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Sheffield-based company Viners has produced the "Assure" range, square-ended knives which are "shaped to reduce and prevent injuries, accidents and fatalities." With knife crimes in England and Wales at their highest in a decade, a 3% increase on last year and the highest level since 2009, this new knife is intended to not be used in crimes and only in the kitchen. While anti-stabbing messages have been left on fastfood containers and a crackdown on knife crime has been tried, for which included limiting the sale of knives, so far nothing has blunted the knife based problem.
When have social problems been solved by technical solutions?
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spagmumps, n.:
Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items.
-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @08:40PM (9 children)
Look at this racist stuff they printed
- The scaling back of “stop and search” because it’s “racist”.
– The ongoing emasculation of UK police forces who are being trained that mean words and ‘hate crime’ is more important than people dying.
– Fatherless black homes.
– UK street gangs becoming more violent to compete with immigrants from countries like Congo and Somalia.
– The ongoing mass importation of people from violent countries in general.
– Drill rap music that encourages young people to commit murder.
– Political leaders like Sadiq Khan refusing to even admit there’s a problem to protect their own pathetic legacies.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:07PM (2 children)
Not to mention the country is crawling with super-violent limeys! Football Hooligans! Angled Saxophones! And Royals. Maybe it is time to have England just exit the rest of the planet, we could build a wall around it. And have
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:09PM (1 child)
And have "Local shops, for local people!" [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Monday January 20 2020, @09:25AM
We didn't burn him!
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:06PM (1 child)
Uh... you know the Brits invaded just about every other country in the world? I think the violence was already there.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday January 20 2020, @08:26PM
The Brits also invaded themselves too: England conquered Wales, Ireland, and Scotland* on its way to building an empire. And long before then, England itself was a punching-bag for the Angles, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans...
*That last one was clinched with a bit of economic warfare and blackmail, IIRC.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:35PM
Theresa May ignored a Home Office paper [telegraph.co.uk] making the case that the reason more black males were stopped was because most of the men on the street in black areas happened to be black.
According to David Lammy [bbc.co.uk]
"In the last 10 years, since the Somalis and the Congolese came to London, they taught us a whole new level of violence". [standard.co.uk]
"An influx of immigrants from violent countries is contributing to gang warfare, police have warned". [standard.co.uk]
Many offenders have previous convictions for carrying a knife and the sentences are not harsh enough. We now have random attacks [twitter.com] even against children. [bbc.co.uk] Like the Muslim child grooming scandal, the "PC police" are part of the problem. What we need is good old fashioned 6ft tall police - with truncheons.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:47PM
Seems that the "brave" Americans want to be protected by police.
Those stiff lip Poms? They fight back [wikipedia.org].
As a note: the number of victims is still lower than in the case of a mass shootings carried out by mentally deranged in US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kazzie on Monday January 20 2020, @10:28AM (1 child)
TFA does read like the author has a bit of an agenda in mind.
A look at the the site's Latest News [summit.news] section currently includes:
An interesting selection, to say the least.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @12:01PM
It's an article / web site by Paul Joseph Watson (infowars / prison planet). A former guyliner, nail polish enthusiast and conspiracy nerd turned centre right populist. He's a political commentator, not a journalist - not that mainstream journalism is anything other than political activism anymore.