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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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UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:36PM (4 children)
Correct. One of the first things we invented as a species was the pointy stick.
I've been carrying a pocket knife any time I had pants on since I was a six year old Cub Scout and never cut anyone but myself with it. Yes, in school. Yes, in church. Yes, even on airplanes. The last was even post-911. It never even occurred to me to not have a knife in my pocket, so I threw it in the change tray with everything else in my pockets and put it back after they utterly failed to notice it in there. Hell, I didn't even notice myself until I was putting it back in my pocket.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Monday January 20 2020, @03:59PM (1 child)
You too? I wasn't a cub scout / boy scout, but I've had a knife for decades including in high school.
My post 9/11 pocket knife story is amusing enough. My spouse and I had to enter a federal building with a metal detector. I walked through the metal detector without thinking about my pocket knife. It did not go off. I probably just walked through too slowly for it to detect the metal in my pocket. Meanwhile, she had to put her purse through the x-ray machine where they found her pocket knife. She looked at me and said, "Go put this in the car for me." The underlying message being to also put my knife in the car too. Looking to avoid hassle by security theater, I did. But it was amusing that I could have gone right in while she couldn't despite us both having pocket knives.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 20 2020, @04:22PM
Another fun tidbit: The courts in my home county in OK don't like you going in with a knife sheathed on your belt but don't check anyone for knives or guns they can't obviously see in any way.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @04:25PM (1 child)
Hah... My little brother got expelled from high school (mid-2000s) because he had a pocket knife (they searched him claiming he "smelled like weed").
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 20 2020, @04:54PM
Most of the vehicles at the highschools I attended had a shotgun and a rifle in the gun rack right where everyone could see. It wasn't uncommon to see a guy come to school in full camo during deer season because he wanted to hunt right up until he had to go to school. That was both large city and itty bitty town. This institutional weapons paranoia today is nuttier than squirrel shit when viewed against what I experienced not even ten years before your example.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.