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UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:01PM (#945496)

    Wait a minute, are you telling me a cleaver is JUST as deadly as an assault knife (unnecessarily pointy tipped knife)?

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 20 2020, @02:19PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 20 2020, @02:19PM (#945819) Journal

    WTF is an "assault knife"? Maybe you can find a definition here - http://www.assaultweapon.info/ [assaultweapon.info]