> Clearly it is time to ban knives longer than 2” in the UK. <
Some folks in the UK are actually moving in another direction. There has been serious talk about banning pointy knives. Pointy knives, bad. Blunt knives, good.
https://reason.com/2019/10/07/the-u-k-must-ban-pointy-knives-says-church-of-england/
Because when Muslims behead their daughters for drinking coffee in a shop where men are baristas, they do so by repeatedly jabbing the point in.