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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: 3, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Monday June 04 2018, @07:01PM
100% correct. The underlying problems are real, ignored, and swept under the rug with a cry of "guns kill people." There is something about US that makes people angry, and makes insane people become totally unhinged. I've lived here for 25 years, and I don't know exactly what the reason is, I have identify just some hypothetical reasons, but nothing concrete.
One idea I do have is that I think some people just can't handle too much freedom. That is the freedom others have, which leads to others succeeding, and makes you angry and jealous. Because freedom to succeed means your failures are entirely your own, and not something to do with a vast system which leaves you helpless. Lot of people simply cannot accept that level of self-critical responsibility, and will go to great lengths to externalize their problems.
Another problem is total lack of real mental health facilities, for various reasons. Unless you are eating your own poop nonstop, you will not be committed to an extended stay. So we have tons of borderline people out and about.
Only solution for either one would be to identify and willfully rob these people of their freedoms, which might work but I am unsure is the right thing to do, as it would lead to possible abuses against people who are not a danger to others. In the good old days of Communist Utopia behind the Iron Curtain, people who opposed the regime were routinely diagnosed with mental problems and taken to a mental health facility. The town (20000 residents) which I grew up in had no hospital (there was one in neighboring town 10km away), but it had one of these mental health facilities, which is quite telling. Of course there was no mass shootings, and only murder that I could recall happened some 25 years before I was born. I guess some people wouldn't mind that level of security, but I am not one of them.