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British Doctors Call for Ban on Long Kitchen Knives to End Stabbings
Frontpage Mag ^ | 12/27/12 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/27/2012 9:09:36 AM PST by Nachum

The good news is that if we ever do get that assault rifle ban, followed by a handgun ban, followed by a ban of anything that can shoot bullets, the “Banners” will still have a banner year of banning all the other ways with which people kill other people.

Violent crimes haven’t gone away with the UK’s gun control. They’ve actually gone up.

Britons suffer 1,158,957 violent crimes per year, which works out at 2,034 per 100,000 residents. The U.S., meanwhile, has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, which is lower than France’s, at 504

Instead of gun crime, the UK worries about knife crime. And has been practicing knife control.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ban; banglist; british; bullystate; doctors; guncontrol; idiots; knifecontrol; knives; morons; nannystate; numbskulls; policestate; secondamendment
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To: Nachum

41 posted on 12/27/2012 10:18:47 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I couldn’t stab anyone with the one kitchen “knife” that I use. But I could dismember someone with one swing of my razor sharp Japanese cleaver! Great utensil! Use it for everything.


42 posted on 12/27/2012 10:32:11 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Nachum

bkmk


43 posted on 12/27/2012 10:45:14 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: alloysteel

Cricket bats, undoubtedly.

Now criminals are going to have to sharpen their forks.


44 posted on 12/27/2012 10:50:21 AM PST by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: bunkerhill7

Unfortunately, women in England don’t get manicures. I’ve never found a salon in that country no matter how hard I tried.


45 posted on 12/27/2012 10:52:10 AM PST by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Nachum

And what ALWAYS precedes someone being stabbed with a long knife? A bad thought. We need to ban bad thoughts.


46 posted on 12/27/2012 11:01:25 AM PST by Cyman
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To: Nachum

What about pointed sticks?


47 posted on 12/27/2012 11:02:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Still Thinking
Or 16 Ton weights?


48 posted on 12/27/2012 11:03:47 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Nachum; Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; ...

Those funky Brits.

Nanny State PING!


49 posted on 12/27/2012 11:08:11 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Nachum; Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; ...

Those funky Brits.

Nanny State PING!


50 posted on 12/27/2012 11:09:00 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Merry Christmas!)
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To: alloysteel

Ban stupid politicians........


51 posted on 12/27/2012 11:13:51 AM PST by Osage Orange ( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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To: Nachum
Psycho
52 posted on 12/27/2012 11:17:00 AM PST by SC DOC
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To: MamaDearest

Screwdrivers.


53 posted on 12/27/2012 11:18:12 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: alloysteel

Tree branches.


54 posted on 12/27/2012 11:18:52 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Pride in the USA

Interesting read.


55 posted on 12/27/2012 11:27:08 AM PST by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: Nachum

We can’t ban human nature. If not guns, then knives. Then baseball or cricket bats. Then maybe rocks.

Violence is in the heart, not the hand. *sigh*


56 posted on 12/27/2012 11:29:50 AM PST by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: sauropod

mark


57 posted on 12/27/2012 11:32:26 AM PST by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: Pining_4_TX

For croquet, you could always opt for flamingos, but then the British SPCA would get involved.


58 posted on 12/27/2012 11:37:54 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Nachum

My grandmother (Dad’s side) used a long-bladed kitchen knife to chop veggies. I didn’t get stabbed even once. :-)


59 posted on 12/27/2012 12:01:08 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Nachum

Predictible.


60 posted on 12/27/2012 12:07:25 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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