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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 Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 21 2020, @03:31AM
Yikes, so sociopaths are even more common than I thought? That explains a hell of a lot.
Where were you going with that last paragraph though? That seems like some kind of underhanded sneak attack following some complete non-sequitur. If you have something to say to me, say it outright. And, as you've said, careful where that finger points...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...