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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: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @02:06PM (2 children)
Asshat who wants to violate the constitution, LAW OF THE LAND, gets modded Insightful?
If you do not like guns, don't buy them dumbass.
(Score: 2) by julian on Friday June 01 2018, @05:07PM (1 child)
If you do not like abortion, don't get them dumbass
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Sulla on Friday June 01 2018, @05:11PM
Guns and abortion are both used to kill another non-consenting person. The difference is that you are not required to pay for my firearm out of your pocket, while I am required to pay (in some states) for your abortion out of my pocket.
I am totally okay with free and legal abortion, but I will not be compelled to pay for it.
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