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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says

posted by martyb on Friday June 01 2018, @04:04AM   
from the pointed-question dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/27/knives-sharp-filing-solution-soaring-violent-crime-judge-says/

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Original Submission

• Re:No, but can we outlaw... (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:46AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:46AM (#687092)

  ...bullshit false-equivalence "hurr hurr lookit duh stoopid knife grabbers hurr hurr whatcha gunna doo, outlaw spoons duhhrrrrr" like this?

  Just a thought. Both are deadly at close range, but it takes a hell of a lot less skill to kill someone further away than arm's length with a spoon than a knife. And spoons, dull edges in general, have many more uses. Knives are tools as well, but they have very specific uses and niches depending on what kind they are, and most of those are "kill things."

  Here's an idea: how about we have the same level of registration, tracking, etc, for knives as for cars? Those also kill a hell of a lot of people.

  Thanks for being so meta :)

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