Starmer Gone Wild: You Can’t Buy a Knife Online Without Passport and a Video Promising No Violence

Knives don’t kill people. People kill people. 

Beege had a great post yesterday about Kier Starmer blaming Amazon.com for selling knives online, allowing the Southport terrorist to get his hands on one. The fact that the perpetrator was a known wolf, had threatened to go on a killing spree at a school, and had multiple arrests was not the problem. It was the knife that did it. 

Everything about this case stinks to high heaven. Britons are in jail right now for telling the truth about the killer–apparently, saying true things is a form of terrorism that actually gets you punished by the authorities–and because of those same authorities’ failures to protect young children, all Britons will have to present a government ID AND RECORD A VIDEO in order to purchase a knife on Amazon.

Online stores to need two IDs to stop under-age knife sales https://t.co/KOQ2Vq1o1u

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 22, 2025

This is, of course, insane. Knives are one of the most common items in the world for a good reason, and I can assure you that knives don’t commit homicides on their own. Known terrorists do. 

People trying to buy knives online will face tougher measures to prove their age under new restrictions being brought forward in the wake of the Southport knife attack.

Axel Rudakubana, who has admitted murdering three young girls last July, bought a knife from Amazon when he was just 17, despite existing laws which prohibit the sale of most knives to under-18s.

Online retailers will be forced to ask anyone buying a knife for two types of identification under government plans, with buyers asked to submit an identity document, such as a passport, and record a live video to prove their age.

Amazon has said it takes its “responsibility around the sale of all age-restricted items – including bladed products – extremely seriously” and has launched an investigation.

Britain has a big problem with knife crime, but we all know that the problem isn’t knives–it’s the breakdown of law and order in society and an unwillingness to face the fact that a certain demographic is violently hostile to British society and people. Nobody attacks girls at a Taylor Swift dance event because a knife was available to them. They do it because they are deranged and committed to killing people for ideological reasons, at least for the most part. 

How many knives do you own? I haven’t counted my own, but the number is in the double-digit range, and not once has a knife jumped up and killed somebody. 

Starmer’s argument for restricting the sale of knives is that young people have too much access to them as if they don’t already have access to knives sitting in a drawer in every house. 

Blaming knives for knife violence makes no more sense than blaming cars for drunk driving. 

In an opinion piece for The Sun newspaper, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wrote that it “remains shockingly easy for our children to get their hands on deadly knives”.

“The lessons of this case could not be clearer,” he said.

“Time and again, as a child, the Southport murderer carried knives. Time and again, he showed clear intent to use them.

“And yet tragically, he was still able to order the murder weapon off the internet without any checks or barriers. A two-click killer. This cannot continue.”

Nazir Afzal, former chief prosecutor for north-west England, told the BBC that anything that would make it more difficult for a violent offender to get hold of a weapon “should be welcomed”, but it was important that the law was “properly enforced”.

Stronger ID checks are one of the proposals from a review of online knife sales being carried out for the government by Commander Stephen Clayman, the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s lead for knife crime.

At present, customers ordering knives on Amazon, for example, are asked to enter their date of birth and told: “Proof of age and a signature will be required on delivery.”

Consider Starmer’s logic: “time and again, as a child, the Southport murderer carried knives. 

Time and again, he showed clear intent to use them.

“And yet tragically, he was still able to order the murder weapon off the internet without any checks or barriers. A two-click killer. This cannot continue.”

In other words, everybody knew this guy was a ticking time bomb and had violated the law, but the police did nothing about it. But it’s not their fault; it is Amazon’s. 

What a tool. 

Government failures always lead to more government for some reason. Politicians always seem to fail upwards. Freedoms for ordinary people are put on the chopping block because politicians and police fail to do their jobs. 

As Beege said yesterday: Britain is lost.