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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: 0, Troll) by DeVilla on Saturday June 02 2018, @01:07AM (3 children)
There's an understatement if ever there was one. What we need is sane car regulations. Who needs a car with over 10 gallons of gas? (And gas cans that hold more than 1 gallon) Gas stations are plentiful. We don't need any more astronauts trying to drive cross country to kill someone.
And why is it even legal to have a car that can go over 35 miles an hour? The the fastest you can go in reasonable traffic anyways. In the country they could go faster, but they don't need to. Any reasonable person traveling long distance is going to fly or take a bus or train. (Unless they are trying to get away with something.)
Then there's the whole issue of sports cars. Let's just admit they aren't necessary, only cater to the egos of car nuts and only ask for trouble. There's no excuse for automakers to be selling cars with a bunch of stuff like spoilers, turbos, blowers, slick tires, decals, flaming paint jobs, racing stripes, and a whole host of other things. I'm just not comfortable seeing someone driving one of those. I guess we can't stop people from adding them after market, but there's no reason for them to come out of the factory with all those sorts of things. It's a 2 ton piece of dangerous machinery, not a toy!
And don't get me started with autonomous cars. We don't need people sending driverless cars on the road to risk killing people with no accountability. We already have most cars out there with mufflers making it so you can't hear one sneaking up behind you. Why do we let people hide that they are racing around?
Of course none of this would be necessary if we'd just admit that there's no reason for individuals to own cars in the first place. A well maintained public transit system is all we really need. But no. We have all these gear head lunatics who "gotta have me mah wheels" because "the road" makes them feel "free". So we have to suffer the nut jobs racing around in there screaming metal genital augmentations.
You were saying something about false-equivalence with knives, right? But false-equivalence with cars should be good, right?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 02 2018, @04:12AM (2 children)
For the love of fuck, you waste so much time and energy and database space thinking this is destroying my point when it actually proves it...
Listen and listen closely: knives and cars have a tremendously larger scope of uses than specific types of firearms do. Transit is vital to the everyday functioning of the country. Sharp edges are *everywhere.* They have myriad purposes and nearly all of them are life-enhancing. Firearms have only a few purposes, and the ratio of good to bad ones is much smaller. It therefore behooves us to keep at least as close an eye on them as we do for cars.
This is not difficult. And you're not as witty as you think you are.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by DeVilla on Saturday June 02 2018, @04:41PM (1 child)
Ouch. I'm hurt
But you going off on people with their equivalence on banning gun & knives misses a point. When someone (like the UK) brings up banning guns because people use them to do bad things, someone else mentions they do bad things with other things and asks hypothetically "Are you going to ban knives next?" The person defending get blown off because "we all know nobody would be stupid enough to ban knives!"
Well, we get to see that's not true. With guns banned and the murder rate in London that rivals New York, powerful folks are now working hard to ban knives. Some folks deserve an "I told ya so" today.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 02 2018, @07:07PM
So the problem is stupidity then :/ No shit, Sherlock. The day we cure stupid is probably the day a nuclear world war starts...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...