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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: 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.