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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 DeVilla on Saturday June 02 2018, @04:41PM (1 child)

    by DeVilla (5354) on Saturday June 02 2018, @04:41PM (#687729)

    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

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday June 02 2018, @07:07PM (#687786) Journal

    So the problem is stupidity then :/ No shit, Sherlock. The day we cure stupid is probably the day a nuclear world war starts...

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