carry one combat folder, one combat fixed, one utility folder, and one utility fixed. Might seem a little excessive but I like to have options and backup. Along with my XD40 and spare mag. Never the victim I shall be.
Thomas Myers
September 9, 2015 at 12:23 am
If they feel that way about a knife I wonder how they feel about carrying a pistol
Ruben Leal
September 9, 2015 at 12:23 am
Since the beginning of recorded time man has carried a knife in some form or another I’m not stopping now because some flat foot wants to shame me. To me your not a man if you don’t carry a knife.
Kelly King
September 9, 2015 at 12:24 am
Plus might go everywhere bag. Which has a lot more gear in it.
David Lay
September 9, 2015 at 12:27 am
Not a day passes that my knife doesn5see use of some type.
Evan Tactics
September 9, 2015 at 12:29 am
The UK has been morphed into a nation of bed wetting pussys by liberal policys.
Shaw Eberhardt
September 9, 2015 at 12:33 am
Europe is just full of useless pansy ass douchebags who wear capris
Justin Walker
September 9, 2015 at 12:34 am
As a cop myself, this man must be a disgraceful coward. They have some real issues in the UK if this is their stance.
Jarred Beasley
September 9, 2015 at 12:39 am
no guns, no knives, just asking to be invaded
Jerome Adams
September 9, 2015 at 12:39 am
They already banned guns, going after knives next, then rocks and sticks.
Joe Romero
September 9, 2015 at 12:42 am
I feel naked with out my pocket knife. I use mine daily for a variety of different things
Scott Van Scheik
September 9, 2015 at 12:44 am
It’s gotta suck to be the Chief Superintendent in a country that keeps trying to fix crime by ignoring the criminals and going after the tools.
Eric Jenkins
September 9, 2015 at 12:46 am
What. A. Douche.
Jeremy Rodriguez
September 9, 2015 at 12:48 am
I Carry a knife for more than 14 years,and ive never used it in a bad manner
Joe Baldjian
September 9, 2015 at 12:49 am
Agreed !
Joe Baldjian
September 9, 2015 at 12:50 am
Exactly David!
Evan Tactics
September 9, 2015 at 12:53 am
I would hardly say its “amazing”, more totally predictable.
Matt Lee
September 9, 2015 at 12:54 am
Actually, the skill it takes to wield a knife as a tool or a defensive weapon makes it more honorable than the gun. However in modern day, the gun is a great equilizer.
Jeff Goyer
September 9, 2015 at 12:56 am
Cowardly??? It’s a tool so does that mean a Carpenter is a coward too if he wears a hammer? What a Dork!
Dale Edward Freshour
September 9, 2015 at 1:02 am
I use a knife that I carry all day long…work, lunch, things at home, and even once when attacked for being white. My 10yr. Old even carries one when not at class.
Dale Edward Freshour
September 9, 2015 at 1:06 am
The first usually works
Rocco Lenski
September 9, 2015 at 1:11 am
Well said sir.
Joshua Howe
September 9, 2015 at 1:13 am
This is where our liberals need shipped too! How are we not funding this with a GoFundMe or something like that??? There has to be stipulations though. They must legally forfeit and denounce their United States citizenship, which will gain them a one way ticket to this hell hole. Let’s get the ball rolling on this. And I’m sure we’ll (the people that live this page) will definitely share and spread the word on their dreams come true, of no guns and knives and unicorns and shit.
James Galade
September 9, 2015 at 1:18 am
A knife only becomes a weapon if you intend to use it like one, otherwise its just a tool and its tool thats been used for millions of years. Dont blame the tool, its just an object instead blame the hands behind it. After all in the wrong hands just about anything is a weapon. Rememder its the intent that makes it a weapon, not its design.
Herb Rice
September 9, 2015 at 1:18 am
F that. Carry a gun. Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
Scott Wright
September 9, 2015 at 1:21 am
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh! What! There against knives now,whats next? Are they going to cut off there arms!
Thomas Goodwin
September 9, 2015 at 1:26 am
That’s one dumb law one dumb country one dumb cop!
Matt Norman Lloyd Borth
September 9, 2015 at 1:27 am
Its illegal in Canada to carry a knife for self defense. Its also illegal to conceal a knife, so use your pocket clip. Its a tool, but if you say otherwise or you piss the cop off your knife will be taken and you will be charged.
Jay Doverspike
September 9, 2015 at 1:29 am
They need the nerf crotch bat.
Todd Grant
September 9, 2015 at 1:39 am
This comment thread is hilarious…
Joseph Woodard
September 9, 2015 at 1:40 am
Lmaoshifottasotfa… He don’t need a knife because his teeth look like a yellow chain saw blade an can cut through his mom’s underwear with out a problem except the pube’s getting stuck in the gaps.
Kaia Laila Channingandlt
September 9, 2015 at 1:41 am
I carry a knife everywhere i go and i can throw it quickly and hit my target every time. .knives are great
Francis Reny
September 9, 2015 at 1:43 am
I carry a pocket knife since im 13 years old and i never using it as a weapon.
Tobin Michel
September 9, 2015 at 1:44 am
I carry both. It’s not being a coward it’s called being smart. That’s why we won and that’s why they’re loosing now to the Muslims. Letting them take over their country. Bunch of dumb asses!
Jeffrey DeBord
September 9, 2015 at 1:44 am
This is why we kicked their asses 239 years ago.
Kevin Slater
September 9, 2015 at 1:45 am
More tidbits from the perfect utopia: if your dog bites, attacks, or otherwise harms an intruder, you could be charged. Dyes, mace, pepper spray and tasers are illegal to use in a self defense situation.
James Edward Smith
September 9, 2015 at 1:50 am
The Saxons may have derived their name from seax, a kind of knife for which they were known. The seax has a lasting symbolic impact in the English counties of Essex and Middlesex, both of which feature three seaxes in their ceremonial emblem. Their names, along with those of Sussex and Wessex, contain a remnant of the word “Saxon”.
Thomas Potts
September 9, 2015 at 2:15 am
I think he should just say just take it like a man.
Tim Piatenko
September 9, 2015 at 2:16 am
So glad I don’t live there
Robert Leroux
September 9, 2015 at 2:23 am
And a large caliber pistol. Disarming the citizenry is cowardly and disgraceful
Jeffrey Levites
September 9, 2015 at 2:24 am
Use mine a lot, not for stabbings but for its usefulness. Its not like im carrying a gun or something…they suck at opening up my paint cans.
Jesse Lambert
September 9, 2015 at 2:28 am
I carry both.
For one thing it’s awkward opening a box or cutting a rope with a gun.
For another, a knife is a good thing to reach for if someone tries to take your gun.
Rob Rudy
September 9, 2015 at 2:35 am
It’s because they only have batons and not guns.
Greg Allred
September 9, 2015 at 2:37 am
What the freaking hell is wrong with those people.
Mike Blumers
September 9, 2015 at 2:55 am
I have at least two at all times!! Never know when you’ll need it!!
Jeff Lease
September 9, 2015 at 2:55 am
Maybe he should go mow Scotland Yard. Hah!!
Jared Lane
September 9, 2015 at 3:03 am
The U.K has become a complete joke
Jason Stryth
September 9, 2015 at 3:17 am
Different place … Different rules and regulations .
In my country , I wouldn’t be caught dead without my knife .
Oh ! Canada !!
Shrek Fisher
September 9, 2015 at 3:39 am
Hmm, although I do not live in the U.K. – this still has the tendency to affect us. Many so-called ‘free’ countries look to the liberal policies of other nations for new ideas on things to restrict from society.
However, looking at this; this is another example of those ‘fine’ (sarcasm) “no tolerance” rules that have been created in many schools and other places. They end-up punishing victims more than anyone else.
Example: someone is at home, making dinner. A rapist/thief enters and attempts to accost/harm the family. You happen to grab your knife to defend your family — according to these ‘simple laws’ this is no-tolerance scenario where you ‘threatened’ someone with a knife. Now, the rapist/thief sues you and you go to jail even though they are the evil and wrong person.
It’s a sad-state of affairs when an electrician is not allowed to have tools on-hand to take care of work, because this country (the U.K.) is so terrified of everyone and everything. Now, I am sure someone will immediately think “they didn’t ban X type of knife!” but, actually they did. This list is so vague and generic: that any police officer can find a way to demonize anyone they feel like. “lock knives” is a term that applies to box-cutters.
Sad, sad, sad.
Michael Garza
September 8, 2015 at 11:42 pm
This is America man!
Maxwell James Super
September 8, 2015 at 11:45 pm
A man without a knife is a man without a life.
A knife is a tool, nothing about owning tools makes a person a coward.
Shrek Fisher
September 9, 2015 at 3:50 am
You know… I know that everyone gets tired of Nazi comparisons.
However, if you have ever spoken with a holocaust survivor, I have had the horrific pleasure/disturbance of listening to 9.
Each and every one of them state this same thing, “it started with the registration. Then came the bans. They said it was for safety. We were turning them in to keep our neighborhoods safe.”
Now, unless every German-Jew is a liar… this seems like a negative trend.
Not saying it will result in mass genocide and a racial-cleansing; but, it does result in surrendering personal freedom and safety so that your overlords errmm.. leaders can feel safer from you.!
(Joshua Howe – not saying you were saying any of the above – just responding to having read your posted article.)
Jeremy Kanaga
September 9, 2015 at 12:06 am
will not be traveling here any time soon
Tim Mooney
September 9, 2015 at 12:58 am
I had some dumb s**t the other day tell me how tough he was because he carried a gun but he carried a knife as a backup, I told him you should be more concerned about the guy that carries a knife with no gun for a backup
Justin Walker
September 9, 2015 at 5:38 am
So crazy…

Wesley Sapp
September 9, 2015 at 5:44 am
All right give me a gun.
Flip van Veen
September 9, 2015 at 5:56 am
A knife is a tool that can be used as a weapon, not the other way around.
I never leave home without my tool!
Tim Gutierrez
September 9, 2015 at 6:13 am
I’m hispanic…leave my knife alone! 🙂
Matt Striplin
September 9, 2015 at 6:27 am
Lol morons
Jason Flook
September 9, 2015 at 7:14 am
Look I live in the UK carry 2 knives at work and a leatherman one legal one illegal and have used them in front of police at work from local bobbies to met police and the firearms officers at the airport none of them have said anything but that’s a nice sharp knife so don’t tar all of the police with the same brush or all the knife carriers
Oliver Hickey
September 9, 2015 at 7:18 am
Says the man with a truncheon, cs gas and a tazer!!!
Steve Smith
September 9, 2015 at 7:39 am
Wow very sad!
Duncan Castle
September 9, 2015 at 7:49 am
I do carry a stuffed gerbil in my pocket!!!!
Oliver Hickey
September 9, 2015 at 7:52 am
That is for another reason entirely
Duncan Castle
September 9, 2015 at 7:52 am
Shhhhhhh
Michael Morgan
September 9, 2015 at 8:30 am
Britain has become disgraceful and cowardly. Can you imagine this crop of Brits standing alone against the Nazis in 1940? They would have been crushed.
Mark Sycamore
September 9, 2015 at 9:22 am
They don’t fight like men back in the days, they carry now coz they can’t fight. . . Cowards feel big behind a blade ,
Thomas F Walden
September 9, 2015 at 9:50 am
I agree, unfortunately criminals don’t. A knife could save your life, or at least help you get through vacuum packaging.
David Spears
September 9, 2015 at 11:17 am
Only Ten? You need More. Along with guns & Ammo
David Spears
September 9, 2015 at 11:19 am
Well ballicks. The U.K. you sucks and can kiss my ass.
Jeff Segura
September 9, 2015 at 11:37 am
I carry a knife to scare British police, admittedly o have met very few in Texas but you never know.
Walter Buddy Conner
September 9, 2015 at 11:57 am
I carry a knife every day. Again it is a tool not a weapon
Stephen Rodriguez
September 9, 2015 at 12:32 pm
F#@k them. A knife is the most used tool on the face of the earth. The most versatile of any tool created.
Lonnie Price
September 9, 2015 at 12:46 pm
If you don’t see the criminals and how they shoot at cops here in the states you know nothing retard, then you don’t see the reason why the criminals get shot,,it’s common sense, you shoot at a cop you get shot.
John Thornton
September 9, 2015 at 12:59 pm
I read their list of banned knives, I never understood why locking knives are illegal? Btw, Death Stars are illegal in the UK too, they said nothing about light sabers though. 🙂
Riley Johnson
September 9, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Fuk the uk I’m a Texan and we carry big knives so fuk u
Julio Ramirez
September 9, 2015 at 1:23 pm
I didn’t know that. In fact i bought some very cool knives over there, in Montreal, there’s a store where you can get all kinds of blade at a very good price. Thanks for that tip.
Tony Dunstan
September 9, 2015 at 2:01 pm
I wanted all the knives on that list so now im pissed off
Dave LeFebvre
September 9, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Ok ibuse my knife everyday in one way or another and if I don’t have my gun on me then it’s a back up alternative to save my life in which it has numerous times
Dave LeFebvre
September 9, 2015 at 2:38 pm
I guess if you were to get lost out in the woods you could cut something with your hand instead of your pocket knife to save your life, or cut something you killed with your hand instead of your knife to save your life
DuJuan Broadus Sr.
September 9, 2015 at 3:17 pm
You are the real MVP!!
Jesse Lambert
September 9, 2015 at 3:39 pm
I don’t intend to harm anyone either. If someone intends me or mine harm though, whatever it takes to stop them might not be real comfortable.
Dan Morales
September 9, 2015 at 3:55 pm
Knives are for work related projects if I need protection I have a .45 for that
Deion Brett
September 9, 2015 at 2:15 pm
he don’t cut open boxes I get
Lou Magud
September 9, 2015 at 7:05 pm
My wife even counts on me to have my blade. Hey can you cut this. Hey can you open this.
Nic McAleer
September 9, 2015 at 7:33 pm
I spent 5 years in a knife shop. I would have people tell me knives are dangerous on a daily basis. I would always calmly put mine on the counter and ask them “When does the dangerous beast jump up and attack?”
Kevin Paradis
September 9, 2015 at 8:40 pm
The knife I carry is a tool, not a weapon.
Ryan Ruderford
September 10, 2015 at 6:39 am
They have no backbone/ why is being prepared or protecting yourself a bad “cowardly ” thing
Fritz Mulder
September 10, 2015 at 12:26 pm
It depends on the type of knife.
George Martinez
September 11, 2015 at 2:37 am
Lmfao!! Bitch I carry three at a time plus a pistol!!
Richard Scott Robertson
September 27, 2015 at 3:23 pm
I am a maintenance man I carry a knife and a seven in one screw driver every were more times than not that is what I use I have more tools but my knife and screw driver is what I need to get a job done its not cowardly to carry it called being prepared
Vito Genovese
September 27, 2015 at 8:25 pm
The one most famous trait of the colonists is that they immediately issue massive weapon ban. People are stupid enough to accept that I guess. Anything more stupid than a british? Not sure if they invented that. lmao
Megan N Taylor Fast
November 1, 2015 at 6:54 pm
I carry a knife and Glock 26 everyday. Gotta love Texas
Riley Johnson
November 1, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Amen to that much respect