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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?
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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by jmorris on Friday June 01 2018, @07:39PM
You really can't point to the modern U.S. death penalty and say anything about whether the death penalty is a deterrent. If you commit a crime there is really no way of knowing ahead of time if you will receive it, if you do there is no way to know if or when it will be carried out other than to say it will take a minimum of a decade from crime to punishment but it could just as easily take thirty years. Nobody who is likely to be deterred by the punishment is likely to still be in their prime crime years by the time a criminal is executed. All of this is explicitly by the design of the anti-death penalty forces. Read their writings.
Now imagine a functioning criminal justice system where the penalties for crimes was crystal clear, capture highly likely and punishment known to be swift and certain. We do not need to run the experiment, only open a history book. It worked. It would work again because people haven't changed in a Century.