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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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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday June 01 2018, @06:08AM (3 children)
By that logic we would need to register handguns and knives but not rifles or shotguns. If we want to do rifles and shotguns we also need to register fists and bats.
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday June 01 2018, @06:17AM (2 children)
These can also be used to wreak mayhem on the human body.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday June 01 2018, @05:28PM (1 child)
It's having to register rocks that worries me. Those things are everywhere, I'll never get all the paperwork done.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday June 02 2018, @12:00AM
However it will create a lot of jobs, at least until it's automated.
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