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

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: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 01 2018, @04:26PM (1 child)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday June 01 2018, @04:26PM (#687302)

    until non-British/Irish/Scottish people started coming in

    Technically Irish and Scottish are subsets of British. The British Isles is the entire island chain. So pick one of

    until non-British people started coming in

    until non-English/Welsh/Irish/Scottish people started coming in

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 01 2018, @08:07PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday June 01 2018, @08:07PM (#687424) Journal

    Ye ken well what I mean, lad. Yer bum's oot the windae wiv that one.

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