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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
i'm pretty sure glasgow gangs were going around with machetes when i was a kid, so it's not a new thing
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No they did not when you were a kid it was razors
this article from 2 years ago shows how the machete has rocketed up in use in the last decade
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ven-years.html
Attacks with machetes soar sixfold in just seven years as critics say they should be on list of banned blades]
- The blades are now being used to perpetrate an average of 22 crimes a day
- Figures show machete-related offences have doubled in two years alone
- True figure is likely to be even higher as Scotland Yard did not provide statistics
and it came out of the West Midlands..