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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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• Re:First they come for the knives, then the abrasi Re:First they come for the knives, then the abrasi (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:50AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:50AM (#687096)

  The Monty Python 'self-defense against fruit' course is looking less and less like parody every day. Soon the Brits will only have bananas and passion fruit with which to defend themselves.

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• Re:First they come for the knives, then the abrasi (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @12:24PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @12:24PM (#687205)

  Soon the Brits will only have bananas and passion fruit with which to defend themselves.

  No, no, no, you forget... in the interests of those poor unfortunates here with allergies, they'll be banned as well..

  Can see The Sun headline now , Allergy Sufferer assaulted with peanuts..

  The local 'disposable' weapon of choice in my part of the UK is the good old half brick [available everywhere] in a strong carrier bag..

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