Well since 2/3rds of our suicides (20K) are by gun and our suicide rate is comparable to yours, and since your murder rate in London has overtaken at least for the first two months of this year - our hellhole known as New York City, you seem well on your way to being a hellhole too.
Let us see what outlawing knives and rope does to your murder and suicide rates. I am pretty sure action in either area won't have much effect.
As the baton magnet Rodney King once said, "Can't we just get along?"
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