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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: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 01 2018, @09:38AM (5 children)
(yeah, right, believe what you've been told in spite of examples to the contrary)
There's no such knife for a chef. True, most of the operations can be done with a chef knife, but not all (yes, fruit carving is an example).
And your assertion doesn't answer to the example of Chinese chefs mainly preferring a cleaver.
On the other side, I don't know what i'd chose: being stabbed with a chef's knife or hacked with a cleaver.
This last bit is to say banning an everyday used tool only because it might be used as a weapon is stupid beyond limits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 01 2018, @10:47AM (2 children)
Time for some science then. This is exactly the kind of question the scientific method excels at answering.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Friday June 01 2018, @01:12PM (1 child)
Direct experimentation doesn't work, I tried. Sometimes I prefer being stabbed, other times I like hacking better.
It boils down to psychology, and we all know that's not a science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @03:09PM
Perhaps its seasonal. For some reason hacking seems like more of a winter thing and stabbing a summer thing. Perhaps due to hacking firewood? You may be more depressed in the winter due to lack of UV and more pumped up in the summer due to ad lib exposure to it.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday June 01 2018, @12:48PM (1 child)
Amateurs. You'd obviously go with a filleting knife.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 01 2018, @03:38PM
I like that in a psycho!