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In the UK where it is a crime to actively defend yourself, the citizens have turn to passive defense attempting to make it more difficult for criminals to do one harm; well at least where knives are concerned.  From Stab-proof school uniforms go on sale to protect pupils from knife attacks

Parents are sending children to school in stab-proof uniforms to guard against knife crime, it has emerged.

They are paying a firm which makes body armour to line blazers and jumpers with a stab-resistant material called Kevlar.

The precautions are aimed at protecting pupils from knife attacks as street crime spills over into schools.

A wave of stabbings involving teenagers includes the killing of promising footballer Kiyan Prince, who was knifed just yards from his school gates in north London.

The reality of course is that crimes involving knives are proportionately very very low” Alf Hitchcock, of the Association of Chief Police Officers told BBC News Online.

Despite this alarming statistic

Seven boys under the age of 16 have died in knife attacks in the space of just two months this year.

It seems that some adults also share the parent concerns

Teachers are also demanding to be equipped with stab-proof vests to protect them from attack as they frisk pupils for knives and guns.

New laws which recently came into effect will allow staff to conduct forcible searches of students suspected of carrying offensive weapons.

But members of the Professional Association of Teachers are saying they should not be made to carry out searches unless they are provided with body armour.

I’m sure that the UK socialists who championed gun confiscation still maintain that the inability of citizens to defend themselves has made for a quieter peaceful country even when the evidence indicates the opposite.  This vision is also one that the Democrats in this country would like to impose on us.