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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   
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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Original Submission

• Easy way to reduce knife crime (Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Friday June 01 2018, @10:45PM

  by darkfeline (1030) on Friday June 01 2018, @10:45PM (#687492) Homepage

  There's an easy way to reduce knife crime, just unban guns. Now all of your knife crime is gun crime. If you ban knives, all of your knife crime will now be shiv crime.

  People committing violent crime are going to find or make weapons, you can't ban all of them. Banning pointy knives is not going to make all would-be violent criminals into upstanding citizens.

  If you want to really fix crime, you have to reduce the number of people who are going to commit crime (but I hear that that's not politically correct in the UK).

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