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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:Slice and dice Re:Slice and dice (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday June 01 2018, @12:48PM (1 child)

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday June 01 2018, @12:48PM (#687211) Journal

  On the other side, I don't know what i'd chose: being stabbed with a chef's knife or hacked with a cleaver.

  Amateurs. You'd obviously go with a filleting knife.

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  Washington DC delenda est.

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• finesse (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 01 2018, @03:38PM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Friday June 01 2018, @03:38PM (#687281) Journal

  I like that in a psycho!

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