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posted by martyb on Sunday January 19 2020, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the pointed-comments dept.

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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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:54PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:54PM (#945488)

    Someone could just as easily hole themselves up in a Las Vegas hotel and throw knives at 500 concert goers. Could easily happen. There's fundamentally no difference between guns and knives. That's why the military only uses knives. Cheaper and just as effective as guns.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by zion-fueled on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:01PM (1 child)

    by zion-fueled (8646) on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:01PM (#945495)

    Someone can easily make a bomb or just drive through the crowd. And they have... none of that matters when there is agenda to push.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @04:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @04:47PM (#945882)

      So why don't we see school bombings or school drive-thrus on the news every day? They should be happening just as often as shootings according to your logic.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @09:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @09:08PM (#945974)

    let's not drag the FBI's Fake Terrorist Factory into discussions about crimes the public/invaders commit.