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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: 2) by EvilSS on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:01PM (5 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:01PM (#945494)

    Unless they ban knives with pointy tips this is stupid.

    There are calls to do just that. https://www.google.com/search?q=pointed+knife+ban&oq=pointed+knife+ban [google.com]

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Monday January 20 2020, @12:40AM (4 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Monday January 20 2020, @12:40AM (#945577)

    They don't need to ban knives, they need to learn statistics. There's been a recent uptick in knife crimes after an unusual low a few years back, but overall it's about average. I can't find specific data for knife crimes, but here's the forty-year figures for violent crime [ons.gov.uk]. This is regression to the mean, not something that a knife ban will do anything about.

    Sells a lot of papers and makes for great political point-scoring though.

    • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday January 20 2020, @04:36AM

      by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 20 2020, @04:36AM (#945655)

      Sells a lot of papers and makes for great political point-scoring though.

      Well, yea, after all that's what's really important.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @08:57PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @08:57PM (#945966)

      So what you're saying is that the native whites were getting more civilized, and now the Jewish NGOs and the treasonous government have brought in all the "migrants" and now the rate is going up.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @10:53PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @10:53PM (#946047)

        Shhh, we don't let people say that out loud. Talk about how "multiculturalism has enriched the city" and "strength through cultural diversity" and "BAME involvement in city life is welcome".

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:26AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:26AM (#946212)

          No, you are perfectly allowed to say thst out loud. You simply don't because you don't want people correctly applying labels to yourself. If you were truly free thinkers confident in their worldview then you wouldn't be such cowards. Of course being a coward is a natural part of bigotry, a secret insecurity externalized on to others in order to feel superior.

          If you had real convictions you would advocate your world view all over. Put it in your public profile, not hide your real feelings when politics comes up at work. But you know you would become a social pariah that everyone thinks is hateful and ignorant. So cowardice it is, post your hate pseudo-anonymously, and complain bitterly about your social exile as if your human rights are being trampled. All while having zero awareness of the irony, or the privilege that allows you to do so.

          Ultimate entitlement, and again more irony.