Complete sword ban proposed in UK - UK residents only

[Cornelius Quintus]

"Detective Chief Superintendent Carnochan stated in evidence ...that:
“in 2004-05 there has been only one murder involving a sword. That is one too many, but we must put the situation in context. There have been four attempted murders and 23 serious assaults involving swords. Those are the crimes that have been reported ..."
(that will only be valid for Scotland itself, not the U.K.).

Ave Salvianus,

there are some other interesting facts hidden in that document.

The homicide statistics features a larger number of incidents, but just about so called 'sharp instruments' in general. That will include domestic blades, military/hunting knives, razors and screwdrivers... Swords are very rare between that 'instruments' I suppose.

Later, the text indicates that criminals prefer shorter blades, even razors. So two dozen swords assaults are two dozens too much. But still more an abuse of a rarely used weapon (if the swords were sharpened at all). I would like to know what else 'sharp instruments' were used in more than two dozens attacks. Perhaps we'll read a lot about razors, kitchen knives, spades and axes then...

In fact, criminal's first choice are weapons which are easy to hide. That's the real danger. Therefore in Germany 'butterfly' and switchblade knives are banned, but no 'Braveheart'-sized swords.

What's about the also mentioned 'razor gangs'? One hardly will find smaller blades, far from being a large knife or sword. Extremely sharp - very 'domestic' and available in every supermarket...