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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 Re:Slice and dice (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday June 01 2018, @07:51PM (1 child)

  by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Friday June 01 2018, @07:51PM (#687416) Journal

  You want to rock with control? Get a mezzaluna or an ulu. And there's no need to a have a pointy chef's knife just to make it rock for chopping.

  (Note -- as I said below, there are lots of uses for long knives with points. Chopping with a rocking motion isn't really one that requires one.)

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• Re:Slice and dice (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 01 2018, @11:29PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday June 01 2018, @11:29PM (#687507) Homepage Journal

  There's only one way to rock.

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