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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @08:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @08:20PM (#946520)

    Well since I was talking about achievements in the US like Black Wallstreet and simple individual success for families you're as usual off base. My Africa history knowledge is not great, but I'm betting the slave trade derailed a lot of their societal development for quite a while. Turning tribes against each other as slave trading mercenaries wouldn't be good for any society.

    But you want to put them in a bubble and blame their DNA for every bad thing that happened. Such blatant racist ignorance that ignores the history of "white" people. I know, you can use your racism against the dark skinned peoe and we'll use Hitler against you. Why you gotta be literally Hitler bro? Genocide is bad mmmkay?