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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, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 01 2018, @05:25PM (6 children)
I like my idea better. Everyone is required to maintain a deadly weapon for self defense. No one is ever arrested, or charged, for possession of a weapon. I mean, no one.
My generation carried pocket knives to school when we were in elementary school. Third grade is generally the point at which little boys were trusted with knives. There were no school shootings in the newspapers back then. I guess the school shooters were afraid of us little third grade boys with knives.
Seriously, if it were known that every adult in the country packed a lethal weapon, how many assaults do you think would take place? Hell, the insults would drop to nothing - you never know when calling someone a name might result in being double tapped.
Arm everyone. An armed society is a polite society.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @06:28PM (5 children)
Ah ha!
The real reason revealed. "...you never know when calling someone a name might result in being double tapped."
Hmm, what kind of a person would use the threat of murder to stop a meany poopoo head from calling them names?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 01 2018, @08:07PM (4 children)
Someone with an extremely small penis. I mean, large ego. Maybe both? :D
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 01 2018, @11:39PM
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My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @01:13AM (2 children)
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 02 2018, @04:09AM (1 child)
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I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:44PM
Though you often claim to be a crack snacker, the fixation you have on the phallic seems to indicate your true desire. Do you secretly wish to be cured of your mental aberration? Perhaps you have a face that only a mother could love and even then only on payday. Is your life choice a choice of practical necessity?