"I believe the amnesty will only reduce knife attacks by a fraction.However, after seeing the weapons collected, I'm glad it happened." -Shola, 17, London
"Surely if you didn't want your knife anymore and didn't want to getinto trouble, couldn't you put it back in the kitchen, or throw itaway?" - Hannah, 17, Wolverhampton
"I don't think that the amnesty will reduce knife crime because i t isgenerally the people who are most likely to use them who are the leastlikely to hand them in." - Hamish, 15, Cornwall
"The knife amnesty was great as it gave people a chance to stripthemselves of their past and start afresh." - Hamza, 11,Westcliffe-on-Sea
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