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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @06:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @06:12AM (#687126)

    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.

    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.