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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:No, but can we outlaw... Re:No, but can we outlaw... (Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday June 01 2018, @05:28PM (1 child)

  by Immerman (3985) on Friday June 01 2018, @05:28PM (#687336)

  It's having to register rocks that worries me. Those things are everywhere, I'll never get all the paperwork done.

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• Re:No, but can we outlaw... (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday June 02 2018, @12:00AM

  by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Saturday June 02 2018, @12:00AM (#687519)

  However it will create a lot of jobs, at least until it's automated.

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