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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, @05:37PM (8 children)
You have the slippery slope all wrong. You've slipped on it, and slid to the bottom. The slippery slope is in believing that ANY weapons need to be outlawed, confiscated, or otherwise dealt with.
Let's just outlaw the outlaws. Imprison some for life, and execute the rest.
But, today's western societies have no stomach for doing those ugly, necessary chores that need to be done. Instead of flushing the toilet, collectively, we just sit around, breathing the stench.
Execute murderers, and be done with them. Put rapists (real rapists) in prison for a few decades. Execute the most brutal rapists.
Let me be clear about this. JUST KILL THE SONS OF BITCHES AND THEY WILL NO LONGER BE A PROBLEM!! Not only will they not be a problem, but the wannabe gangstas will think again before following in the dead man's steps.
Let's man up, and do the jobs that men are supposed to do.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Friday June 01 2018, @07:53PM (7 children)
This!
Civilization is not for pussies. It takes hard men to forge one and then they are disposed of and pussies seem to always end up in charge with predictable results.
Hard times create hard men.
Hard men create good times.
Good times create soft men.
Soft men create hard times.
Repeat, once more with feeling!
Over and effing over throughout history we see the wheel spin around and around. Enough. We now have weapons that are too deadly for this crap. The monkey stuff has to end in age where the monkeys have fusion bombs. Time for hard men to rise before the Kaboom, seize the levers of power and reorder society in a way that will prevent the pussies from destroying civilization. Read anonymousconservative's r/K theory, read the Tytler Cycle theory, do some damned science for a change and end this nonsense.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 01 2018, @08:25PM (6 children)
Your "hard men" appear to be trying to start World War III. You somehow always managed to get this stuff precisely backwards. I suspect your "hard men" actually have a hard time (hurr) getting hard, and are compensating for something...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 01 2018, @11:48PM (5 children)
Nah. Don't seem likely. I mean look back at JFK. He was hard enough to say "Fuck it. If we go down, everyone goes down." and it pretty much killed the cold war right there except for some much less dangerous posturing that Reagan polished off. For the most part, people and governments tone down their bullshit when you make it abundantly clear (and can back it up) that there are zero paths to anything but overwhelming destruction for you and anyone who looks like you if you don't cut that shit out.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 02 2018, @04:34AM (4 children)
To which the hardline mullahs and other religious fanatics reply, "Bring it on, you perfidious infidel second-cousins-of-syphilitic-camels! Allah will reward any martyr with Paradise!" Now stop and realize that our Dominionists are one tiny step away from being the Christian version of the very same ideology, and indeed several are trying to fulfill Biblical prophecy with their Middle East agenda.
"Hard men" is another way of saying "stupid, inflexible, reactionary, and dogmatic."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday June 02 2018, @11:38AM (3 children)
Naw. "Hard men" just means men willing to do whatever is necessary without flinching. There's no reason stupidity has to be present in any greater quantity than in the general population (which I'll admit is a pretty high concentration). Religious fanatics aren't much of a worry though. There aren't currently any capable of seriously threatening the US. Even if there were, the guys calling the shots for them tend to be more pragmatic than your average loony. They had to be to get to the top. Pragmatism generally tells people not to fight a fight it's impossible to win or even make a good showing in.
We do have quite a lot more of it floating around places of power than we tend to give credit to as well; you can tell by how almost no nation ever deliberately picks a fight that would well and truly suck for it. Take Pakistan and India for instance. They hate the living shit out of each other, have nukes, and never get up to anything more than spit ball fights.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 02 2018, @07:13PM (2 children)
There is an assumption here that "whatever is necessary" is known at the time. These "hard men" might not know it, and as time goes on and international relations get more complicated, there's less chance of them knowing. How many times has Armageddon been averted by someone making the "soft" choice *not* to fire missiles at what appears to be an incoming salvo?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @12:03AM
Oh Azuma... That's not the soft choice, it's not the choice of a coward going along to get along. [theguardian.com] You'll often be reprimanded for making the correct decision and all social progress has relied on people cutting against the grain. That doesn't mean everyone cutting against the grain is making social progress, it does mean "toxic masculinity" in the broad use is utter bullshit.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:22AM
What's necessary isn't just known, it's usually blindingly obvious. That's beside the point though. If "hard men" were as dangerous as you seem to think, we'd be up to World War 3^96 by now instead of trying to avoid 3. Willingness != eagerness.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.