Growing Problem Update: U.K. Teenage Knife Crime Curbed!

Just to show all things are relative, people in the U.K. are freaking about about knife crime in schools. Here in the U.S. we'd rather spend time worrying about how many rounds of 9mm ammo can fit into the lunchbox that the creepy neighborhood kid is carrying onto the schoolbus, but hey, to each his own. 

I have referenced this problem before, but now there's good news- the problem of knife crime is being curbed through the use of hundreds of airport-style metal detectors. We'll watch this one and see how the solution works, but I'm betting that this still remains a growing problem. Even if they reduce knife crime kids will probably turn to cricket bat crime or rugby scrum crime, and then how will they stop that.

Knife scanners at school gates to curb attacks (Guardian Unlimited)
Airport-style metal detectors will be installed at hundreds of school gates under sweeping measures to confront the growing problem of teenage knife crime.