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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @05:55AM (2 children)
Canada already does. We'll give any idiot with a pulse a driver's license. With a ridiculously small amount of effort on the receivers part, we'll even give them a class 1 license [wikipedia.org], which allows them to drive semi-truck tractor-trailer vehicles and "kill a hell of a lot of people" with the Right of Weight on their side, to boot.
But a license to buy a gun (A PAL, "Possession and Acquisition License")? You have to fill out pages of forms, provide character references and all sorts of other background information (it's worse than getting a passport, for what that's worth), and then submit it all to the RCMP. Who will then take months and months to process it, actually contact all your references, and then maybe, perhaps, grant you the license to possess a long rifle. A bolt-action, magazine-capacity-limited-by-law long rifle. Not a handgun, mind you. Those are "Restricted", and need a separate PAL which means a multitude more hoops to jump through, along with an absurd number of silly laws to comply with.
Even the unrestricted PAL's come with a bunch of laws regarding storage and transport of the gun and it's ammunition. An intruder can break in to your home, threaten you with a weapon, be captured doing so on 1080p camera footage by your home security, lunge at you with said weapon and IF you shoot him.. you go to jail. Because the simple fact you were able to get to the gun, then get to the ammunition, then get it loaded in time to use it, means you broke half a dozen laws. If the bastard lives? He sues you. We're getting pretty good at following the american model up here. The lawyers always win.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @06:12AM
Not around here friend. If you are in the house and threaten the occupant, you have no rights. A couple years ago, there was a man that perforated and young melanin rich female that broke into his home looking to score some quick drug cash. She was unarmed but picked up a plate from a nearby table and threw it at him when he surprised her. Po po cleared him with self defense.
Just a couple weeks ago, a clerk iced an armed robber at a pizza restaurant. Saved the taxpayers a bundle on trial and incarceration. No charges filed.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @03:08PM
Unless the victim is First Nations [wikipedia.org], then the police will botch the investigation and fail at basic evidence collection procedure.