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UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges

posted by martyb on Sunday January 19 2020, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the pointed-comments dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kazzie on Monday January 20 2020, @10:28AM (1 child)

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 20 2020, @10:28AM (#945736)

    TFA does read like the author has a bit of an agenda in mind.

    A look at the the site's Latest News [summit.news] section currently includes:

    • "The Dumpster Fire of Western Masculinity"
    • "40% of Countries in the World to Experience Civil Unrest in 2020"
    • "Human Rights Watch: China Is 'Existential Threat' to Global Freedom"
    • "Middle Schooler Threatened With Suspension Over 'Virginity Rocks' Sweatshirt"
    • "Goldman Sachs 87 Per Cent Sure Trump Will Be Re-Elected"
    • "British Police Failed to Stop Muslim Grooming Gang Due to Fears Over 'Community Tensions'"
    • "Dental Assistant Fired For Expressing Support For Trump on Facebook"
    • "Pelosi Signed Articles of Impeachment With Pens That Looked Like Bullets".

    An interesting selection, to say the least.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @12:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @12:01PM (#945755)

    It's an article / web site by Paul Joseph Watson (infowars / prison planet). A former guyliner, nail polish enthusiast and conspiracy nerd turned centre right populist. He's a political commentator, not a journalist - not that mainstream journalism is anything other than political activism anymore.