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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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday June 01 2018, @02:35PM (4 children)
Well, sure! Clearly all this crime is the fault of those darned Normans! No, wait, it's the Anglo-Saxon and Danish invader's fault! No, it's the bloody Romans! No, wait, it's the Celts that moved in during the Iron Age, which is why we needed those hill forts!
Well, I guess they're kind of right, though: If there are no people in Britain, then no people will commit crimes in Britain.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @02:53PM (2 children)
You mock but welfare is the modern day Danegeld. Doesn't seem to be working this time either does it? So how about a full refund for however many millions in tax we've paid over the last two decades for the failures and lies of successive governments on immigration policy?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday June 01 2018, @07:15PM (1 child)
I don't know how it works in the UK, but at least in the US the immigrants in question are eligible for no welfare benefits whatsoever.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday June 01 2018, @08:06PM
Officially. Unofficially, meaning in the real world, in most places where illegals congregate it is illegal to ask an applicant's immigration status so they get the full panoply of welfare state benefits. Then they often buy a second fake ID and dip again using a co-conspirator's address.. as someone there uses their address for their second helping. Then they squat out an anchor baby and it legally gets everything, including the EITC bonanza because now they will report just enough of their income to qualify for the max payout.
Illegals almost never produce as much economic benefit as they cost in total welfare benefits. Businesses hiring illegals are simply transferring that cost to the taxpayers. We should therefore tax the hiring of an illegal at a rate sufficient to recapture that expense and turn the IRS loose on any who refuse to pay up. If a business really can pay an $8-12/hr tax on illegal labor then perhaps it really is a job Americans won't do vs what we have now, jobs we won't allow Americans to do because of minimum wage and other laws plus the welfare state discouraging work.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @06:20PM
Nitpick, the initial Celtic migrations were late Bronze Age, that is, assuming you can get them to make their minds up as to what actually constitutes a Celt in the first place (culture vs genetics).
As I've said before, these bloody Islands have gone downhill since those bloody Beaker People immigrants, coming over here, bringing their 'forn ways' and, err, beakers...