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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?
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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday June 01 2018, @05:03AM (7 children)
Whoever put this under "Slash" should click on that icon and look at the stories there.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday June 01 2018, @05:28AM
More pionard, with an epee? Slashing is for maritime weapons, like the cutlass.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday June 01 2018, @01:28PM
Well I thought it was funny...
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 01 2018, @01:51PM (3 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 01 2018, @02:03PM (2 children)
Yup. I guess GP isn't very sharp.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @06:46PM (1 child)
Nice to see you taking the three Rs seriously!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 01 2018, @07:09PM
Your remark lacks cutting power. Hone your skills.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @03:31PM
Your sarcasm detection system failed. Please turn it off and back on then try again.