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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 Monday January 20 2020, @04:38AM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 20 2020, @04:38AM (#945656)

    banning knives gets you makeshift knives or screwdrivers or acid or fingers in the eye.

    Now don't go giving them any more ideas!

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