British Judge Calls for Banning the Sale of Large, Pointed Kitchen Knives

PJ Media ^ | 05/29/2018 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

The UK is in the midst of an epidemic of knife attacks so, naturally, the idea is being floated to ban them.

Crown Court Judge Nic Madge said in a speech that there should be a nationwide program to file down the points of large kitchen knives and to ban their sale.

Telegraph:

Judge Madge told the assembled  judges, barristers and court staff: “These offences often seem motiveless - one boy was stabbed because he had an argument a couple of years before at his junior school.”

He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.

He said: “A few of the blades carried by youths are so called ‘Rambo knives’ or samurai swords. They though are a very small minority.

"The reason why these measures have little effect is that the vast majority of knives carried by youths are ordinary kitchen knives. Every kitchen contains lethal knives which are potential murder weapons.

"Accordingly, it is very easy for any youth who wants to obtain a knife to take it from the kitchen drawer in his home or in the home of one of his friends.”

Why stop at banning kitchen knives? Let's get to the root of the problem and ban kitchens.

[Zathras]

In before the banana sketch

[mowowie]

Gonna ban rocks next?

[DaveA37]

The judge needs to take a look around and see what “sharp objects” are out there, hundreds of such potential weapons. Grinding off the tips of a table or steak knife is NOT going to reduce weapons used in assaults. How about hammers, screw drivers, nails, broken glass, etc. The list goes on and on. How about making the penalties more still and actually sentencing those who break the laws?

[Nevadan]

Yes. Rocks, frying pans, hammers, bottle of wine to follow.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What about machetes, hammers, crowbars, hatchets, axes, chainsaws, bows and arrows, pellet guns?

[DoodleBob]

[Rurudyne]

Good call!

[pepsionice]

What you have brewing is just plain public anger. It’s growing across dozens of cultures and societies on the isle. You go and review violent crime in urban areas, and everyone brings up stories.

The Article Ten business, and lack of free speech is just one of a dozen brewing problems. BREXIT, the healthcare system, foreigners in the country, disbelief in both the Tories and Labor to fix anything, and a growing divide from the London crowd and the rest of the country. Disrespect is now a daily problem which politics can’t fix.

[robroys woman]

You can sharpen the edge of your credit card and use it to slit people’s throats. They should ban credit cards.

[T. P. Pole]

Frying pans! Who knew!

[Chode]

Right!!! Well then... henceforth, all things sharp will be banned, and all things pointy shall also be banned, and anything that is sharp AND pointy is right out!!!

Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!

Well, lets see... that about cover it then???

[tet68]

You left out shrubbery.

Nict, Nict I say!

[sevlex]

Time to ban pointy-headed British judges.

[tet68]

You can do that? I’ll have to try.

[New Perspective]

This reminds me of the scene in the movie “The Darkest Hour”, there was one guy who wanted to meet with Italy as a moderator between the UK and Hitler to see what Hitler’s price was for peace. Capitulation will get you killed.

[robroys woman]

You can do that? I’ll have to try.

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Fine, but do it in London. ;)

[robroys woman]

You can do that? I’ll have to try.

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BTW, it works best if you give it a nice serrated edge.

[mewzilla]

Point-ed sticks!

[The Toll]

British Judge declares everything illegal, except Muslim Rape.