@woo@fosstodon.org @confusedMiddleAgedDad@mastodon.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social that would make sense as I sometimes read old newspapers from my region (there's local history websites that publish bits of them) and if folk were getting stabbed all the time over petty disputes the offenders would be up before the Assizes just as they end up in Crown Court today! However in Essex even later middle aged white men have to be wary of carrying points and blades, a fair few *have* been stopped following incidents in Colchester and Clacton where men in their 70s have fought in car parks (some with weapons!)