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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: 2) by Subsentient on Friday June 01 2018, @11:37AM (1 child)

    by Subsentient (1111) on Friday June 01 2018, @11:37AM (#687190) Homepage Journal

    Well, this, this is stupid. Really stupid.

    People are the problem. Seems like everywhere you go, politics are insane. At least with guns you can say "they are only meant for killing", so there's a slightly stronger argument. (I'm pro-2nd amendment)

    Filing down knives. Really.

    That's what I call a dystopia.

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  • (Score: 2) by AssCork on Friday June 01 2018, @01:40PM

    by AssCork (6255) on Friday June 01 2018, @01:40PM (#687231) Journal

    they are only meant for killing

    Tisk, tisk.

    A hammer is meant to multiply force proportional to the amount of energy expended to wield it.
    A knife, being a wedge, is meant to separate things.
    A fire arm is designed to deliver a metal fragment, at high speed, to it's intended target.
    The skill of which is an olympic sport [wikipedia.org], no less.

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