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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:18PM (#687296)

    a baseball bat, unless you've also got a baseball, etc. and are on the way to/from the park

    Ah yes, baseball, a game no-one plays locally (or much at all here in the UK - 0.035% of the population going by official guesstimates) yet the local JJB/Sportsdirect used to sell quite a number of the bats, funnily never the balls, just the bats...also, there's not a lot of cricket played up here in Scotland, it is played, but not by your typical Ned, again there's plenty of 'clicky-ba's' sold...the plausible deniability factor being quite a bit higher, and as we've a number of courses locally then there's always golf clubs...

    When I have to visit the shops nearest my house after dark (shops featured prominently in 'The Knowhere Guide' for my good town), I usually have my 2D LED Torch on me, mind you, as the last attack at the shops involved someone being sodomised with a sword it might not do me much good..

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @07:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @07:13PM (#687394)

    FWIF, this [bbc.co.uk] happened just down the hill from the shops mentioned above [soylentnews.org]