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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:06PM (1 child)
Uh... you know the Brits invaded just about every other country in the world? I think the violence was already there.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday January 20 2020, @08:26PM
The Brits also invaded themselves too: England conquered Wales, Ireland, and Scotland* on its way to building an empire. And long before then, England itself was a punching-bag for the Angles, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans...
*That last one was clinched with a bit of economic warfare and blackmail, IIRC.