A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.
Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.
[...] He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.
[...] He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:21AM
The end game of this is to restrict the sale of everything for weapon, pollution, or healthcare reasons. Start with various plants and chemicals, then guns, then plastic straws/bags/whatever, then knives, then soda and juice, then...