Pupil dies after school stabbing

[Still Waters]

A 16-year-old pupil has died after being stabbed at an Aberdeen school.

Police are treating the death of the pupil - named locally as Bailey Gwynne - at Cults Academy as a murder inquiry.

Officers said a 16-year-old male had been detained after emergency services were called to the school at about 13:30.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...etland-34660140

[+OverSword]

That sucks. I looked it up and the knife laws in the UK are much more strict than they are in the US:

It is illegal to:

• sell a knife of any kind to anyone under 18 years old (16 to 18 year olds in Scotland can buy cutlery and kitchen knives)
  
• carry a knife in public without good reason - unless it’s a knife with a folding blade 3 inches long (7.62 cm) or less, eg a Swiss Army knife
  
• carry, buy or sell any type of banned knife
  
• use any knife in a threatening way (even a legal knife, such as a Swiss Army knife)
  

Lock knives (knives with blades that can be locked when unfolded) are not folding knives, and are illegal to carry in public without good reason.

[Goodnite]

A prime example of why more laws and regulations won't stop criminals. After all isn't assault deemed a crime by legislation? The only thing that stops an evil doer is a good doer with a better weapon.

[Farmer77]

That sucks. I looked it up and the knife laws in the UK are much more strict than they are in the US:

It is illegal to:

• sell a knife of any kind to anyone under 18 years old (16 to 18 year olds in Scotland can buy cutlery and kitchen knives)
  
• carry a knife in public without good reason - unless it’s a knife with a folding blade 3 inches long (7.62 cm) or less, eg a Swiss Army knife
  
• carry, buy or sell any type of banned knife
  
• use any knife in a threatening way (even a legal knife, such as a Swiss Army knife)
  

Lock knives (knives with blades that can be locked when unfolded) are not folding knives, and are illegal to carry in public without good reason.

That is absolutely nuts

[Still Waters]

Update -

Boy, 16, Charged Over School Stabbing Death.

https://uk.news.yaho...04.html#24TmXCy