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The government will ban the sale of acids to anyone under the age of 18, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said.
Her pledge, made at the Conservative Party conference, comes after assaults using corrosive substances more than doubled in England since 2012.
Hmmm... not sure this will make much difference. Is it only U18's who commit these crimes? In any event, there's nothing to stop people over 18 buying them for their younger chavvy chums or prevent kids stealing acids etc. from their own households or anywhere else for that matter.
A better answer would be to increase the penalties possible for carrying and using such substances but that clearly won't solve the problem either.
what exactly would a legitimate buyer do with acid ?
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Car batteries are full of sulphuric acid. Not exactly difficult for chavs and thugs to get hold of if they want. Not sure how comparatively dangerous the sort of cleaning products you can buy freely in the shops are though. Obviously they're not good to come into contact with, possibly much more so via the eyes and ingestion than just contact with the skin.
Sadly, I don't think any of this is going to make much difference to those who're inclined towards using these chemicals to attack others. The sale of knives to younger people has been banned for years and there are anti-knife campaigns and messages everywhere yet it really doesn't seem to have made much difference. What we need to get to grips with is the youth/gang culture which is behind most of these problems and the longer we kick that can down the road the harder it'll be.
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Re: Sales of acid to u18's to be banned
Acids can be used in art for etching etc. We used to put acid in the pool in RSA to balance pH with the chlorine.
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Sadly, I don't think any of this is going to make much difference to those who're inclined towards using these chemicals to attack others. The sale of knives to younger people has been banned for years and there are anti-knife campaigns and messages everywhere yet it really doesn't seem to have made much difference. What we need to get to grips with is the youth/gang culture which is behind most of these problems and the longer we kick that can down the road the harder it'll be.
Can't we do both? Just saying it won't work doesn't get anything done unless we try and get behind sorting it out in a multi-pronged manner.
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Can't we do both? Just saying it won't work doesn't get anything done unless we try and get behind sorting it out in a multi-pronged manner.
We can and we must but clearly tackling the root of the problem is what's required sooner or later. You can't ban or restrict everything that a thug can turn into something dangerous so yes we have to do both, not just what's easiest.