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