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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, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @06:47PM
Well of course you are. I've noticed that the vast majority of people who wish to have their opinions carry weight in matters of gun control have no practical knowledge. I give their opinions as much consideration as I do when a garbage collector wants to make policy on brain surgery. When you fly in coach, do you try to tell the pilot how to manage the aircraft as well?
Over here, we have Constitutional and natural rights including those enshrined by the second amendment. Unfortunately, we also have idiots over here that believe that since they choose not to exercise their rights, nobody else should be able to either. There was a recent study that reported 20% of millennials wanted to use force to silence the rights of free speech among those they disagree with. If you want to start restricting rights, you might want to start with those people's suffrage rights.