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Sheffield-based company Viners has produced the "Assure" range, square-ended knives which are "shaped to reduce and prevent injuries, accidents and fatalities." With knife crimes in England and Wales at their highest in a decade, a 3% increase on last year and the highest level since 2009, this new knife is intended to not be used in crimes and only in the kitchen. While anti-stabbing messages have been left on fastfood containers and a crackdown on knife crime has been tried, for which included limiting the sale of knives, so far nothing has blunted the knife based problem.
When have social problems been solved by technical solutions?
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UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday January 19 2020, @11:55PM
You went 10 years back and quoted one non-lethal attack by a crazy person. Try finding a few news pieces about criminals robbing and killing people with those knives. Not saying you won't find any. But the thing is, concealment wise, they make a poor choice for a criminal.
Regardless, my only point was that there's some billion or so people out there working just fine with tip-less Chinese chef knives and that it's quite possible there's more Chinese chef knives being used in professional settings than western chef knives.
Personally I think the whole thing is just something local UK cutlery companies lobbied for to drive off foreign imports from the store shelves much like the ban on Chinese AKs if you're familiar with gun legislation history in the US so when people go to look for new silverware, they'll only find British brand on the shelf. It's just the sort of pathetically ineffective and ridiculous protectionism that you'd expect from the British.
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