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posted by martyb on Friday June 01 2018, @04:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the pointed-question dept.

A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.

Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.

[...] He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.

[...] He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/27/knives-sharp-filing-solution-soaring-violent-crime-judge-says/


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 01 2018, @03:45PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 01 2018, @03:45PM (#687285) Homepage Journal

    I'm a believer in the rifling of a .45. Did you know that you can probably roll a watermelon down the barrel of a Thompson? Anyone who has ever stared down that .45 caliber barrel, uncertain whether it would be fired or not, will probably agree.

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