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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 02 2018, @02:48AM

    by khallow (3766) on Saturday June 02 2018, @02:48AM (#687546) Journal

    Regulating sharpened tips of kitchen knives might go a long way toward curbing murders committed as crimes of passion (or causal homicide for that matter), where someone grabs a kitchen knife out of the drawer and takes a life.

    "Might" has a lot of overlap with "won't" here. I guess you just have to decide what is more important. Tens of millions of responsible UK citizens or a handful of irresponsible people who stab others because they got upset. Sure, maybe we could occasionally save a life now and then by doing this, but it'd be at the expense of one of the most important cultural things we do - prepare and eat food. It's just not worth it.

    I think one of the great failings of democratic societies is that they decide to ban things because there are stupid, violent, and sociopathic people in the world. What happens to all those people who aren't a problem? Why should they have to sacrifice just because a handful of others are a problem?