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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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God grant me the senility to accept the things I cannot change,
The frustration to try to change things I cannot affect,
and the wisdom to tell the difference.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 20 2020, @10:55PM
Not an analogy. Just a hint that the existence of a tip is not relevant by itself, need to be taken within a context of the usability of the tip.
Trying to use a cleaver's "tip" (more like a corner) to stab is almost useless - unless you need just shallow cuts.
Slicing garlic cloves works for me much better with a thin blade, the tip is irrelevant.
But I do see the value of a sharp tipped scalpel when I'm slipping in the chair in front of my electronics workstation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0