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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @05:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @05:52AM (#687595)

    Cotton buds lead to so many clogged ears, they should be banned.

    Indeed, back in the early '80s I used to get a number of freebie aviation and defence industry 'trade magazines', I always remember the medical column in one of the aviation magazines where the doctor writing it railed against these buggers for precisely this reason, citing the number of times he'd found serious blockages consisting of earwax/cotton fibres in the ears of significant numbers of pilots during their annual CPL medical examinations as good cause for banning them.
    It's a well known problem to the medical profession and probably a very common cause of undiagnosed hearing issues for a large number of people out there who've been 'conditioned' into thinking that these things are the only/best way to clean out their ears, so you'd think that they'd have already banned the things for this reason alone.
    Unfortunately, this proposed ban is only for the cotton buds with the plastic shafts, not the wood or rolled paper ones.