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

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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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday June 01 2018, @05:25AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Friday June 01 2018, @05:25AM (#687112) Journal

    The Bard said it best:

    LAERTES
    It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain.
    No medicine in the world can do thee good.
    In thee there is not half an hour of life.
    The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
    Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice
    Hath turned itself on me. Lo, here I lie,
    Never to rise again. Thy mother’s poisoned.
    I can no more. The king, the king’s to blame.

    The king is to blame, and we should get to work bating those blades, an un-envenoming them. Seriously. And avoid English (or wait, isn't this Danish?) wine.

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