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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:Slice and dice (Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday June 01 2018, @05:30PM

  by HiThere (866) on Friday June 01 2018, @05:30PM (#687340) Journal

  Unnh...I think your experience in the kitchen is rather limited. Admittedly there are lots of uses for which knives don't need points, but there are also many uses for which they do, or you need a separate tool that has the point at the end of a long stiff bar with a sharp edge near the tip.

  Opening packaging and jointing meat are two of the uses. (And for jointing meat the separate tool would be really inconvenient.)

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