You want to feel safe, you want to fit in, you want to feel respected and admired then it only makes sense to carry a knife. Everybody is carrying one and you would be a fool not to do it, otherwise you would put yourself in danger and, at the end of the day, why would you put yourself in that situation?
This makes absolute sense until you look at the statistics. if you carry a knife or any type of weapon with you, you are more likely to endanger yourself, your friends, the people surraunding you and no; self defense is not the answer nor the escape goat excuse, as you can get incarcerated up to 4 years just for carrying a knife let alone using one.
The ONS publishes data on police recorded crime involving a knife or sharp instrument for a selection of serious violent offences. In the year ending March 2022, there were around 45,000 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales. This was 9% higher than in 2020/21 and 34% higher than in 2010/11. Recent trends in knife crime have been affected by undercounting in the Greater Manchester Police Force area prior to 2018/19. Increases in recorded offences since 2018/19 are directly related with improvements in recording practices.
There is no place and time where ”stabbing” someone is safe, no safe location in the body o safe moment in the day and no safe location in the city; every stabbing can be fatal.
Chekhov’s gun is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as its being fired some time later in the plot. Same pattern travel with us in our everyday life, there is no chance of you going out with a knife or a weapon ”just in case”, if you carry a knife you are going to find or at least search for the opportunity to use it.