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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, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @05:46AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @05:46AM (#687117)

    It used to be that you could legally settle a dispute by combat.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_combat [wikipedia.org]

    These days, you can't even fight a criminal who has violently invaded your home. Fighting the criminal will get you a huge prison sentence.

    How far a once great nation has fallen!

    I suggest they simply adopt all the law of Texas or Florida. The UK has messed up their own law so badly that they need to fork off of something decent.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @11:48AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @11:48AM (#687191)

    These days, you can't even fight a criminal who has violently invaded your home. Fighting the criminal will get you a huge prison sentence.

    It is a weasel way to perform death sentence to incarcerated criminals without putting it in written law: you find a "volunteer" who demonstrated he takes no shit from nobody, and you let him lose in the pen among the crimos.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 01 2018, @01:56PM (3 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday June 01 2018, @01:56PM (#687235) Homepage
      So, how long are you giving Tommy Robinson? You know they'll make him share a cell with a muslim extremist or three eventually... (Because they've already done it at least once, see his Rebel Media talk.)
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @03:29PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @03:29PM (#687273)

        Racist! People can't help being muslim!

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 01 2018, @05:48PM (1 child)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 01 2018, @05:48PM (#687351) Homepage Journal

          I hadn't thought about it in that way. No, a Muslim can't help being Muslim, because, if he quits, the rat bastards gang up and kill him!

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