There hasn't been a school shooting in the UK for nearly 30 years. Handguns were banned after the last school shooting and there hasn't been one since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:School_shootings_in_t...
Although that fact is sometimes forgotten by schools who copy the US in having "active shooter drills" though. Modern schools sound utterly miserable.
got a license for that mate?
Licensing wouldn't be worthwhile as almost every household would want knives for food preparation.
The US has more stabbings per-capita than the UK does, even on top of the shootings.
It would indeed be a miracle as the US would drastically have to reduce their number of shootings to get down to the number of UK mass stabbings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_stabbings_in_the_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
It seems to me like victim blaming for U.S. schools to have active shooter drills - it makes more sense to have much better training and screening of gun owners than trying to train the victims. However, given that the NRA is excessively powerful in U.S. politics, I can see why they are necessary, but it just seems easier to me to stop kids from being able to get hold of guns (e.g. have some rudimentary screening for gun purchases and require owners to keep them in locked cabinets when they are not in use).