Comments by "Bond25" (@Bond2025) on "Every Day Carry - What is Legal in the UK?" video.

You need to remember, if you are being attacked, that person has set out to cause you serious harm or kill you, so you need to get in first. Don't ever be scared of defending yourself in any attack, even if your home is broken in to. Attackers quite often fall down the stairs two or three times after being startled when you walk out of the bedroom and switch the light on. A Chief Constable once said, "Dead witnesses can't talk, so it was self defence" which seems fair enough.
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Your umbrella is a weapon too. Mine has a spike at the end.
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Well if you believe that, you believe anything. Most use a disposable craft knife or a knife from the kitchen drawer.
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I carry a biro, easily doubles as a Kubotan.
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He is very busy during the day, so was sitting up doing a quick youtube edit and decided to open a parcel he forgot about from earlier on that day. That sounds reasonable to me. Someone run at him as he was walking out of the kitchen with a cup of coffee and large knife about to be used to cut a scone! There are loads of defences. The best I heard was for a man being caught in a shop with a knife and accused of attempt robbery. He had been "making a pie" and was cutting pastry up when he saw a friend walk past, he run out of his kitchen and over the road to see him going in to a shop and followed him in, completely forgetting about the knife he was holding. The CCTV didn't match up with that version of events!
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I actually have a large 8inch by 3inch knife at home and use it every day for cooking! That is the genuine use for it and it's mainly for chopping vegetables as I do like to cook, mainly Indian, but also Chinese foods. If someone happened to break in whilst I was preparing a meal for the next day, they should know not to touch anything sharp.
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@soylentgreen326 Exactly, that's payment for all those extra unrequired 2minute hearings to ask for future hearing dates to be changed - when it could be done by email! We all know that Barristers were well annoyed when Graduated Fees were changed to stop the abuse that had gone on for years. All those short hearings really added up and it doesn't help that some Judges are part or full owners of Barristers Chambers that have a monopoly in some parts of the UK. This is probably why cases take so long, keep getting delayed and moved etc. The more hearings, the more money. It put payments back to covering work and hearings that were actually required...
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@soylentgreen326 They do, but to be fair you are paying for their vast experience of the Law. You try going in to a case representing yourself and see how far you get. There are procedures and timetables to follow throughout a trial, various tasks need to be completed like obtaining and disclosing evidence, obtaining reports, getting experts in particular fields. You get what you pay for with Barristers, apart from the people that represented people involved with Post Office cases - they really let their clients down badly and should be struck-off. It is very true that the more money you spend, the better your defence will be. That usually applies to people that have committed offences and get off on a technicality. If you have not committed a crime and there is no evidence, you should be able to rely on a Jury, but a lot are either thick or stupid when it comes to keeping up with the cases. They should really have some form of IQ Test before people can serve on a Jury. You will always get people making their minds up based on a persons wardrobe, character references written by random people and they will often stay deliberating to avoid going back to work for part of the week. Everyone knows what goes on! If you have a Barrister from London, you will nearly always win. If you have what's known in the legal profession as a "Liverpool Jury" you will always get away with certain offences due to local hatred of police and government.
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s139.5 is a joke, this is why certain groups think they can carry a knife and FOBL (Fear of Being Labelled) means Police will not deal with it using the Law and evidence they have.
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