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?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by zion-fueled on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:57PM
First they banned guns, now it's onto knives. It's the exact same story too. Anti knife marches, ridiculous laws and harassment of the law abiding population: eg, workman getting arrested for knives used on the job.
While it takes some effort to make your own firearms, knives are super simple. Every idiot can make one. Something tells me this won't go as well as they hope it will. What I take from this is a cautionary tale in letting the nannies have their way with your personal protection. The laws will never be enough and the criminals will run free while they punish YOU.