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The government will ban the sale of acids to anyone under the age of 18, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said.
Her pledge, made at the Conservative Party conference, comes after assaults using corrosive substances more than doubled in England since 2012.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41484909
Hmmm... not sure this will make much difference. Is it only U18's who commit these crimes? In any event, there's nothing to stop people over 18 buying them for their younger chavvy chums or prevent kids stealing acids etc. from their own households or anywhere else for that matter.
A better answer would be to increase the penalties possible for carrying and using such substances but that clearly won't solve the problem either.