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: 3, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Friday June 01 2018, @05:02AM (1 child)
Contrariwise, they ARE deterred by -likelihood- of punishment (unless the intent is a swansong anyway i suppose)
As our societies become progressively complete surveillance states it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday June 01 2018, @05:24PM
Really? Your source for that claim? From what I've read most people commit crimes working on the assumption that they won't get caught - even bank robbers, a crime where the chance of getting caught already approaches 100%.
It's something like the Dunning-Kruger effect in action - every criminal assumes they're good enough to getaway with it. Or in the case of mass shooters and the like, many apparently have no intention of getting away with it - being caught or killed may even be part of their motivation.